Hardly an article. Just a couple sentences. And it was observed rather widely, for same reason
young people worked from sunup to sundown. For many it was the only chance to court. Lots
of jokes about it though. My favorite uncle told me one about young couple having horse go
lame, and having to take shelter with friendly farmer, whose wife made bundling arrangement.
Next morning, as they started for home, the girl's hat blew off, and went over a stone wall.
The young man stopped horses, but before he could get to the wall, the girl had already
retrieved her hat. When he protested that she should have let him get it, she said: "If you
couldn't get over that board last night, you'd never have been able to get over that wall."