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Show MANY AND MYSTERIOUS are the ways of lovers, numerous and novel are the methods of courtship; but the prize for originality must be given to a western newspaper which says: In Candahar, when a young woman becomes sweet on a young man, she sends him a hair-pin, meaning, "this is the kind of hair-pin I am." If the young man is like Barkis, he pins a handkerchief in his cap with the hair-pin, signifying: "You can bet your sweet life I am on it worse than an Injun." This amounts to an engagement and a notification to all the folks of the fact and then they get married. This plain and simple way of doing business saves a great deal of swinging on gates, burning kerosene oil of nights, buying ice cream and stand- the liveryman off for buggies. |