Show 1 we very recent y in reading au article in which the writer very strongly and earnestly tha ahall the coming woman propose after remarking that society has but one law custom the writer shows that way back in the olden days somewhere about adams day it was eti buetto for mun to do alj the proposing then and for a number of years afterwards several thousand or more women looked upon as inferior to man now in un go and in a country that recognizes tho equality of the sexes the writer thinks that in justice women should bo given hio privilege of deliberately picking out husbands and ehe says of course it is a progressive woman that discusses the question that is a great mistake for a man to bo offended bv the woman who seeks him the question whether the coming woman should bo allowed to propose is doubtless a serious one to strong minded plain unattractive and dia cou raged women whose chances in tho matrimonial market ara extremely uncertain ordinary gentle wo manly women generally have more proposals than they care to remember and the truehearted true hearted girl seldom lacks opportunities ot marriage but probably if all the happily married people were to look back upon their lives and recall their own experiences they would be surprised to discover that the was not much proposing dor jid that somehow they camo to batand each other in the manner peculiar to tue lovers the world over men naturally aro of a suspicions and they ore likely to agger fix ate their own matrimonial value under any social code if however there happened to be the least chance of their being sought in marriage they would immediately become as wary and as retiring as the mountain goat the whole fabric of society could be gr enviously evious ly rent and all sorts of complications would arise for a few hundred years would be difficult for men to get over certain ideas of gallantry and ganv a helpless man would bo led to the altar just because certain long established laws of masculino politeness made hard for him to utter tho resolute no or to be a brother to the fair applicant for her hand As n closing argument the champion for the comans womans right to propose sets forth the suppositious case of a wealthy woman who madly loves r poor but proud young man the young man will not declare his devotion lest ho be called a fortune hunter just because tho wealthy woman has not the liht to offer the indigent but haughty young man her heart ani her dollars two noble lives are forever blighted the case as is too absurd to be considered for the poor and the pi oud young man is an impossible character never mot with anywhere except in old fashioned romances such as occurs in the lady of lyons |