BLACK ART.
The harrowing stories of breeches of promise to marry which the courts have of late been furnishing may make one wonder whether, after all, these things are not better managed among the heathen. The Zulu young lady, when men are bashful, takes the matter in hand herself. She quietly disappears from home, and her excellent parents would not for worlds guess where she has' gone. She takes a discreet friend of her own sex, and presents herself at the home of her favoured swain. The rest is easy. If he regards her suit with satisfaction, his parents receive her as his _., future bride, and forthwith preparations for the wedding begin. But Barkis may be unwilling ; in which case his parents do not receive the damsel, a nd away liome she goes, to think out another foray. But she is not wholly a loser by her trip. The gentleman who will not makes her a handsome present, and she is thus dowered for the next expedition. The idea is a present to the 'matrimonial agencies.—"Sketch."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 526, 14 December 1912, Page 6
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176BLACK ART. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 526, 14 December 1912, Page 6
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