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Show HINT FOR LATE STAYERS, Custom Borrowed from the Doers to Get Rid of Dores. In South Afl lea candles me Used for llghllng purposes In the liome-anil liome-anil when a young liner maiden lui -gentlemen vlsitois. tin- mother hihI a pin In the candle, and when H l..i-burued l..i-burued to the pin the callers uiiib-, stand thai It is time for their de purtuie. Mis. Uarly, a soclet tnalion of Waslilnglon. recently m e n lslt in the Transvaal, and was Inipies'-id with tho custom of the Moors that she ilclci mined to lutiodiico It into her own home. Consequently the electric elec-tric lights weie lemoved and caudles substituted In the drawlug-iooin .Mr. Slalale, a fioqiiout though not alwas welcome caller, was one of the first visitors to call after Ihe inauguration in-auguration or tht- new custom, lie witnessed the placing or the pin In the candle by .Mis. Curly, ami after, she had gone ventuieil lo luqulie "Why, .Miss ICaily, does your mother moth-er slick a plu In the cap lie?" "Oh." responded tlm young woman with an air of appaient Innocence, "mother learned that In South Aft Ira as a way ot sending home the lloers " Harper's Weekly. |
