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Show T Dorothy Dix Talks j If HOW MEN PROPOSE I A woman, who claims to know, says this is the way in which various types of men pop the question: The very young man offers you his hand and heart as if he were proffering proffer-ing you a cup of cold poison. He is white faced, and dry mouthed, and tense, and tragic, and when ho swears that he will commit suicide if you refuse re-fuse him he means it, for it is only when one is very young that one believes be-lieves that love is the be-all and end-all end-all of life. You never remember very distinctly what he says. It's something about his never having loved before, and that he will never love again, and you are the only woman in the world, and of course will have to wait a while until he gets to making as much as $20 a week. But two can live as cheaply as Zf one, and so oh, and then you kiss him if you are going to say "no" because V you are so sorry for him, and he kisses you if you say "yes" and ten years later he is wondering what was the name of-that girl he made such a fool of himself over at the Smithson's ; party, and you wonder what's become of that nice boy that you spooned with that summer at the beach. We may laugh at calf love .ill we 1 will, but the woman who has had . a , boy's first proposal has had an ala- ' baster casket broken at her feet, and it's a pity she's generally too young to know just how precious it's myrrh (it mu uuiiKicence are. HE How the Flirt Proposes. Hi The man who is a flirt proposes like HI a school of correspondence course t love-making. He has to have a stage wit setting for a background and cracked II ice music for an accompaniment. He I I seizes the psychological moment when I f you are sitting out under the palms at lit a dance and the orchestra is sobbing lift a Hawaiian love plaint, and then he III reaches over and takes your hand, and Ufc begins by telling you that your eyes JTi are wells of night, and that there is Stga0 Something strange about you, some- r"""V thing unfathomable, and different .',.( from nnJ' other woman. .5 W Then he quotes poetry passionate, iJT sizzling Swinburne stuff and assunes ''JB ou tnat 1,fe be cm(1ers, ashes, M and dust without you, and says some- Mt' thing that sounds like a proposal at 12 midnight, but that does not bear the scrutiny of the cold gray morning (I after. For the flirt loves and 'rides I v awny and no woman in her senses re gards him seriously. The Man With a Mission. The truly good young man, and the one with a mission in life proposes like a Sunday school tract. He wastes no time in lovo-inaking and sometimes oven has the nerve to toll a woman that his heart is given to his work, and that he merely desires a companion com-panion to assist him in uplifting the world and look after his physical rom-fort, rom-fort, for .Qven saints have a predilection predilec-tion for good cooking. Occasionally he tops off the proposal, as if ho-were I serving clams on ice, by saying thatj before he spoke he had besought Divine Di-vine Guidance on tho subject In order that he might not be Influenced by bis personal preferences. The blunt man sandbags you with his proposal. He is liable to make it on a street car, or at a restaurant, and he always chooses the glaring middle mid-dle of the day. "Say," he breaks in, over the roast beef and mashed potatoes, pota-toes, "I'm not sentimental, or romantic roman-tic and I think all this talk about love is dopo and bunk. "Now, I like you. You are no great beauty, but I'm not strong for looks, and you are- healthy and have good common sense and I think wo would hit it off about right What doy vou say? is it a bargain?" Bashful Man Explodes. Tho bashful man explodes his pro- nncj'i 1 imiAo -..mm m i uuui ,uii nuau mj u ii were a hand grenade he had cast at you. Ho doesn't lead up to the point gradually, and artfully. Ho fires tho question at you as if he was hurling it off a catapult. cata-pult. This is not because he is lacking lack-ing in sentiment but simply because he is scared to death. He has spent weeks, perhaps years, In screwing his courage up to the sticking point, and he realizes that It is now or never. If he funks at the momept, he is gone forever. He will never pop the question. Business Man's Proposal. The business man's proposal Is like a health certificate, or an insurance policy. The minute a business man gets interested in a wpman he begins to look out about what she eats, and whether she wears warm enough clothes. Then some Sunday he comes around and steers her to look at some new apartments, or bungalows, and after calling her attention to tho fact that the plumbing is exposed, and tho gas! range goes with the kitchen, he savs !"What do you say to coming out here land being my little housekeeper?" j Conceited Man's Proposal, i The conceited man proposes as if he j was handing a woman a prize package. ! He tells her what a sacrifice he is making In marrying at all, and that people think he Is going to marry Miss I Mllllonbucks, and then he puts her I wise to the fact that ho shall expect ihis wife to bo a composito of Iletty ; Green, and Lillian Itussell, and Mary jJane, and ho winds up by bestowing a' patronizing kiss upon her, and looking look-ing as if he hoped that she appreciated hor luck. j Widower Reminded of First Wife. The widower proposes like an obit-juary obit-juary column that is full of laudatory 'tributes to the late deceased. Ho invariably in-variably begins his wooings by "telling "tell-ing a woman that she reminds him so muoh of his dear, departed Mary Ann, and he never knows that the reason" the woman ho is proposing to grits j I her teeth so strangely, is because there I is no other woman, alive or dead, that she wouldn't rather look like than the ! first wife of her future husband. Of the proposal by letter nothing Is to bo said in extenuation, except that it is valuable evidence in a breach of promise case. The man who pops the question to a woman with his mouth a thousand miles off is no lover. He is nothing but a slacker in love. So says the woman, who "save she knows. |