MATCHAMAKING POSIES.
Even in many English villages, flowers possess a decided significance for lovers. But perlmns they do not take quite the same role as the flowers of certain small villages and hamlets in Switzerland. There a bunch of edelweiss is quite seriously looked upon as a proposal of marriage, .it given by a man to a maid. 'J he thought underlying the quaint custom is tli'it hei' lover has risked his life to obtain the little bunch of edelweiss, which only grows in precipitous places. Should s".e a-rsipt toe ottering. the eng-, in t is at mu o anmunccd. \ - 1 • < ' -ms 'lea t, that of th., yming man who. instead of risking a y >l' .d ‘ 'n iti ii of 1 e ' stakes all i’i< a .i in-. |’r, he places, with a htt'e note on the window-sill of t',c i on <>' ip'i I’o fbo oh/ct of lus ndnrr.f-rvi anil win n she is away from l.cmr. I hen !>■■ i-iws hark to his work and waits patiently.
I v 11 ' .r + ii x l 1 ' n Oil nd gives ji u i j ' t s i,< She tar ’ i I ! j n<_ on the window- <’ < - " i ' -oping her i -n- b -t ‘•'it iild ®h» evon- - o I o I oon 1< f >ro it i« finite f<l ,t K'gndies an acceptance ef lie wooing.
The "I ’ stance between venM JtlMi nottry wider than most jeapfe !■»- K- : n*
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 288, 9 November 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)
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239MATCHAMAKING POSIES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 288, 9 November 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)
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