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Show The Girl Proposes The inhabitants of Himia, In th Greek archipelago, are engaged al. most entirely ln sponge fishing. When a girl desires to marry she waits until she has obtained the number of sponges from die sea that corresponds corre-sponds with the number of years sha ' has lived. These she places in a silt net.which she presents to the man of (her idioica Should he refuse, his cliances of obtaining another- brida are remote, as usually the Himian maidens shun him as a punishment. |