Show FOOLISH CUSTOM ABOLISHED the national food administrator has put the ban on rice throwing at bridal parties and candy heart throwing at birthday parties such is the announcement which the press dispatches contain and we are frank in stating that we greet the reformation with sincere pleasure showering bridal pairs with old shoes and rice and grotesquely pla carding their trunks and handbags are customs that belong to the back ages aud and just where the funny part comes in has always been a 11 mystery now that the food administrator has declared that no moro rice must be thus wantonly wasted let us hope the balance of 0 the senseless ceremony which custom has forced into the sacred rites of getting married will likewise be relegated to the pa post past st and young people can go and be united together in the bonds ot of wedlock without the haunting fear of being made a public spectacle by their friends |