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Show Mr. Mortlsaer Menkes, in traveling In the east in search of subjects, cam upon a curious form of courtship. Sketching one day in Burma, he noticed no-ticed a man a little distance off glarinc fiercely straight ahead of him at some object he could not see from hia posi tion. The man sat with the same fixed glare the whol6 of the afternoon and was at it again the next morning. Mr. Meupes had the curiosity to ask an' English visitor what it meant. The reply re-ply was, "Oh, he is in love." Aiid it was explained that this was their method meth-od of courtship. The object of the man's attentive glare was a girl in a neighboring neighbor-ing bazaar. When a man falls in love, he has to seat himself at a certain distance dis-tance from his adored one and waits for her to do the rest If she looks in his direction once or twice on the first or iecond day, he is wildly encouraged) and if on the third day 6he nods at hira and smiles it is time to go to the parent w,ith reference to., the marriage settle ments, ; . |