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Show Shoe-Throwing Old Custom. Throwing old shoes wus not always coutlned to weddings, though the custom cus-tom nowadays has come to be associated asso-ciated entirely with the going away of brldul couples. Authorities differ as to the origin of thu practb'3 and Its exact slgnlHcuncu; It seems, however, us if It hud to do with the transfer ot property women being regarded as such among the nations In which the custom begun. It was In the seuso of continuing a sale or exchnnge that the Jews understood un-derstood the removal and giving of a shoo or sundal. When the kinsman of Houz consented to waive his claim upon the parcel of land which Naomi j would sell, ho "drew off his shoe," for 'this Is tho custom of Israel." I |