LOVEMAKING EXTRAORDINARY

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3253, 11 September 1917, Page 2

LOVEMAKING EXTRAORDINARY

MANY (>1>I) WAYS (IF XYOOINd. The wild gipsies of G.alicia use cakes as love-lettei's. A coin is baked into tin cake, which at the first opportunity is Hung to the favoured object. Ihe retention ot thi, is looked upon as a virtual "acceptance": its forcible return. ;mi intimation that the "attentions" are undesired. Amongst an Indian tribe a rather pretty courtship custom obtains. At the annual "love-twist" a girl will hide a pitcher by the reels neir the river, and then, pointing towards the youth with whom she is in love, s'be will whisper, "Fair youth, find!" It the maiden seems ;is fair to him as he to her, lie -cardies, finds, aiid places the pitcher on her bead, and the two are husband and wife.

Among the semi-s lvage tribes in the Arabian desert, the lover tries to seize the girl while she is pasturing her ti-ther's flocks. She pelts him with iu ml. sticks, and stones, and will be held ill lifelong repute if she succeeds in wounding him. Once driven into her father's tent, the lover Is reckoned to have won her. and the betrothal is proclaimed. The Eskimo smitten one goes one better. inasmuch as lie marches openly and without any beating aUiut the bush to his loved one's abode, seizes her by her long, stioiig hair or her tur garments. and drag-- her to hi- lair of ice or tent oi skin.

Tile maiden of Burma lights a " lovel.unp" in lu-r window when the desired c.ne passes at night, and it he be willing. lie speedily conveys the glad iu-

formation to her. When the Sumatra girl Has reached twenty-five—and her lile i p to then has 'm-cii pas-ed in -trict seclusion- and no one h i, conic to a>k for her hand, -he attends t > the matt•• i iu her own way. dresses in red. and goe- out twice a day, until successful, ti find .'. husband.

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