SWISS FUNERAL CUSTOMS.
Swiss funeral customs are most pi - culiar. At the death of a person the family inserts a black-edged announcement in the papers asking for sympathy and stating that ‘the mourning- turn’ will be exhibited within certain hours on a special day. In front of the house where the person died there is placed a little black table, covered with a little clack cloth, on which stands a black jar. Into this the friends and acquaintances of the family drop little blackmargined visiting cards, sometimes with a few words of sympathy on them. The urn is put on the table on the day of the funeral. Only men ever go to the churchyard, and they generally follow the hearse on foot.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XVIII, 6 May 1899, Page 605
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123SWISS FUNERAL CUSTOMS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XVIII, 6 May 1899, Page 605
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