Show T RICE THAT IS WASTED A vicar of ot Birmingham England would have everybody do away with the ancient practice of ot showering new newly newly newly ly married couples with rice because the rice which might be put to a good use is thus wasted The vicar says sa s that two pounds of or rice are thrown ono onu a week eek at at least one bride and groom in every everyone one of ot churches That is a to total total total tal of nearly pounds of rice a year for Birmingham alone If the vicars calculation is correct many millions of or pounds of rice are thrown away way a every year oar in pursuance of the superstition that a rice shower means good luck to the newly wed He Ue believes it would be an act of ot Christian charity to send alt all of this rico rice to the starving people of or India Japan or any other othar country count that hap happens happens happens I pens to be stricken with famine Do you know the waste does seem a pro prodigious prodigious one And it is Just as unnecessary unnecessary essary as It Jt is prodigious Any bride and groom would cheerfully consent to the omission of the rice ceremony Un Unless less you are a very old married man manor manor or woman you undoubtedly remember that grains of rice doe dropped out of the most unexpected places in your our clothes for several days after alter the great event And it might have kept a family from starving Of course the proposition preposition of or the Birmingham vicar will not be ba taken talton seriously The newly wed will wUI con continue continue continue to be showered with rice and old shoes as in the olden days but the Ue suggestion has sonic some elements of good about It The obvious difficulty is that if the practice were wera abandoned it help the famine sufferers the least little bit because the friends of the br Idos and groom groo groom would not buy any rice And if they did lid buy it it would never occur to them to send the stuff to India or any other foreign land Q |