| Show odd leap year customs in england leap year Is supposed to confer upon the fair sex the privilege ot choosing life partners for better or tor worse but the custom is more honored in the breach than in the observance the gypsies especially in hungary enjoy and make a very ex use of the right at all times in accordance with an ancient custom thus a marriageable young gypsy girl in the land of the magyars as eoon as her heart Is smitten tabes good care that the shall hear of the havoc he has wrought and have a chance of consoling her with this praiseworthy object in view she has a love letter incited places a coin in a piece of dough bakes it and throws the billet doux during the night into the bedchamber of her bridegroom elect then she possesses her soul in patience and awaits developments the burmese maiden begins her mar ariage campaign at a much earlier stage in order to get together a goodaly gathering of young men from whom to choose she places a lamp in her window at night it Is known the lamp of love and entices all those youths who are candidates for the order of benedict in sunny andu lusia the peasant girl whose heart has been stolen by a st alvart young husbandman prepares a tasty pumpkin cake and sends it to his home if he eats it and the Andal girls take good care to make it highly edible the pair are forthwith betrothed london telegraph |
