BRIDAL GRAVES.

NZ Truth, Issue 818, 16 July 1921, Page 5

BRIDAL GRAVES.

At the funeral of Miss • Howes, ti nurse at' Hanwell Mental Hospital, Middlesex (Eng.), "who die 6 recently, just before her marriage should havo taken place, her fiancee dropped into the grave the, floral ornaments thatwere to have decorated the weddingcake. The flowers from the cake were not scattered pell-mell, but were worked so as to represent an empty chair. The most famous case of a bereaved man burying things m his beloved's grave is that of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, who caused a manuscript volume of his poems to be put m tho coffin of his wife, famous before her ' marriage as the beautiful Mrs. Siddaf. These poems were afterwards taken out. Mrs- Parnell. who died recently, was buried with the letters which tho famous Irish leader sent her.