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Show SLOW COURTSHIP. -- Lovers who propose to enter the temple of Hymen should not dally long in the vestibule. This is a progressive age, and there can be no progress in courtship beyond a certain point. When the parties to the affair have arrived at the conviction that they were "made for each other," and cannot be happy apart, the sooner they become "one and inseparable" the better. Anteanuptial affection is as mobile as quicksilver, and when it has reached its highest point, the safest policy is to merge it in matrimonial bliss. Otherwise, it may retrograde. Very long courtships often end in a back-out on one side or the other - the retiring party being in most cases "inconstant man." And we would hint to that unreliable being that he has no right to dangle after an estimable woman for years without any fixed intention of marrying her. The best thing a lady can do under such circumstances is to bring matters to a focus, by asking the point-no-point gentleman what he means, and when? She can either do that or dismiss him altogether. Perhaps the latter plan would in most instances be the better one; for a man who is slow to matrimony is generally slow in all the concerns of life. |