Evening star., 1944-01-05

"A girl VINO signs herself Anxious
Marie" wants to know how to make
a man propose. All! That's asking
and 1t takes bit of doing, as the
English say. 1t all depends upon
the personality of the man, for the
technique that might work like a
charm with Percival might fall fiat
as a pancake with Sam. Some men
like to do all Of the wooing, while
others have to be bribed, cajoled
inveigled, even shanghaied into say
ing: will you?" to q girl.
II you doubht this assertion, Just
reflect that you have never heard
any man tell how he proposed to
his wife. Nor have you ever heard
any woman tell how her husband
popped the question to her. That
is one secret that they bury in their
bosoms and that the rack and the
thumbscrews could not drag out of
them, so tits no use to ask grandpa
how he did it, nor to try to get a
few tips from grandma about how
she wangled an engagement ring out
of him.
Now, as has been herein aforesaid.
a girl must deal with man accord
ing to his nature and before she
wastes her time and effort trying to
pry out of him what the Scotch call
the hard words" she does we'll to do
a little serious thinking about what
manner Of chap he is. If he is a
glib love-maker who addresses her
at sight as Miss Beautiful and asks
her where she has been all these
years that he has never met her
when he was seeking his hearts S
ideal, she should let his sweet talk
go in one ear and out of the other.
He doesn't mean business. That is
Just his line and he doesn't expect
her to take it as anything except
pleasant conversation.
Neither should she put too much
stress on the love-making of the
perpetual peter who camps in her
parlor chairs and eats her mothers
good cooking, and says every en-
dearing thing to her except: Miss
Smithers-Mary-darling. may I as
sumo your board bill and shopping
ticket for life?" A girl may lead
that sort of chap up to the pro-
posing point, but he balks at the
edge Of it and it takes a lot of shov-
ing to push him over the brink.
Not to be confused with the per-
petual peter, however, is the dumb
lad who hangs fire in his love-mak-
ing because he loses his nerve when
he tries to tell Angelina about the
state Of his heart, and that he has
gotten raise in his salary, so what
about little bungalow built for
two? Time and again he braces
up to the point of asking
her to be his, but at the crucial
moment he chokes up on his Adams
apple and asks her if she doesn't
think we are having seasonable
weather for this time of the year.
OF course, the big moment of every
woman's life is when the boy friend
comes across with bona fide pro-
posal, and it is hard on her to miss
it. Nevertheless. Angelina is a smart
gal If she pretends to think that
some of his mumbling words were
a proposal and throws herself into
his arms and says: 20, John, this
is so sudden!' The woman who has
to help man along with his love-
making never has to worry about
his philandering. Once is enough
for him.
Much is to be said in favor Of the
absent treatment as a method OF
bringing men to the place where
they have to realize that they must
either put up or shut up. This is
particularly efficacious in those
cases where John and Sally have
gone together" as the phrase goes
ever since their kindergarten days.
1t is a pleasant arrangement that
permits John to monopolize all OF
Sally's time and attention and
thoughts without his having to sup
port her. This will 60 on indefinitely
unless Sally has the nerve to call
time on him, and this she can best
do by leaving him fiat. When he