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Show PRETTY LANGUAGE Or LOVE In Switzerland Flowers Are Made Uee of by Tho Who Seek Their Companlona In Life. In remote Alpine hnmleta and villages vil-lages especially In the Ilernese Ober-laud Ober-laud there still exist ancient and pretty pret-ty custom of proposing marriage by the lunguage of flowers. If a maid accept a bouquet of t deweisa from a accepts a bouquet of edelweiss from a him a her fiance, the Idea being that the man has risked hi life to obtain the flower for the woman he loves. Another method which exlht In the Canton of (ilarua Is for the young man to place a flowerpot i oiitulning a sin-gin sin-gin rose and a note on the window sill of the girl's room whi n he Is absent ab-sent If oiii home and wait perhaps da) s for a reply. If the maid takes the rose, the young man boldly enters en-ters the house to arrange mutters with her parents, but If the rose I allowed al-lowed to f i le away the proposal I rejected re-jected without a t Ingle word having been exchanged between the couple. Hornet lir.es a fickle girl will keep a young iiiiiii waiting a day or two for an answer, but whatever It may be It la considered final i |