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Show African Courtship. Among some African tribes, when a man professes his love for a woman and asks her In marriage, she Invariably Invari-ably refuses him at first. lost It should appear that she had been thinking of him and was eager to become his wife. By so doing she maintains the modesty mod-esty of her sex, as well as tests the love and abases the pride of her lover. lov-er. This policy Is also Intended to be of use to the woman In her married life as, should there be quarreling and the husband threaten to send her away, she can remind him of how he made repeated professions of his love and urgently pressed his suit before she consented to become hia tf. |