Show They Pop with with a n. Pipe Among the Tartars a curious curious curi curl ous mode of popping the question is reported The in search of a wife having filed a brand new pipe with fragrant tobacco stealthily enters the dwelling of the fair one upon whom he has bestowed his affections deposits the pipe upon a conspicuous article of furniture and retires on tiptoes tiptoe to some convenient hiding place in the tho neighborhood local etiquette requiring that he lie should execute this strategic movement apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap undetected by the damsel of his choice or any mem member er of her fam fam- n fly ily l Presently he returns without further further fur fur- ther affectation of s secrecy and looks into the apartments in a casual sort of way A single glance at the pipe he lie left behind h him ln enables him to learn leara the fate of his proposal If it has hns been smoked he goes forth an accepted and nd exultant bridegroom if not the offer of his hand and heart has been beeh so irrevocably reject rejected cd as not to be worth even etch a n pipe of tobacco Detroit Detroit Free Tress Press |