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Show Breach of Promise in Japan. Instead of suing him for breach of promise, prom-ise, this Ib tho method a Japaneso girl adopts for getting even with a faithless lover. Sho rises In the middle of tho night, puts on her prottieat dress, hangs a mirror round her nock and makes a head decoration of thrco lighted candles. In her loft hand she carries an offlgy of tho faithless swain, and In the right a hammer and nails. Sho walks to a sanctuary sanc-tuary and selects ono of the sacred trees and nails tho offlgy securely thereto. Sho then prays fervontly for tho doath of tho traitor, vowing that If her wish Is granted she will take out tho nails which trouble her god. Night after night sho comes with her potltlon, always bringing a cou-plo cou-plo of extra nails to further drive it homo, as It were, convinced that tho god will not hesitate to sacrifice a man to savo tho sacred tree. T. P.'s "Weokly. |