Show HOW THE PREACHER PROPOSED detroit free press on the subject of neat and clever proposals of marriage professor moore of the weather bureau is credited with the following story A bachelor preacher tad occasion to drink tea with a maiden lady of bis congregation she regaled him with the bitterness of her life and surroundings and expressed a longing to be of some bervice to her neighbors the preacher listened attentively at avery pause in his ncr he abbed for another lump of sugar after at least a half dozen squares of sugar been added to the tea the maiden lady said inquiringly why vl octor have more su garthan lea if you keep on but its not protested the doctor then stir it suggested the lady what ive been waiting for began the doctor you are the sweetness lying idle in this community for want of stirring your sweetness cannot communicate itself to others yet boctor said the maiden demurely it required spoon to stir your tea the sugar would not act of itself and would you be willing faltered he reverend approaching tap seat of the other to take such an old spoon as roe to stir and then followed the same old story |