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Show SeTSnGirLNow Engaged, Sells ) How Forty Men Proposed to Her I k,cS ch,coco ,v,, Ff kcpL a faithful rcCord of 1,c?' h3 nn proposing, but she doesn't SflCf Jt She won't give her 11 frc uccs to allow her photo-HZns photo-HZns page-Kuld be ! fr,ph .00 And her name Is one i A announced her engagc- , jjiVlne J - vearg of uqueslloned !rc;nti.ftert congentcdi ..for ?Xi5Sufic purposes," to discuss Ln' crs and method, of the mod-Wns mod-Wns ,,cn Ir0P0S,ng mar-rtl mar-rtl ,1 modern young woman. it often that such a subject Is funked oi by one qualified to :r .m-thlng about. w " n "Slv. they say. but they I 7SPtfsl men concealing 11 VnS ffl belns f ld ? tell of 1 jny tiling . lney should be ac- E TenP ' ttwtlJi by lose fortu- 1 of empii f ,IOMOr not rnccml ted "o them Is also I il'S In Sforeinp reticence. But to I irt Kevcloped science of psy-V psy-V ihi oxnert In pre-matrimonLal Knflcns and to frankly rc-S rc-S vr "proposal" experiences, omlt-t omlt-t i and flat". as a nonorable H n m J Her first statement was r'tff -ST iflrlng to make the com-feli com-feli Srden Sner? masculine man sit tqand take notice. Story of the Forty Proposals. Wrorty different men have asked me g A Sf them." she laid, simply. I JK of the numhor, becau.se I 1 fcJ-M It was at least their due to g K mo remember always the people I Shave paid me this great compll- I W iceker after psychological dam lr"ji- ' ' it' not such an extraordinary num- ;,' i'te-Vent on the "expert' pouting a K rai 'Tvo been out since 1S0G. and iSitV5 only an'avcrasc of five a year Of course, the proposals didn t n income as regularly as that, and It , i (Hosbnital to apeak of them in .such a iUUrflc.il way. an if they wore census snrfj or election returns. But I sup- t I 'rose that for the 'sacred cuuse of scl- ;j ilia" such squeamish feelings must br j I'jscwtssed. Even science, however, Wtmakc me disclose the .particulars 't 'f the first and last times that a man liked lo marn me. For It happens that j '.lis same person was the hero of both dee happenings, and I expect to have t (tie honor of bearing his namo atter a ) wlsin day in June. When he first h fuiiJ me lo be his wife I was 13 and i ifticaslo. I Kiid Yes,' but mother said "j fpoand I was hurried off to boarding- ; flKtool. ' ITiree Jlen ABted iier at bcnooi. . ii-WJillE I waa at school I received '. Rfliret proposals of marriage. A San r rrtod'Co girl there whose father had ; m btr rnilltonH In sugar must have re- jttlred hundreds during the same pe-ifci pe-ifci Poor little thing! She'd get these i l3lfTS from absolute strangers asking ila'lomarr them, and at llrst she used : ;,Dfryoviir them terribly I found out, 'iScajh. that she had been engaged to ttvo youthful Callfornians before she ft mil years old, and 1 didn't waste any f ! apathy on her after that. But wasn't : 'Storrlble? Just think of the number of tienceless fortune-hunters there 'rotbe In this country to permit ono Wch girl to receive so many brazen ap- ijal! My proposals were' of a different ; ffi- Tliey ere from three young col- j !:'qcJaas whom I had known at hojnf. 'ind I must say that all of the peopl? J 5mbave asked me tc marry them fal- ; i,W excepting one, these boys did it : J lie inost attractive manner. I don't ! Nicx Uiey really were in love wl'.n i i.for they seemed to get over It easi- j j(7. But they were so manlv, and so ittresl, and so heroic over It all, that 1 L,"dlr loved to have them do It, and I lW:e a tragedy queen when I ald p In as near an approach to their Igunfras I could. The College boy way Proposing Is tho Gibson way. goiter that I hud an experience with ?fdsn men," she continued, a little WT, and they aren't nearly as nicy .JMmerlcans. An Italian wanted me .8 Wrry him while we wore at Flor-ne Flor-ne SDoko t mother and '$2, . , iVk(i 10 me- ,)Ul "either of us ;,m' beoause he talked so much hfL Hc waa delicately sentimental, 'Hfc. icemed efieminate after my nice ig-pfe o, and I sat down and wrote WCh a ,onB lettw the night after t iM i . lm UnHan exempll-'Fnlr exempll-'Fnlr Mpp 80,1001 oi Proposal. In EriLn C taycd aU summer In the JMrican Parisian colony, and two n", 'sltcd mt i0 become tbtir "Sir lhat- 0n,? WQS a aval J e s";re he'd cpnrnlt su'-tii su'-tii in hU( 0tl datlfully. the other Ptat an l,Kl?my blue-blooded silence. 1 M aS ?rd? ,ild lhc Impudence lo fW Sv ump aiu tn lo Embassador fefbit w?,eXdted' 'b'ipaodlQal rnnn-K rnnn-K Thfv 1 vv,?s most distasteful to W S f r ,Ted ,,u,re thaL lliey were f Vlhattn .acceplt'd' and 110 woman L X min r' ma- It's presumptuous. :I wgush Different aad Nicer." I I ; W theESS'l,n diffent and nicer," 1 aT2n t;; d nolhInS you can say 'H thev J"l , Word- A once ? "d l11 t1,rouBH to the bit-! bit-! '. a stolid I?n. m?re t,0u,nplnsr to ' T-Uirn "J' British ehmU" lla ia'), w"1 nialce the ; fefeadS but V,Ur:,,K,lph "tyle is LIver,,'Ml in'1 m ; forcul.. When I . and? w, ,He?n swced to twelve . 'n aiu?? t,alfhavc ifelt conscience f i,at that i i. i 11 ha,m t hcon fo1' I -rfy SonIiUnh0,10Stly trled lo 'P s KY xc L0Xfttl n thu bud. Vh- He's a 8eMan nsllahmnn. li, ( .a ntloman and he's PCift calcine with a .Ines aLV, d m "cvcr complains & t ZLZT nen1tal dcs. Tn a pu,e U ijyU harder to say 'No,' mntShThinkS Model. MtSat15 .o'S fe'Cun 1-posa' oo-fm&l1 oo-fm&l1 I'M tell Tfr1",y. ,ht season SlrK model if i,in,de a11., because It K vlvot"n e fo1aPun "al been iJfFry lI1UcCh f'Ed0I'ie months I Hked m. n' and I didn't want him to propose to me. but in a weak moment mo-ment I promised to it out .several dances w ill him, and he took advantage advan-tage of ills- opportunity. Hr was quiet n a mouse when we llrst foupd a nook and settled ourselves In It, 1 talked aaJ fast as I could and trledo make him do the jiimc, but he way not to bo dented; de-nted; He clear, d the decks for action by firmly telling me he was n6t In the mood for tajktng fooJishuoHS. Then he squared his 'chin and tightened his mouth until it was just a level xtreak across his fuce. ;n,d told me without preface that ho liked mo bettor than any other person in tho world. I l!d m without any coquetry, and said that I w-aa fond of him and that that winter S'ne SCl Umes loscther "'But I mean a lot more than that'. .Said' , k,,ou' thi,t 1 s'mply cannot get on w thout you. and I want you to m Zu- 1 dn,t want t0 bold ypu " v vLl-hrVP n'Ul no and make you sa ps because I'd rather never see you again than have any feeling of compulsion about It, But if you feel that yop can tell me whether there's any hope for me I wish you'd do so." I love you, dear, more than anybody In all the world, and that makes jne brave enough lo ask you whether you can care for a man like mo.' Said "No" and Uqn She Wopt. "Thatfs Just the way he said Jt. I remember re-member It as if it were yesterday. And squared his shoulders and looked at mo steadily with his. honest blue eyes while 1 searched my soul to find out if I really cared enough to say 'Yes.' But 1 knew that my doubting my love was proof of itR non-existence, ?o I tojd him 'No,' nnd cried about It, because T Hked him i so much and I hated to have him go. But he went, not angry at me and not whining about himself, but begging me not to worry about, the matter. Ills was the unselfish way of asking a woman wo-man to marry him, and it's the typical American way. Sometimes there Is more sentiment about it, but the man is always master "of hlniHelf and bent flnU on sparing the woman that he loves. I3vcn the college boys were that way. "The place where I received the piost proposals in the least time," went on the expert more quickly, "was in Washington. Washing-ton. I was only thero one season, but over a dozen men proposed to me. Thqy were mostly diplomats, and I didn't like it a bit. 'J?hey'd do 11 at dinner, between the soup and the entree, and nevor ''bother about It half as much as I did, "Another means which a number of men took to ask me to inarry thim was the United States mall. I pall that cowardly, cow-ardly, jjccause a man could always say piore on paper than he would dare to In speaking lo you, and I took palnB to refuse re-fuse theso proffers as briefly as I could. A cablegram I pardoned, because tho man was In China and lie had heard that I was about to become engaged to some ono else. But I cabled back N"o,' and it coBt ine $5. Two proposals I received re-ceived and declined-without knowing they were In earnest. Altogether, I think that my enrper might br summed up In the following table for 'psychological 'psycho-logical reference': Style of proposal. ( Number, College boy method " Sappy Tuillan way 2 Prcsumpluoux French style 2 Bullhcadod lSnpllsh proffer , o Unselfish American proposal ,. S Fortuno hunters' buslnc?3 method "3 Careless, diplomatic .school of proposing 10 Cowardly written proposals 1 Cahlegram .- 1 Proposals not understood 2 Tho Right Man 1 ! Total . 'To ii i i ,i jiih' m ... ... i . j.i . j i i . ii i l.i il 1 1 -- |
