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Show Planting Wedding Oaks. Princess August Wllholm, wife of the knlser's fourth son, has set herself tho task of reviving one of Germany's oldest customs, that according to which newly wedded couples Immediately af- 4 ter tho marriage ceremony plant n couple cou-ple of oak saplings side by sldo In a -park or by tho roadsldo of their native na-tive town. ' Tho town of Mulchauscn, In Thurln-gla, Thurln-gla, is tho first to respond to the princess' prin-cess' appeal. A municipal ofilclnl np-pears np-pears at tho church door after ovory wedding and Invites tho bride and bridegroom to drive with him In a car-rlago car-rlago to a new road near tho town and thoro plant oak saplings. Tho tree planting Idea wa3 started by a former elector of Brandenburg with tho object of repairing the rav- , ages caused by tho 30 years' war. Tho olector forbs.de young persons to marry mar-ry until they had plnnted a number of fruit trees. |