HOW AUTHORS MIGHT PROPOSE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2291, 18 June 1921, Page 1

HOW AUTHORS MIGHT PROPOSE.

If we were able lo catch an author proposing, wouldn t we be likely to find him doing it much after the manner in which he would write? (says New York* Life). I'or distance: —

Harold Bell Wright—Soul of heart’s desire —Amv gal will you turn the celestial heavens into roseate gleaming regions of rainbow bliss; will you make the twittering of sweet young sparrows sound like a golden-voiced symphony choir; will you turn the. sunshine into shafts of glittering happiness for me Amy' gal, I want you to become my mate! Irwin S. Cobb. —Matilda, although it has been done by divers others far more adroit than myself, 1 would come forward at this moment in all solemnity —if a fat man can he solemn—and sincerity, to say, with appropriate bows and gestures, that you prepare bacon and eggs just the wqy I want them prepared for me through life. Every one of my 2G3 pounds of Paducah-bred manhood cries out for yoll, Matilda; and your wonderfully succulent bacon and eggs. ‘

Bernard Shaw.—lt would shock the good people endlessly were we to omit the margarine rite, Zoe; so rather than afford them the pleasure of being shocked, let us straightway to the parson’s.

George Ade, —Amaryllis, as an Animated picture, you’re a Sight for Ailing Optics, As the Happy-go-lucky jay who is Always willing to Try anything once, I am herewith Asking if you’ll Romp through life with me. R.S.V.P., D.Q., as a Ger-

man Ambassador Might Chirp. ' Freud. —When I feel your presence creeping through me, Lisa, my entire subconscious self quivers sympathetically. Let us co-ordinate our supressed desires and harmonise our psychoanalytic sub-strata.