A Danish Custom.
Apropos of the leading article in this issue on funeral reform, we might mention a curious custom that exists in Copenhagen. Pious folk in the Danish capital do not believe in the pagan custom of smothering the coffins of the dead and stifling the nostrils of the living with indiscriminate mazes of arum lilies and cabbage-roses and daffy-down-dillies and other ' flowers that bloom in the Spring — tra-la ! ' Instead the kindly and pious • friends of tlie corpse ' place upon the coffin neat cards which record that some subscription has been made, according to the donor's means, towards some charitable object, for the abatement of human suffering and woe. The custom might be introduced at Catholic funerals in New Zealand to the great benefit cf our deserving, and for the most part struggling, charities. Who'll begin ?
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 4, 22 January 1903, Page 2
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137A Danish Custom. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 4, 22 January 1903, Page 2
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