Show tile the mourning Ru business siness in england they make wholesale work of the mourning business here A bereaved family cannot pile on too much crape and even the children are op oppressed presse out of all reason with the deepest dyed habil babil imenes of woe school boys are ara often seen with a wide band or chevron of crapo crape sewed permanently into their coat sleeves and the little girls are shrouded in black until their faces and the white of their eyes are all that is light in sight A family of six motherless young sisters seen out walking with the stricken father recently were in the customary suits of solemn black even to strings of sable craps crape around their little necks in place of collars when the sainted minted mother looks over the parapet of heaven and sees her dear ones thus disfigured ill let bet it makes her feel sorry she died an interesting estin g phase of mourning custom here with some is the publication of anniversary death notices these are classified under an 11 in memoriam heading and appear one two or more years from tile the date of the loved ones death for instance the times of say june 1 1887 may contain several of these 11 in memoriam notices of those who lied died june 1 or 1885 the notices are often inscribed bed 11 in loving remembrance and are usually put in by a surviving husband or wife I 1 am told that in such cases they are rarely kept up more mora than a year or two when a man is getting ready for another wedding lie he time to be fussing up 11 in memoriam paragraphs and rushing around with them to the papers london cor chicago tribune |