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DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], July 2, 1864, p. 1, c. 1
Novel Plan of Courtship.—If marriage is a lottery prizes are as apt to be drawn in the following as any other:
At a wedding recently celebrated, were present some twenty-five young persons, all of them in a condition which for various reasons, they generally concurred in regarding as undesirable—the “unengaged.” One of the gentlemen of the party suspected the prevalence among them of feelings that might easily be exchanged for others indefinitely more fixed and agreeable. He accordingly proposed the choosing of a President, a person worthy of all confidence, whose duty it should be to receive from each individual a folded paper, inscribed with the name of the person handing it in, and also with the name of another person of the other sex, whom the first would be willing to marry. The President in additional to the restraints of his own sense of honor, was to be put under a solemn pledge of eternal secresy. All refusing to accede to the proposition were for the time to leave the room. Those whose choice was reciprocal, that is, were to be privately informed, while the selections of the others were to remain undisclosed. The result was that the trial was made, all shared in the experiment, and eleven couples were found to have made themselves happy; and their several unions were afterwards consummated.
Vicki Betts
Novel Plan of Courtship.—If marriage is a lottery prizes are as apt to be drawn in the following as any other:
At a wedding recently celebrated, were present some twenty-five young persons, all of them in a condition which for various reasons, they generally concurred in regarding as undesirable—the “unengaged.” One of the gentlemen of the party suspected the prevalence among them of feelings that might easily be exchanged for others indefinitely more fixed and agreeable. He accordingly proposed the choosing of a President, a person worthy of all confidence, whose duty it should be to receive from each individual a folded paper, inscribed with the name of the person handing it in, and also with the name of another person of the other sex, whom the first would be willing to marry. The President in additional to the restraints of his own sense of honor, was to be put under a solemn pledge of eternal secresy. All refusing to accede to the proposition were for the time to leave the room. Those whose choice was reciprocal, that is, were to be privately informed, while the selections of the others were to remain undisclosed. The result was that the trial was made, all shared in the experiment, and eleven couples were found to have made themselves happy; and their several unions were afterwards consummated.
Vicki Betts