COURTSHIP IN SPAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 7 (Supplement)

COURTSHIP IN SPAIN.

Spanish wooing in olden times was most romantic, i At about. sixteen seventeen was considered tllo tlr "° courtship. When a young man took a fancy to a girl he found out where she lived, and appeared under a window her home The object Of his admiration at first pretended not to sec him; then at last she appeared from tetnnd the window curtain, whilo all the had in tho meanwhile taken count of his presence and summed up his appearand. Then after a few days the youn man addressed a note to tho lady, which ho managed to throw up to her wmdow or to convcy to her by some maidsenant not averse to a bribe. A reply was to sent down from the balcony, and the wourv thus learned that he m'ght join tho family in their walks on the Piado. The mother silently acquiesced m the presence of the follower, although so did not show that she saw him. She soon made inquiries of her friends about tliilT admirer of her daughter, and if he was found eligible she asked them to arrange a meeting at their house, and thus the acquaintance was put upon a family footing.