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Show Norway Wedding Feast One to Be Remembered A Norwegian housewife will spend months in the active preparation of a daughter's marriage feast. Friends, neighbors, acquaintances, kinsmen and Uinswomen come from far and wide. All must be welcomed. All must he fed and "refreshed," and without limit. lim-it. There must be cheese, sweet soups, puddings, fish and game In enormous quantities. To have any one of the e:ost numerous Items of drink or food give out or run short would be a dis-erace dis-erace which no'hing could wipe out. There must, above all, be brandy in mad nbundnnco. As a rule, several couples are married at the same time. This diminishes a waste of time, and concentrates to one occasion what would otherwise be spread over several. sev-eral. The gowns which the Norwegian bride wars are often of great value. They are frequently the property of the church, and are hired for a nom- inal sum. Other parts of the costume are often the church's, too. and the bride who cannot afford to purrha.se an elaborate bridal outfit can always hire one. |