Show Marriages in Holland Of the twelve months in the year November No-vember is reckoned in certain villages in Holland to be by far the most important impor-tant The four Sundays of this month are known respectively as Review Sun day Decision Sunday Purchase Sun day and Possession Sunday names which sufficiently explain the purposes to which they are put by the young people Review Sunday the unmarried girls and young men after the morning service walk up and down staring at one another to their hearts coalenfci Hay ing made up their mindi whom to select the following Sunday the youths with the politest bows imaginable salute the fair ones and judge from the way i their courtesy is responded to whether I success or defeat is to be their lot The I third Sunday is devoted to the less I romantic task of obtaining the consent of the parents and arranging in business 1 I like fashion the details of the mArriage I settlement The stern hearts of those 1 in authority having been satisfactorily subdued all the following week the parson is busy at marrying but not until Possession Sunday comes round are the happy betrothed permitted more than an affectionate gaze or at most a tender squeeze of the hand Pall Hal Gazette |