Show girls of provencal ical pop question in novel way following a medieval custom pro dencal girls pop the question writes an avignon franco france correspond corre correspondent spon d ent in the detroit free press the young woman makes a delicious provencal cake called a then she places it with a jar ot of wine somewhere outside her house in fact certain old houses bouses have niches in the swall all made especially for or this purpose by the builders when her prospective husband husban d coma along he eats the cake and drinks the wine finally he be leaves a token in the niche usually a silken sash or scarf this Is his way of saying will you marry me she answers the following sunday simply by wearing the scarf or whatever it was wag when she goes to church A few weeks later the Ned wedding ding bells ring out but it if the provencal ical girl prepared the foug gasse as a joke it if she considered it only as a pleasantry the she says ys no to her lover by offering him a handful of oats oata holding up the he bridal party after the wedding is a common custom in provencal A flower decked rope Is stretched across the street and kept there until the bridegroom pays toll to cupids cupida highwaymen further when a french girl marries it ft young man from another village her old friends barricade the road until the groom has treated everybody to drinks instead of resenting this cus tom om the bride judges her popularity by the size of the crowd that stops her er |