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Show Mourning Vagaries. "Mourning Is not what It used to bo," said an undertaker. "In fact, I expect to boo It go out altogether In tho nnxt ccn'uo or so. Perhaps It Is lust ns well. No young widow, I'vo heard say, cun wear mourning without with-out looking like an ndventuress. "Hut In tho seventeenth century widows not only woro mourning, but their bed curtains were black, nnd tha sheets and pillow cases had n blark edging, like Btntloncry. Kvcn their llngcrlu had a mourning bnnd. "In Italy tho nobles of tho Hennls-sanco Hennls-sanco curried their mourning ns far as their knives nnd forks, which had obouy Instead of Ivory handles. "Orny cloth superceded black for mourning In tho eighteenth century. Tho fashion lasted about twenty years. Then It died out, as It had sprung up, myBtorlously." |