WHEN TO POP THE QUESTION.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3159, 3 April 1879, Page 4

WHEN TO POP THE QUESTION.

The time for a yDung gentleman to pop the question, and for a young lady to accept him, is ten o'clock in the morning, in the full glare of the morning sun, with the influence of coffee and rolls still lingering about them, and with every freckle plainly visible. Under such circumstances, if Amanda thinks Horatio a hero, and Horatio believes Amanda to be an angel, it is safe to suppose that they W,il^ cpntinjie. to entertain the same sentiiients/an'd that the "match" will not be as highly flavored with brimstone as some we hear of. Moonlight is delusive; so is gaslight. No one has ever put; gas into poetry, but there is as much glamour in it as there is in the moon. Amanda touched up with a bit of chamois and something white in a box, with a tress or two of hair which is hers only by.purchase, and a perpetually smiling countenance is not exactly the same as Amanda in dressing gown and slippers, without powder, and rather cross. ''-Nor is Horatio, made beautiful by his hairdresser, with a great deal of cotton jn the shoulders of his coat, and primed for conquest by a glass or two ofr champagne, the Horatio of the breakfast table. ' ■:

Besides, when people are young and fresh and fair, gaslight and music and waltzing and sentimental songs, or a moonlight walk, or. a r,ow upon the river -with someone'in the-boat who can play .the flut«, will cause the boy and girl to mistake romance in general for romance in 'particular,', arid to believe life a fairy tale, a happy 1 dream, or anything but the stern reality it actually is. 'There sh'6'u'ld be 'roirianc'e in marriage, but it should be real gold—a romance which will linger about wedded Amanda in her unbecoming morning-dress cutting; .bread and butter like Werther's Charlotte, 'and which will notf'des'ert Horatio even in the presence of the butcher's bill. There are more'of these commonplace things in every day existence than lovers dream of; therefore -let Horatio and Amanda see •each other by daylight before deciding on spending a long life together; and above all,things let Horatio pop the question in the full beams of day.. Then Joe' will by; no means be so. likely to regret Amanda's "yes. 1' Nor will she.—M.X.D.