YOUR FIRST PROPOSAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 187, 11 September 1909, Page 4

YOUR FIRST PROPOSAL

i | DON'T BANISH IT LIGHTLY. • When the young girl receives her first ; ! proposal she is apt to tail between two deplorable extremes. The worst iiuii frequent of these is that of faiu v ....; Uj i aL .|t m love, when in reality ahe uoesn i care a lig for her lover. The other consists in a coquettish pride, which leads her, against the : dictates of her judgment and uie inclinations of her Heart, to reject a suitor, .luivever worthy. "hen a man oilers a woman his , hand, with all accompaniments 01 heart and fortune—whether these be exalted I or i. „ v —he pays her the highest compliment in his power. I Undeniably she has a right to feel complimented, and she must be untrue I to her woniaahood does she not in some measure feel so, even though her suitor be beneath her rgard; but the complitalent will be valued very inucE in proportion to her estimation of the man. But take a young girl V'hose geatjo | heart pulsates i n anticipation of love's . ecstasy. When someon* offering her the | sweetest and Brightest of life's fragi anco and boauty, ahe does not pause to *c< whether he be exactly suitable. -in.) a woman has blighted her own (He and uuu ~. L h o ma„ ~iic luveu by i indulging in a p,issio,i i o r coquetry. liavi.ig .iniriKs o, v.iucii „lie j 4 fully conscious, sue prouui,, uieasiires her power, HIM says to herself:

"1 iin equal to great conquests, and shall I thus early submit to be conquer. i ,!■ , U '"■' 11 ' lmvt ' lmd " surfeit of these delights then " But the time nferred to in the little word then" seldom comes to the conuette. It will always be "then.'" The accepted time is never near when once we have let the opportunity pass. • , *!6 nteei » the coquette asks: "Who her At twcnt y- ci S Ut: "Where is

Girls when you receive your "first Oder, be not so flattered or self-deceiv-ed as either to accept or reject without earful deliberation. Dont imagine that this is the last "chance" you will ever have; neither, for the sake of flirting, throw it away.