South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-25
What A Woman Won't TeILB Helen Roroland
The idOuSL

We'll" remarked the bachelor.
reproachfully, nearly a whole
month has gone BY"
Gone BY whereby what-by
whom ?" queried the widow, drawing
of her long white gloves. and turn
ing to the mirror 10 fluff out her
hair under the chic little fur cap.
leone by you-by me-'by u.s."
returned the bachelor. Nearly a
whole month of Leap Year-and you
haven't said a single thing that I
could take seriously!"
The widow shrugged her graceful
shoulders.
Then you know just how a girl
| feels" she announced, picking up
the dinner-card. and scanning it un-
der the pink-shaded candle. when
man keeps her waiting-until she's
so worn out she Is ready 10 topple
right over into his arms! Do you
| fancy, Mr.. Watherby, that If want
ed to entice helpless, unsuspecting
bachelor into matrimony. l should
propose to him in Leap Year,
why not ?" complained the bache-
Tor, they tell me that all the women
are doing it this year. in England.
: Besides. lots OF girls have proposed
TO me-"
"Eut I notice that they never sue
ceeded in marrying you" retorted
the widow Leap Year always
makes a man leap-in the other di-
rection. 1t frightens him like a mo-
tor-horn close to his ear. If you
want TO marry him, you have TO
propose when he isn't suspecting."
AND yet" unused the bachelor.
thoughtfully toying with his oysters,
| from the way most married wom-
en- talk, you'd fancy their husbands
had dragged them TO the altar, after
a perfect cave-man pursuit."
"Oh yes" sighed the widow,
every woman likes to fancy that
her husband is a cave-man, and that
her Courtship was a wild, dashing,
Lochinvar affair. But. and she
paused suddenly, with her fork in
mid-air. did any married woman
ever tell you exactly how her hus-
band came to propose TO her or
exactly what he said?
The bachelor reflected.
Come 10 think OF it." he admit
ted, none Of them ever did"
"Of course mott" triumphantly.
because half the married women
can't remember how IL happened and
the other half don't want 10 remem-
Der. It's the one thing on earth
that a woman won't tell, What a
man says is so different from any
woman's idea of a proposal. that
half the time she doesn't recognize II
when il comes. She just wakes up
to find herself engaged
Don't you mean corrected the
bachelor. plaintively. that the wom-
an hnds herself engaged--and then,
the man wakes up?"
"Oh, of course a man never knows
why he marries," agreed the widow
frankly. It's all just a matter OF
blind accident to him-like being
born. or receiving q Christmas gift.
or inheriting a fortune. or having
appendicitis. He takes II as dis
pensation Of providence-and lets
1t 20 AT that"
lie has 10 take it." complained
the bachelor patheticaliy. When a
woman makes up her mind 10 marry
a man, she isn't going 10 let a little
thing like his opposition stand In
her way"
Getting married is easy, It's
getting courted that Is so difficult"
sighed the widow. do you remem-
Der the story or the widower who
was chided for his cheerfulness al
his wife's funeral? He admitted
that ne had gotten along perfectly
with his wife. and that she had beer
a good mother and a wonderful
housekeeper. and a devoted wife.