The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-01
COURTING HOUR HAS CHANGED
No MORE LONG EVENING TALKS
FOR YOUNG rOLk ~ SOCIETY.

There Isn't Time or space In the Whiri Of
Entertaining Besides. II Isn't Good
Form"-ne New York Young Man
Comes TO Tea. or They stroll Instead.
Nowadays when New York's best society
goes a counting 1t shows q deplorable ten
dency toward the prosaic and unromantic
at least some people think the tendency
deplorabe For instance, the counting
hours have been changed.
BY more OF less insidious process, not
easy TO describe, the light O. the moon and
the witching hour OF midnight have been
completely discounted by the 5 O'Clock
tea table and a street promenade in the
garish light Of day. In other words, good
society now does its counting between
and 0 O'Clock in the afternoon.
n some minds this state Of things in
reassuring. proving as IL does that after all
courtship and marriage are not, as has been
limited. going quite out OF fashion. For
some time there has been a growing belief
ia some quarters that before long. in view
Of the rapid pace at which Americans live,
courtship. the good old custom that has
kept one class Of fiction writers in ma
terial for many centuries, will be elimi-
mated altogether from the social programme
over here. and that marriages will be ar
ranged, az in some foreign lands, by parents
and guardians without saying by your
leave" to the pair most concerned
But the prophecy has not yet come true.
To be sure the hours associated with court
ing have been shifted. but this circumstance
indicates rather a desire 10 retain than
10 abolish courts ship la the social pro-
Eramne II also proves that the custom
OF making ieisureiy evening Calls ~ prac-
tca'iy DEAD NOT 80 inuch oecAuse Oh GA
price as ior the reason 'ha' even young
men Oh socie's oouiu sun nho ,'iie 70 20
throuRh ma, o~Ie''ony ~hic" u'ey cannot
"ou'u We "a'u " ".'" 'a'',"oe
young woman d, hon'e 10 reos''e 'hefu'
Unless "'ueeo' mere was Son'e ro' oi
function going ON IN her own craving room
Inc hooeri socia' scheuu'e' u ~ scaroeiy
necessary 10 say from the peeiiihihg 10
the end OF the season. OF from November
Ia tb. lat. sprins means some sort of AN
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soihg Unless Ap'- 70 oner an excuse Ia
the form ~ n pllNsicians certificate This
applies equally to men and to women
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lounge "''" y" va" q"
Just lrsihhihg pus'1e~s or PROFESSIONAL
carver hnd the life strenuous For one
thins III. nunier of sysilabl. young msn
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than they do A. ~ Is, almost every man |
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