Show P P. Strict Silence In Korea the women on their wedding wed wedding ding day will not open their mouths to peak no matter what the temptation temptation tion or provocation Sometimes this silence Is continued through the first week of married life Although no such custom exists In Inthe Inthe inthe the Western world extraordinary cases casesI I ara not wanting In the early forties a New York lady undertook for a aI I wager of to remain mute during I the month of ot her married life Her new-made new h who naturally naturally ally was not in the secret was so much incensed at his brides bride's behavior that he left her before belore her tasK was completed com corn only to return later when apprised apprised apprised ap ap- of ot the real reason for tor this unnatural unnatural un natural silence On one anniversary of or their wedding day a Brussels couple quarrelled so bitterly that the wife In a 1 passion vowed that her husband should never again hear the sound of ot her voice She would there and then have left leU the house but her now DOW penitent husband implored her not to desert him To that extent only did his entreaties pre pro I volt 1 for phe e kept the letter of or her oath and never never in neverin in her presence did she unloose her tongue a aAn An Austrian wom woman womas whose husband nd was in hiding from the authorities In inadvertently Inadvertently advertently betrayed his whereabouts to a neighbor who was secretly In the thep p pay y of ot the police pollee As a result he was taken and received a term of ot Imprison ment meat So much did his wife wire take to heart this lUs misfortune which had been brought about by her gossip that she resolved for the remainder of ot her life to remain mute She would not make an exception even In her husbands husband's favor for although h she received him himon himon himon on his release with the utmost affection tion she maintained an obdurate silence till tin her death three years later |