What to Do When Girls Propose

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 284, 25 July 1888, Page 3

What to Do When Girls Propose

You\<4 man. wo want just a word with you privately. Now listen. Being leap year, you will doubtless have more or less otters of marriage from the fair sex. Of course, you are not called upon to accept any of them unless you choose. When your adorer falls on her knees, and with dishevelled hair, dilating 1 eyes, distended nostrils and clenched, lists she beats upon her breast bone and swears by all the stars that she loves you and you alone, don't get frightened and send for a policeman under the impression that you have a lunaticcss on your hands. She's not ciazy. All you have to do is to sit still until tho paroxysm is passed, when she will subside and calmly await your decision. If you want her, frankly tell her that you have always loved her, and thank her cordially for giving you this opportunity of saying as much. If you don't want her, yon snuflle a few times, and tell her that you arc awfully sorry, but your heart belongs to another, and tho best thing you can do is to love her as a bi other. If she has any kind of stuff in her she will then stand on her feet, straighten her bustle around where it belongs, coil up her hair in shape again, pin her hat on her head, crawl into her sealskin sacque, and with an expressed wish that you may be happy with whoever is fortunate enough to win your heart, sail out into the night, and lay plans for further campaigns. "These ordeals are liable to come to you any moment, so you will do well to bo always on the look-ou", lest in an unguarded moment you get frightened into making a promise that will cloud the whole course of your future life.