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Show Queer Mairiap-e Custom. LONDON, Jan 10. A Swansea lecturer, lec-turer, who recently returnee! from a trip to Germany, tells u story of u marriage custom which she witnessed (here. A woman was throwing JugH. etc., out of her house Into the cobbled street. This w;is tho signal for the neighbors to bring along basketfuls of old bottles, tins and earthenware to keep up the din. The explanation was that there was to be a marriage Of one of the daughters from that house on the following fol-lowing morning and as the bride's futhtr had agreed t replace all the broketi utensils with new articles, an easy way of getting rid of cracked and damaged crockery was adopted. i |