Show courting on the island of ivica tho the fair sex are the chief cause of tb the e more fatal quarrels on the island of ivic a to tell the truth the local methods of wooing a girl seem well adapted to provoke irritation she receives her suitors en masse sunday everil evenings rigs are the conventional visiting times the di damsel tinsel then takes up her station in the paternal porch and waits wait for the young men who have conceived a fancy for her each youth has the privilege of sitting by her alone for a limited number of minutes lie ile must make the most of this opportunity for the other aspirants will not tolerate an extension of the time it if he does not get up after awhile and make way for a successor ills his rivals show unmistakable impatience nor can one wonder that now and again when the maiden Is peculiarly attractive the youths find this formal too much for their tempers though unseemly it Is not surprising that they should quarrel and fight with each other but whatever happens the girl has a stereotyped part to play she may interpose to prevent bloodshed in her very presence otherwise it is decorous in her to welcome each fultor with the same measure of civility not until she has had as thorough experience of them as the sunday entertainments afford her does she saw the preference she feels for one iu particular cornhill magazine LIaga zint |