Show QUEER WAYS IN OTHER LANDS THE heads of all C chines babies are ara shared when they a are re a month old A TOBACCO pipe is seldom seen in spain only cigars and cigarettes are smoked IT is reported that a measure prohibiting wakes at funerals in in england will be included in the omnibus bill of the government at the coming session of parliament tim THE custom is universal in madrid of closing one of the two outer doors of the house when a person dies this door is kept closed for a novena or a period of nine days LOST children in japan do not long remain main astray it is the custom for parents to label their children with their addresses so that i in a case they go astray any wayfarer may send them home I 1 an english tradition southampton fields known to curiosity seekers as the ne field of the forty footsteps is a small plat of ground lying directly to the rear of the british museum london tradition says that two brothers sometime during the duke of Mon mouths rebellion engaged in a deadly duel ea upon this little piece of vacant ground both were killed when the grass began to in the following spring there were forty dead patches in it corresponding 5 sp exactly in shape and size to impressions left by human feet superstitious ious people said that they were the last steps taken by the brothers before exchanging the fatal shots to this day the place is known by the name given above philadelphia press j emily reared mr winter bottom from the head bead of tho the stairway these socks bocks you laid out for me are not mates neither are your feet dear answered mrs sweetly from the hall below chicago tribune |