| Show SHOULD WOMEN PROPOSE certainly says inez boissevain 1 I did it myself the confession of the suffragist leader of new york puts the question on the practical plane where it belongs whether women should propose or not women do propose perhaps on the whole they are more proposed against than proposing but any bachelor who has dodged the matrimonial yoke for a few years can testify that the ladies propose early and often and why not the current prejudice in favor of the man proposing seems to be but a useless survival in the modes of the jolly old custom of marriage by capture tuie under which the hiis husband band obtained his bride by clubbing her over the head then of course there was a prejudice against marriages in which the woman was vas the aggressor for it was a good deal of a reflection on a man that he could be clubbed physically into submission by a woman but there is no dis grace whatever in the condition of the man who in the modem manner is clubbed emotionally into submission by a woman but there is no disgrace whatever in the condition of the man who in the modern manner is clubbed emotionally into submission indeed since mr bernard shaw made it clear in man and superman trian athas it has been a commonplace that no man can escape once a woman decides to marry him it is not liot woman proposes man deposes but woman proposes woman noman disposes too Nevert nevertheless heIe ss even mrs boissevain probably would agree acred that it is pleasanter plea santer if when a woman has selected her mate instead of frankly clubbing him into submission she snares him and leaves him under the impression that lie he has selected her the important thing of course is to get married mar ridd and woman should propose but not until she has haa to she should first try the effect of the downcast eye the fingers gently pressed the deep searching gaze the unaccountable silence the hint of other hunters if all these artifices artif icea fail to draw from her prey the winged words will you marry me she should ask the victim to tea she should gown herself to perfection groom herself to her sleekest slee kest droop in the comer of the sofas sofa in front of the firo fire forget to likht light the lights when twilight fades and turn the talk to the most solemn things life death children is a recipe used with success in the leading families of both europe and america after she has drawn the conversation through tense revelations of a thousand soul agencies she should contrive again the vast silence too full of emotion for speech it if he propose after three minutes and 45 seconds of that she had better do it herself it is hard to forego the pleasure of saying oh I 1 anever never thought you cared for me that way at all buethe vital I things isto is to geta get a hubband pro poser or proposed ja a mansa mans 1 a man for fora a that |
