Courtship Among The Zulus

Courtship among the Zulus goes m as it does all the world over, falling out and in again. It varíes a little according to the position of the lady, or ler inclinatlon. There Is a sort of eap-year arrangement which permits a girl to make the proposal of marriage. It is managed with the utmost decorum and secrecy. For example, if a Zulú girl has set her heart upon a young man she will suddenly disappear from her home - her relations are not supposed to know where she has gone - and taking a confidential friend with her she goes to the home of :he favored swain, and if his parents receive her she is treated as his future jride, and arrangements for the wedding begin. If she does not flnd favor with the young man, her visit is not received, she is returned to her own home with thanks, the objeot of her unrequitted attachment usually making a handsome present to ease her !eelings.