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Mirandy on the Women Proposing w $L By Dorothy Dix
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(( "J —\E odder night." remarked Ml-
J randy, "Sis Alvlry, whut Is
one of desfe heah long, stringy
one pullets date oughter been in de
fryin' pan of matrimony long ago.
dropped roun' to my house, an’ whilst
we was a discoursin’ on de rights an'
de wrongs of our sect, she say:
"'Well, thank Heaven, Sis Mirandy.
dat dis is leap year, an' hit gives wom
en a chanst to up an' pop de question
to de men dat dey would like tn have
fqr husbands.'
" Hugh,’ 'spons I, for whilst I believes
In de rights of my sect I ain't got
much faith in our bein' able to foreclose
on 'em, leastways whar men is con
cerned.
" Tea.' goes on Sis Alviry, 'I don’t
know nothin' dat shows whut po’,
downtrodden, female worms of de dust
we women is so much as de fact that
we ain’t got even a say-so about pick
in’ out de man dat wp’se got to live
wid, an’ cook, an' scrub, an' wash, an'
iron for, an' take his back talk for
thuty or forty years. Yasum, we wom
en ain't got no say-so in choosln' our
husbands. All dat we can do Is jest - to \
set armin' an’ look willin', wfd our fin- 1
gers crossed for luck, an' put ourselves 1
In de attitude to receive de blessin' in i
case any man is kind enough to come I
along an' ax us to tie up wid him.'
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lak dey had wings, de men is mighty
slow a-comln' along.'
"‘I tell you, Sis Mirandy,' pursues
Sis Alviry, ‘dat if ev'y woman could pop
de question, an’ git her ruther in de
way of a husband Instid of havin' to
take whut she can git, dere wouldn't be
so many slack, wives in de wor!', be
caze many a woman takes out on de
po,' on fortunate man she did git her
spile in not giftin' de one she had her
eye on Nuther would dere. be so many
fool marriages, becaze a man picks out
a wife lak he dors a chany dish, by de
looks of hit an' de paint on hit, an' den
he goes home an’ raises a ruction he
caze whut he got ain’t a Iron pot. Rut
a woman has got more love sense an' |
she chooses a husband by de use she’s ,
got for him.’
Her Choice.
" 'Sis Alvlry,’ says I, 'be you gwlne to i
pop de question durin' leap year’'
“'Sis Mirandy,' she 'spons, 'ax me no ;
questions, .an' I'll tell you no lies, hut I i
will say dat dr ease of Brer Eben, wid I
dat house full of ohlllun wid no ma to I
look after 'em, goes to my heart, an', es !
' he don't know i ,■ nman dat's nest cut
out to be a good stepmA an' wife, I
I does. An' de forgiven name of dat
I woman is Alvin
"After Sis Alviry was gone my.
■daughter Ma'y Jane, up an say 'Maw.
Ido vou believer in women poppin' de
I question?' '
" 'Well.' I 'spons. ‘women is got de
right to propose, but. my lan', a woman
is sholy lackin’ in probusnes es she
has to pop de question herself. Any
woman whut can't tole a man on to de
pint whar he axes her hisself ain't got
enough sense to lead a blind goose to
water. She auttinly is a dumb woman,
an’ she’s' got so little gumption dat she
“Hypnotism Yet in Its Infancy,”
Says Pauline
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‘V ° R JOSEPH R. PAULINE.
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f|T T YPN () TISM ■ as yet in its in-
■ I fan l y." says Pr.ullne. ’ Already
among the physicians of Eu
rope, and especially of Germany, it is
employed as a natural anaesthetic in
minor surgical operations: dentists find
it a blessing, and its power is recog
nized ns a curative agent in the ease of
certain bad habits -but not yet has it
come into its own.
' The time is coming when the whole
medii il profession will accord hypno
tism the place as the one greatest cura
tive and preventive agent within the
reach of man.’’
Paulino's opinions carry some weight.
He is not merely a vaudeville perform
er. although he has managed this week
to make himself tije chief topic- of con
■ “ sat’.on in Atlanta by his startling
Hunts H e is a deep student f
psyoholog’
He was a small bov when he became
interested in hypnotism purely because
might just as well been bawn a man
to start wid. •
“ Shoo, chile, dere’s ~-leventy-leven
way s’to make a propose, an’ ev’y one of
'em wuks—raze heah's all of we all
married woniern to prove hit.
" ‘Cose women lays mighty low 'bout
dis. an' gives hit out dat de men dey
marry jest chased 'em up to de altar
an’ cotch 'em, but you better believe
dat we wouldn’t' have no call to shake
our feet at many more weddins es it ;
was jest left to de men to pop de ques
tion. Yessum, ev’y man dat's safe In
de matermomal fold has been helped
over de fence by some woman.
How He Acts.
'' ‘Honey, did you ever notice the
curis way a man acts when he pops de
question? He's so surprised ,to find
hisself doin’ hit dat he most swallows
his Adam's apple, &n’ his eyes pop out
lack a skbered rabbit's in de brush pile
“'You see, de w hareforenels of hit is
dis—- when a man starts out to gala
vantin' aroun' wid a woman he ain t
got no idea of marryin’. He jest wants
to have a good time, an' he goes proj
ickln' along, feelln’ jest as safe as es
he had took out his 'insurance papers,
an' den some day. fust news he knows,
he hears hisself a-axin' her es She will
let him wuk an' support her de bal
ance of his life. An' he don't know
how hit all com' 'bout, but de woman
does.
" Cose Vou has to use different ways
wid different men, for men is own
brudder to de mule—dey's powerful apt
to balk befo' de matermonial fence, an'
some of ’em has to he coaxed, an'
some of 'em has to be driven, an’ some
of 'em has to be skeered befo' you can
make ’em take de jump over hit.
■' ‘Now, dere was Si whut kept a
hangin' aroun' Eliza Jane's ontel he wo'
out de rockin’ chairs, an’ most <!t I
her folks into de po’ house. Si was one
of dt>se heah higgoty men dat was so
stuck on hisself dat he thought dat
both his parents had made a careful
study of the science, or art. or whatever
it may be called. While still in school
he gave manifestations of an inherited
power, which both amused and terrified i
his school mates H» was only nine- ;
teen "hen he was able to manage hit
subiects thoroughly and no longer hao
any doubts of his powers.
He vas 25 when he returned to his
I native France and placed himself unde:
■ rhe tutelage of Charcot. the great phy
sician and hypnotist who was and -is I
the admiration and wonder of both pro- !
sessions. It was Charcot who substi- [
tuted hypnotism for inaesthetics ir. j
minor operation’ and wno used to walk j
I through the wards of his private Ims-|
I pital at Nancy, in Fran< -. putting his ;
i patients to sleep with Ills hypnotic)
■l'-rnez; Dormez!” I':oni his studies j
I under the master mmd - f mesmerism I
: and hypnotism Pauline acquired a I
I breadth of view which enabled him to I
I return to America and deli', er lectures,
: before scientific bodies in hospitals
I churches, lyceums and other places of
! public congregation and to make the
I acquaintance of men of profound reien
: tific learning throughout the country—
I men whom he deeply Impressed.
It is not a far cry from the rostrum
ito the stage and Pauline, being con
-1 vlneed by many evidences, that he pos
sessed the pow er to please ind m\ stif’ .
"ent upon the s’age and has achieved.a i
. success unequalled by any other hypno- i
I tist in the W*
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FAINTIN’ AND FALLIN’ INTO HIS ARMS.
folks ought to be willing to pay out
money jest to git to look at him. but.
law. he didn't have no more idee of
marryin' dan nothin’.
'' ‘But Liza Jane, she did. so w hut
I doe- she up an' do when Si was a
startin' home one night? She bursts
into tears. ‘‘Whut Is you a-cryin’
about?” asks Si. 'Tse a-w-eepin' "
spons Eliza Jane, "becaze you'se a
gwine away, an' I won't see you until
tomorrow, an' I don’t know how I'se
a-gwine to stand hit.”
" 'An' dot fotched Si, becaze he felt
so sorry for anybody dat had to be de
prived of his society dat befo' he know
ed hit he was a-tellin’ her dat he
wouldn't never leave her no mo'.
” 'An' deer was Bro’ Tb/n Johnslng.
dat was one of dese heah bashful men
whut gits right ash-colored when dey
looks at a woman, an' loses deir voices
when dey speaks to her How you
reckon Sis Mariah got him spunked
up enough to pop de question? She
ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN * * By Beatrice Fairfax I
YOUR AFFAIRS COMPLICATED,
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am acquainted with a young man
Who Ik nineteen. I am working in an
office with a y.oung man who said he
cared a great deal for me. I dearly
love the second young man. but he is
going wdth a young lady. He has asked
me to go to church with him. but I
have refused on account of the first
young man. who is very jealous of me.
and I am keeping .steady company with
him. MABEL.
You don't like your "steady com
pany" as well as you like the other
man. The other man has a “steady
girl.”
Under the circumstances' there is
nothing for you to do but give up
both.
HE'S NOT FIT FOR LOVING.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am seventeen and engaged to a
young man four years my senior, w hom
I have known wight months. I sincere
ly love him and know my affections are
returned. Before he knew mo he went
with another girl, whom he has known
for years, and.he on her every
week.' AVhen I speak to him about this
he says he never forgets his old friends,
but if.l speak, to a former friend while
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didn't, but ev’y time he speaks she an
■ swerj “Yes,” an' at last she guessed
' right.
“ 'An' I ain't a-tellin' how I led Ike
up to de proposin' p int, becaze Ike has
. done believe for thutty years dat he
, done hit all his lone self, an' dat whut
brought matters to a head was along
of me faintin' an' failin' in his arms
becaze I was so skeered of a snake dat
we come across when we was takln' a
walk an’ dat by de time I done come
to he done tole me dat he loved me
an' axed me to marry him,
“ 'lke say dat but for de accident of
dat snake we might never have gotten
married, an' I don't argify de pint wid
him—but I specs I knows who put dat
dead garter snake at dat particler spot
in the road.
“ ‘Naw'm. I ain't got no opinion of a
woman whut is got to pop de question
to a man. She sho' do need a guar
deen.
" 'An hit wouldn’t do her no good es
in his company he gets very angry and
w on't speak for days. KATHLEEN.
A man who is, so selfish during an en
gagement will prove a brute after mar
riage. If you can't cure him of his
selfishness by taking the privileges he
demands for himself, break the engage
ment. I see nothing but humiliation
for you if you marry him.
Somewhat Inquisitive
‘‘Do you happen to be going far. sir .”'
said the inquisitive man to tne othei
occupant of the railway carriage on the
night express from London to Scotland.
"Oh, no; only to Scotland!” replied
the other sarcastically. "I am a com
mercial traveler. My age is 38. I am
married. My name is Philip Tlgson. 1
have a son eighteen years old. He is in
the civil service. He gets about ( 25
shillings .a week. My father died last
June. He was a stock broker. My
mother is -till living. I have a cousin
who has red hair. Our cook is called
Mary. Anything else?”
The inquisitive man hesitated.
“What did your grandfather do for a
living"” he inquired slowly
she did. becaze all de men would, say.
"No," for dis reason —a man don't never
think well of nothin' onless he thinks
he thought of it first. Dat's de reason
dates a woman was to pop de ques
tion to a man he'd be dat contrary
dat he wouldn’t have her. no matter
how much he wanted her. becaze he
didn't think of her fust. Men sholy is
curis .critters, and hit suttlnly does
rub de fur de wrong way wid 'em, an’
de woods would be full of ole maids
es women took to doin' de courtin’.
" But shoo, daughter,' I says to
Ma y Jane, ‘don't you worry none. XVhut
does a woman wid a tongue in her head
an' a cookin' stove to her hand, to tole
a man into matimony wid. need wid
de right to pop de question? She don’t
have to. Any woman dat don't know
no more dan dat 'bout how to git ’roun
a man an' manage him ain't got no call
to git married. Wbar she belongs ain’t
in de holy estate. She was predesti
nated an’ foreordained for de .Spin
ster's Retreat.' "
THE WRONG COURSE.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
1 had been going with a young man
for three years,until about a year ago,
when we had a quarrel. A few .months
ago we made up that quarrel and he
has be°n visiting me on friendly terms.
Nov . I have always told him if he went
with another girl he could not come to
see me, because it wpu’d not be fair, to
the other girl, and it would not be fair
to me. About a week ago I heard he
was going with another girl Thia made
me angry, as he still came to see me.
I asked him and he said it was not
true, hut later, before a friend, he said
it was true. I did not know what to
do for the moment and I simply said.
'Well, in that case good-night,". and I
have not heard from him since.
R. H. H.
He is evidently very fickle, or he
would not care to go with two girls at
cnee. Nor do 1 like his attempt to de
ceive you. You are right in your atti
tude. but wrong in your course of ac
tion. You have hastened an open rup
ture. A better way to cure him and to
hold him would be to let him go with
other girls and demand the right to go
with other boys. If he returns, whlctf I
hope he will, since you love him, laugh
at yourself. Tell him you didn't mean
it. and that you don't care whom he.
goes with. A little difference will serve
as an incentive to his love for you. A
man who is freely accorded the right to
flirt with other girls loses all desire to
exercise it.