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Show Ceremony of Calling In 8paJn. Calling In Spain bilstles with ceremony. cere-mony. When a first visit Is paid, the hostess says at parting: "Your honor has taken possession of your house, for all I havo Is yours." If anything during tho call is admired, ad-mired, tho remark follows at once: "It is at your disposal." Tho answer to which must bo: "1 liopo my hostess will onjoy It for many years." Who n means allow of It, a woman has her box at tho theater. In this tho sceno between tho acts often resembles re-sembles an "at homo," whllo at tho end of tho play visiting Is carried on for an hour or moro while tho audi-onco audi-onco Is nominally awaiting Its carriages. car-riages. A hardship In a Spanish woman's life is tho long pc)lod of mourning Into which sho Is plunged for oven quite distant relatives. For n cousin, hooii perhaps but once, and who 1ms dlod a Hundred miles nwny, black Is worn for n year, during which tlmo all visiting Is stopped, tho piano Is locked nnd no ono looks out of tho window. |