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Show Mr. Mortimer Menpes, 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 glarins fiercely straight ahead of him at some object he could not see from his posi tion. The man sat with the same fixed glare the whole of the afternoon and was at it again the next morning. Mr. Menpes had. the curiosity to ask an English visitor what it meant. The reply re-ply was. "Oh, he is in love." &nd 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 she nods at him and smiles it is time to go to the parents with reference to the marriage settlements. settle-ments. During a nre m a sraDie at ran Seo, province of Quebec, a bay stallion returned re-turned twice to the burning structure and drove out a horse that was so terrorized ter-rorized as to be unable to make any attempt to escape. |