Wood River Times

SHOULD A GIRL HESITATE?
Diverging Opinions of Two Maidens as to What is Woman's Sweetest Hour.
Exchange.

A young girl, attractive though not pretty, bright and witty, well-read and well-bred, whom I love dearly, asked me the other day what I thought was woman's sweetest hour. I have since then discovered her reason for asking the question. She anticipated my answer with the preface that she thought it was when, having brought the man of her choice to the point of proposing, she keeps him waiting a few moments for her answer, regarding the nature of which she has given no inkling so strong as to make it certain that it will be "yes."

I am also a young girl, three years her senior. I have not yet experienced that "sweet hour"-not, at least, from a welcome source. Still

I can well understand that to see and feel the anxiety of one's lover, and to know that it is all caused by love for you, should constitute unbounded happiness.

Yet my friend's idea strikes me as somewhat insincere and a trifle cruel. Were I ever called upon to answer the most important question of life, propounded by the man of my heart, I would find keener joy in unhesitatingly saying "yes" than to feign a doubtfulness I did not feel.

A little beating about the bush at the outset is perhaps proper enough, but when you have assured yourself that you are dealing with an honest man that loves you I think that all parrying and diplomacy had better be supplanted by frankness and sincerity.

I think the honorable wooer entitled to as much information as he has imparted to his sweetheart.