Show R preserving es erving strict silence in korea the women on their wedding day will not open their mouths to pc peak ak no mattl matter r what tho the temptation or provocation sometimes this silence la Is continued th through rough the first week of married life although no such custom exists in the western world extraordinary cases are not wun wanting ting in the early forties a new york lady undertook tor for a wager of to remain mute during the month of her married life ire her new mado made h hosband hs band who naturally was not in the secret was so duct incensed at his aridea behavior that thai h ho left her before her lask was completed only to return later when apprised of tho real reason for this unnatural silence el leuce on one anniversary of their wedding day a brussels couple quarrelled quarrel led so bitterly that the wife in a passion vowed that her husband should never again hear bear the sound bound of her voice she would there and then havo left the house but her now penitent husband implored her not to desert him to that extent only did his entreaties prevail for she icett the letter of her oath and never in her apo spouses uses pres presence euce did she abe unloose her ber tongue an austrian woman whose husband was in hiding biding from the authorities inadvertently betrayed his bis whereabouts I 1 to a neighbor who was decro ly in tho the pay of the pollee police As a result he was taken and received a term tarm of imprisonment so mach did his wife take to heart this misfortune which had been brou gli about by her gossip that site ene reso I 1 I 1 or the ie remainder of her lifo t to re ute e she could not make t tin even in her bus husbands banda favo ough h she received him on ith h the utmost affee tio lined ined an ob obdurate durato three years later |