Sugar House Bulletin | 1948-07-16 | Page 4 | Strange African Nuptial Custom Told over Air

Stranga African Nuptial Custom Told Over Air Mr. and Mrs. Hassoldt Davis, who described their African jungle honeymoon on CPS' "We, the People" July 6, also told of a strange nuptial custom practiced prac-ticed in French Guiana. There, when a couple voices matrimonial matrimon-ial intentions, relatives sew the pair of them up together in a hammock, stuffing a handful of ants in along with them. Next day, the couple is let out, and if they're still speaking kindly to each other, it's taken as a sign of enduring love and they're allowed to marry- Somehow, we don't think the idea ever will catch on here.