A NEW WAY TO POP "THE QUESTION."

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 7 January 1881, Page 4

A NEW WAY TO POP "THE QUESTION."

In novels the hero asks tho heroine to beeoTne'his wife in mopfc romantic and flowery Lir)i;iiu>e. In real, life the request is made in very halting words, and often in a very common-place manner. The following is the ouninlest manner of making a proposal of which we have heard -.—A gentleman had bae.! bri« p-vriug attention to a young ladywhom he was very anxious to marry, but could not screw his courage to the sticking point. At last he resolved to take the first opportunity which presented itself of asking tho momentous question. No sooner, however, had ho formed this resolution than fortune seemed to desert him. He often met the fair one, but never could get the chance of speaking to her alone. Driven to desperation he one day succeeded in accomplishing his purpose at a dinner-party. The lady was on the opposite side of the table. Be was, however, equal to the occasion, and tearing out a leaf from his pocket-book. wrote on it, under cover of the table, " Will yon be nvy wife ? "Write Yes or No at the foot of this." Calling a servant, he whispered to him to take the note —which of coiuvs? was folded vp —to " the lady in blue opposite." The servant did aa he was directed, and the gentleman, in an agony of suspense, watched him give it to the lady, and feed his eyes with badly-disguised eagerness, to try and judge from her expression how the quaintly-made offer was received. He had forgotten one thing—namely tbiit hi dies seldom carry pencils about them at a dinner-party, His love was, however. not to be baffled by so trifling an obstacle, am!, after reading the note calmly, the lady turned to the messenger and said, " Tell the gentleman Yea." They were married in due com so.