MARRIAGE -SUPERSTITIONS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12167, 16 January 1903, Page 2

MARRIAGE -SUPERSTITIONS.

/'Blessed js.the bride on whom the 's\m "sßines.^ " 'j '. / .- i A bride should- use 'no pins^ in ' Jher Welding .clothes.' • , . There 'isr-an ,old superstition against •-mWiS^geß "in' the>>, month of . May. r .J. J > tib^'Qgii. ; it'''ite'i.be' admitted, that it springs from' 1 nothing- more unluclsy thari s 4Be fact- that «%he -Komans ' held festivals in thajr. month in honour" of tße -dead". r i ; '-„■: i ■ ~ • " ' . >_A.Jb°?lde^i.Vst_,weae nothing gxeeu. * as that'; 6oldur is to* be emblematic:' of evil. . ; *"*-'". ;To chaiigethe name and -npt the. letter;;:^ change for 'the worse and i£>tf tjie; bßtter." s ; •- •; vln Yorkshire it was. customary to ; pour, hot water ( over ithe jdoors^te^ af,tpr the\ couple had gone to vkeep the: threshold warm for .another bride. An . old rhyme says ' eyery f bride should wear : i" ' '.t. t ."■",- . .''Some^King- borrowed, Bometbing - -blue r---'r ---' .-—-.— •-/— - -■ - -One thing.' w-oi?n, rest all new/

" ON- MARRYING AND GIVING IN v. > - -MAREIAGE;"

WHAT JIRS NEISH THINKS.

" How-to CKdose a Husband,' by* .Sfrs^Neish," 5 writes" '''Arthur Pen-. .dpny"s':..in,;VJßpftlva of . , Tq-day: » ,and Books of To-morrow/ . is a.bbok w^hiclr -will- no- . doubt attract many. • I. read in- Utrs' pages that' in farmer dayr^ "more marriages ,were made=/by mothers \ than* by Heaven, .but in. these: days mai*piages tire made by jfirls, aff^ this is an" excellent hand book fotf '-fcfcter- girls'.^My only doubt is. whether •'it. will;, assist anyone to •make NUp- Eer.mind.' t It -may -unsettle someur : According to ; 3Trs Neish, you mlust refuse the. man I 'who "proposes- at a* dance, must accept him .whf> offers Klraself at a pjenic. of curates unlesa. they have private means. Cur,ates are, always -ready to, dasb into . „matriinQny.\ i)on't be jready^ ,to dash, with 1 thjem. Jtl' would be doing Iffrs/Neish an injustice to omit io say that she includes chapters both upon iipw. to a husband %and how to' choose a ( wife. She seriously counsels men not to -marry -a- woman who woh/'t be'abl^ quito easily to get in and out of doors .by the time she isj. forty. But, then,, how is anybody to. know' and then Ido not .quite like "the unkind allusion to ' "the for-. tietb ; - birthday." Women, of forty are , by no means'" the least attractive. • Eemember always William Watson's po_Bm :— , • '% \ •'„,, , S^> have I geen in, some fair woman's* face, ' -*' - While viewless yet- , was time's more r gross imprint,. . ' / * Soma-- faint c invasion of the vandal ' /years / ' •'•• ( * Seem deeper beauty -than youth s , ' cloudless grace. t ,< , ,\' ' \ "Don't marry &n old- mate. There is^np such!" thing as being an old matfs darling except in the House of Commons Terrace. , /When you marry/ said 'a father to his -daughter, 'I will not 'allow you to throw 'yourself away on one' of . the giddy, frivolous young fellows I see ab6ut. h. «naji , select for you a .staid; sensible, mid-dle-aged mail. . Wha* do >*^ sa Lr «Q« Q oria about fifty years of age 1 ? Well, father/ was the reply, 'if it is quite tho same, to you, I should prefer two of? twentyrfi.ve/ 'Marriage/ _*ays Krs . Neish,! 'may often be a stormy lake, 4m% celibacy is- a muddy horse-pond. The smalt boy being asked what is a "bachelor, replied- more happily, . Abacheibrisa who does not marry; his -wife/ " ' ; ] -. ;