AND we still hear of them
Tine wedding cake is borrowed, from antiquity. "The original Roman marriage was i effected by the simple process of the bride and bridegroom breaking a cake of bread ! and eating it together. _ 1 This, in time, developed into the bnde cake. The bride cut it because it was the ■ dnt v of the woman to prepare food for the | man. Everybody knows the superstition ' about sleeping on wedding cake. Country i girls, even in this age of cynicism._ look forward to the weddings of their friends, so that they may get a piece of wedding 1 cake, which, parsed through a ring, has ! the. power to produce in dreams the vision j of a protective husband, i — Br “
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 2238, 20 March 1911, Page 2
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124AND we still hear of them Cromwell Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 2238, 20 March 1911, Page 2
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