| Show SHOE TOKEN OF SUBJECTION Ancient Significance of Custom Which Is Now Looked Upon as Merely a Joke As specially applied to weddings there is a suspicion that the throwing of old shoes shoes shoes-or or new slippers for tor all I that that had had at first a significance which would surel surely be most objectionable to twentieth-century twentieth brides It seems seems to ave ti-ave been a token of the complete subjection of ot the b bride ide to her lord and and ril master In the East a shoe or a slipper was publicly borne at the head of the bridal procession in indication of the brides bride's subjection and at some Jewish weddings weddings' the bridegroom used to strike the bride a blow v with h hL shoe as a sign that she was was' thereafter to be su submissive to his will Among the it was the custom for forthe forthe forthe the bridegroom to kick the bride and for Cor her to to remove from his foot the shoe with which he had kicked her To this this' day there Is a common custom custom cus cus- tom in Russia for the bridegroom on onh h his s wedding night to require the bride bridet t to pull off of his boots In one of themis them themis is a whip and in the other a gift If sh she pulls off first the one containing the whip she gets a stroke from the lash an and Is to expect floggings thereafter thereafter thereafter there there- after but if the gift f is first disclosed her married life will be happy It is related of or Martin Luther that once after performing the wedding ceremony ceremony ceremony cere cere- mony for a couple he took off the bridegrooms bridegroom's shoe and placed it upon the brides bride's pillow as a sign that she should in all things and at all times Umes be le subservient to her ber husband |
