Show Courtship Is dead avers the London World Young men no longer mnkc passionate avowals they never start t when she approaches they do not I grow pallid with jealousy if another seems to be In favor they certainly dm not write sonnets to their mistress mis-tress eyebrow In fnct they scarcely even go so far as to write her a letter let-ter and If they do go to this length the result is never worth rcpubllshlng In book form Lovers do not talk about their hearts and so on nnd if engagements are terminated the severed twain have no scruples about subsequently meeting each other In novels something must be done to make up for the iinvoinantlc spirit of the age so awful situations have to be invented for hapless heroines who either have to kill themselves or bo killed or die in lunatic asylums or convents |