THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATU RDAY, MARCH 28, 1908. Vigtoiss ards Cre Lar Maxrizx ; county, Nichigan, : tender, Rud elt It was in Wayne in Janumy of ths leap year, Aiabriclle Lobbehuel oficial altar of the clerk the man ol her ¥anenoo., 'There, on the very the wedding to which he had his shy consent, the groom balked. "No," he told her, shaking a sud denly reluctant head, "I can't it now, 1 must think it over." tabrielle--whom Wayne county ad miration elasses as distinctly worthy of Aa dozen better men than her chos en AJphonse--declared indignantly ; Mie "yon aon't do it now you'll nev er got another chance." ut Alphonse, still reluctant, went his way, homeward. Wes loving had led to the marriage license heart, Alphonse of eve given do dubious, still unmarriageable he foolish or was he wise? Should a man accept a leap-year pro posal ¥ ---- "What, in the courageous average of the marriages made on earth, by those 8 from heaven---women, to wit-- NW the chances for happiness ¥ What fi Be has a cautious eye on his fu ittipe bliss, and on hers, should aman do to whom the woman proposes ? Alphonse, in Michigan, is not ly man this year who has fled 1 y tender army of a woman would draw him to her yearning om. In St. Louis a newspaper friend of | Frank B. Hanna, the good-looking city comptroller, framed up a joke on him sane of those happy inspirations of Tumior that leave a man aching to commit homicide, * He took the comptroller at his laughing word, and published an arti ple telling of Mr. Hanna's professed "willingness to marry the first present | able girl who should propose to him, Anil be was careful to give the comp roller's age--forty-one yeats--and to tell how presentable he was on his awn account. The. man who has been in St. Louis knows how many pretty. girls are theres the man who hasn't has a joy | ,awaifing him. But it happened that t then the inimitable pulchritude of Bt. Louis was, enhanced by the _ pre "mene of Miss Betty Sharpe, whose mast of dark' hair, rounded cheeks, Cupid. bow mouth, daintily retrousse "hose, deep, dark eyes and adorable fig- ure gave to St. Louis" feminine charm the beilliancy, the grace, the provok- ing grchness and the seductive gla Jour of unrivaled Norfolk, in old the the who bos mother, for she pod over in St. Louis only riends on her way to Cali chaperonage of her had * stop to visit fornia. And then, only then, did another friend of Mr. Hanna's procure a pho- tograph' of sprightly Mise Betty of Norfolk, and fill him with regretful, vain chagrin, over his ungallant' ne gleet, But she's going back next summer To date, these are the only men so far as known, who have had the hardihood to refuge the attractive woman this vear--and one of them might have done no refusing at all if he had known how very at tractive the womag was. The other side is. more chivalrous to contem- plate, Miss Elizabeth Sohm is a woman editor--the editor of the Storm Lake Vidette, in Towa. She bid for the county printing and the' supervisors rejacted her bid, she thought, because she was merely a woman, "What the editor needs," she re marked in a pungent editorial worthy of the finest traditions of western journalism, "is a man to swear for her: when things go wrong. We need a good printer to do our fighting and swenring for us. Any one who thinks himself qualified is at liberty to ve- The residence on Virginia avenue, in "Bt, Louis, hold her and half a dozen "of her prettiest St. Lous friends when thé little joke on Comptroller Hanna eae to their attention. : The | admirable seven took honest stock of their individual attractions, jiu me was not ond who could il in her conscience to say that any of tha others failed to fulfil Mr. Han Ma's able requirements. Nor was Sete: pe whom his qualifications fail. 10 'vontent,: drew straws for him, Miss Sha won him, She is only twenty: one: Wat she is wealthy and educated, r enough to write a propos a filled the St, "Louis girls with ened 7 The strangest the most natural thing, as pens to know or not to know gig eify pp troller, mply paid no attention to her When time passed, until every seemed to prove he was no 'than a hymenal lour-fBusher, le ; ed belle from Norlolk, re nd hor tour westward under. the The editoe of the Lytton Star, G Sleeping Sickness in Africa Still Befence has found it well nigh impossible to counteract the ravages of #. Alri Sleeping Sickness, It isa : sickness, like you feel when out. In Canada people don't die of the "tired feeling," but that i why they shouldn't try to overcame it. For instance take your case, there may be no special ache or pain --yet you are pale, nervous and weak in the muscles. Your is orving for nourishment, ing for purer, richer hlood. Your nerves are starving for tha support hly a healthy body can give, and its small wonder you feel fo fag so utterly run' down and helpless tg work as you would like to. a very simple way to pet strong. All you have to do is take meal me It eontaing hone miakine, tistuc forming material, nourishment that will redden and itev your blood. Under the ie effect dilresti. 3 love of an] gard this as a leap-yéar proposal." . Conti hy. means it. He can be expected to he refused and come again, and his first to his second proposal. But with a woman, as typified in the futile Michigan match, it is usual ly. now or hever. Yet, even here, there Aro exceptions, Philadelphia furnished one. Shortly before the first of the year Hahn went to board with Eleanore Widdie, the mother of friénd, Mary, Marv had It was love affair, hecause Mary from the Lonisa Mrs her Horace Lauks fashioned I known a beau nn time shortest Kind of <hort dresses--and he had loved all the way through her growing up, New Yoar's with the grippe. She had hoen sick bed since Christmas her frien Louisa met Horace for the first time in her absence, entertained him the parlor. New Year's Pay Mary was well enough to have visitors, ane Horace and Louisa weve talking with ber in her sick-room, "M's leap "vear, Horace, Louisa, "Are you ready to me ?"' 'I'll think about it "1 don't company yet." Nor w | | 1 in i On Day Mary was when and, mn A. Craig, had qualifications: He was a bachelor, and he had never tak- en a bluff, Ihe editor of editorially, two said marry the Star," he re oined "can fight and swear enough for two newspapers, Jf the editor of the Vidette will agree to and the gable re occasionally; he is J" he responded any steady seem to be one s i that ennobling stage of loverhood was semething he atten- was he, w tarn his socks mend end of trou satislied that a deal his had never atiaind all his tion to Mary, Mrs. Widdis reproved her for frivolity afterward. "But I mean it," declared calmly. I lke Hora marry me, I'm willing. Only a fow hours passed when "Ho- face returned and secured pirmission to see Mary, in- the sick room. "1 thought you would propose' to me, Mary," he told 'her, "I was only waiting for that." But Mary did not believe year, when the proposing practically done for her. "I should think you would wait up- til T am well," she remarked. "before you would talk about marriage." "Welly I'll bave to take Louisa," he said," qu he went downstairs. Take Lowisa he did, and takes him, most vigorously, Tounisa did: for he had no sooder told hee, Before some vitithrs in the parlor, that he was willing ta marry her, than she eanght up a Bible that lay. wear and asked him to repeut : "Before God, T promise to take you as my lawful wile," Horace promised, in just those words, Amid the laughter of the party. Mra. Widdis disapproved, verv much, Ht was not mere frivolity this time it was almost sacrilege. can be closed at nm once," a It is hoped t and breadth of admiring, lowa, that Miss Sohm will do Her obvious duty. But ther no telling about these erratic journalists, It's as uncertain with actors, tello, who ft Milan to sing in Oscar Hammerstein's prand opéra in New York, left behind him in Europe one of the post beautiful and talented of imamoratas--Mavia whose en: gagement at Covent Garden, in Lon: don, was evoking nightly rounds of applause almost as passionate as the tumuitucus appreciation of her Lelov- od Madrid, Her contract? What contract ever held a singer with even a sore throat, much less an oching heart ? The next steamer bore to New York the des light of Covent Garden, to end, once for all, her doaht of Zenatello's con: stancy. Hers Giovangi Inunched upon the notes of Enzo in "la Ginconda," when his ravighed eves recognized, ina box, the dark and - hand: same face of Maria Gay. The curtain I : wns fo Soondt down thas she was ia bis arms. It was a propesal brought in. most huggable person from far across the sen, The Italian singer, no less chivaltous than the Ameriean edi tor, lost no time in accepting it. Maria, the insistently betrotivd {. hack in London wow She thisks shed knows the marriage will become a validy, and so does her Giovannh Ap #0 do all the other singers, who; bie the public they delight, adore a comance; But so the indefatigable press agents wha know, as no oné else alive knows. that if there is one thing that delights the public mare than a romance that ends happily with, "and so they were marcied," it is the romance that drags along with "and se they aren't." It docs take conrage to refuse a pith, far a woman's proposal is very i t 'a man's, when she a= boarder hroughout the length ya lo ng . palpitating Louisa', 8 Zena: LM ay, in leap even wns was rejection i# properly only the prelude] | clerks' the real, old-} Horace | sho | was the littlest sort of a girl in the} p, and if belly n je « leap-vear was no indictment of marria ning of 1904 bertha liam Herman in Cleveland, four ye ago his brother-in-law rend the riot act and wagpon, to the covaty jail, shded the romance helming proposal for Ker hushand, is common- as Burdett Coutts were happy. This marrince ales proved happy, so far as the world knows. year and anther women. Why, then, affianced maiden of this year hesitate | phone eal a . So "ABE Zoo oh Louisa told her. "1 can't anything wrong about it. a solemn promise, and I am going to keep it, and so is he. 1 love him, and I'm going to marry him. A solemn promise it proved to be, within a week, for they were marriad [Do Kev, J F Crouch in Mount Plea | sant Methodist Episcopal church january ith, and they are now li as happil | | "Well," ee on ing as other newly wedded cou ) East Hortier { Horace's family. b= Te i | more | ples at street, with has happened likewise Miss Eleanora | | her leap-year Balti veeves exercised prvilege at a postal ball to prapose 10 Edward | Mass. He ae and wedding for the following of speed in Jove the for mn < Mclarron, of Roxbury, the spot, | agreed upon the record making and Philadel te j cepted on the was proposal surpassed phia match, and the date ie wedding was as early East and west, this year has been Ag Wenatchee, Washington, the shone. the proposal Fhe telephone company there Inst year, 10° the woulilin't- desert their pokes Migs until th the record maintained far in nay as tele habit offered 5 ! girls bonus rls fOr mar stuck it out! year; got her | Jones, mare | her ear-piece | { riage Kaple of the d ta J hung and all ist, of all hich 1908 } Rua bonus: x him ood the ried and for In up | the leap-vear ro- | rnished, only | i i 1y « fu 1 wen atten with tragec turned unhappiness | late, A} milliner proposed to | North | er, who a martyr He put bullet within a month "IU I'd married clerks before 'and i I'd got I'd be oc the girl proposed too Pittsburg Hull pretty John r a Side saloonkeep- wa to dyspepsia, a through his brain comer," hé fold his he killed Bimseli, a little more home cooking a happier man io av. She had propesed to him too late "Apart" from that marriage, which proposals, only: one such the practice of o since the begin- has turned out badly the match made by Al Morgenroth with August Wil ars When Herman stopped working, gv chronicled That was the riot followed. The patrol which took the bridegroom there, Yet Mrs. Herman ean have the sa tisfaction of knowing that Queen Wil of Holland, who made the ly repmitet to be unhappy ns unhappy Queen Victoria and the Naroness although both of them close their husbands. the baronsts n man who was voRnY enough to he her son 5 The example furnished hy Cuicen Victoria of England is always ¢ noted when the question of proposals he women comes up. It was because of ber peculiar position rather than her wish that she was compelled 10 make marriage overiures to Prince Alhert Yet the wedded lite that resulted proved one of the happiest on record. 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J rear a family independent been held in mans they have busy heen successful, driven and many ou ave miles to he person think teach women paternalism t may it to how then it for fan to I Argument that af of grammar the properly lors not that im be gd t whing "n if he han a good A good the nee 1 rede ried da prepared 7 evakarily mean an it it does roesn that shall be made the best nse ney had how thoy they with ne One ma anen bave to or ta Dap tur learn to whl-reliant itizens hardy American A Bad Bargain. hrstion Advocate, A story in told of the famous Rich: arr rinsley Sheridan, that one day when coming hack from shooting, with empty bag, aml sang x numb of ducks in a Pood. widle rear hy a man was a lence watching them, Nheriday asked What wi'l son take the ducks?" Well" said the man. 'TH take half a sovereign Dome," said Sheridan, uml ho fired) into the middle of the flock. killing a dozen or more. "I'm afraid you made a had bargain," said Sheridan, laugh- ing I don't know about that!" the man replied. "They're sot my ducks." Taken At His Word. ville Courier-Journal, 1 averreached mywlf yostorday,'" "How wae that?' "Made s Wulf at reaching for the lontheon check, and the other fellow Jet me got it,' su aang on f for a shot at thonghtivily, ou w