The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage - Describing Mod...
G. R. M. Devereux![The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage - Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arra](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/446/44686091/CHSBZCOP0344686091.jpg)
The word Courtship has an old-world sound about it, and carries the mind back to the statelier manners of bygone days. Nowadays we have no leisure for courtly greetings and elaborately-turned compliments. We are slackening many of the old bonds, breaking down some of the old restraint, and, though it will seem treason to members of a past generation to say it, we are, let us hope, arriving at a less artificial state of things. During the march...