One Way Of Proposing

An English writer tells an amusing story of a country house where a regular daily routine is observed, and where no chance is given one of breaking the the monotony. It is of a man wlio wanted to stay in a country house, thinking it would give him the opportunity of proposingtoagirl with whom he had been in love with a long time. His visit was to last a fortnight, hut the last evening camt without his liaving had one cliance of being alone with her during the whole time. As he sat at dinner (of course she was at the opposite end of the table.) He feit the time was fast passing away and in a few hours he would no longer be in the saine house with her. When the ladies went to the drawing room he would have to sit on in the dining room. His host might allow him to look in at the drawiug room for a few minutes that evening, but after that his presence would be required in the billiard room. In utter desperation he took up the menu card and on it wrote. " Will you niarry me?" He doubled it up, telling the butler to give it to the lady in question. He did so. She read it, and, with the perfect sang froid born ouly of the nineteenth century, she said : "Teil the gentleman ' Yes.' "