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Throwing Rice And Slippers

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
September
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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In the Septeiriler Ladies' Home Jounnal Edward W. Bak notes the plkmac oí the pretty custonn af casting a smiaJl parcel oí rice or a dainty slipper aftor a. departías bride and gnooam-an tmspotosn Godspeed. ■The (laijity ile alsw says, "üas beem transjOTnyed lata tihe old sdïoe of domibtful o'Pigita, amd tbrown wlth fio ree and accaracy, caueing no nd oí distoomifort. And iituis, is whai wo p-retty custams hare .legeaerated Sm.o. oihey. hare been vuigaüzed, amd, .tlliere'jore, the saaner they pass lnü dUiise Obe better. 'iihe seatlm0t oL ih,e cjMbams bas beea loet, Ktee Qjid ehioes are na langer omens f gicxxl ïuck. The modem thrower cf fhisjin liias transformad them int missiles with Vhictf 1 anaoy aad mortlify fhe bride aad gntxwn. Toe better class of people bare already beguun to eubstitute a Khiowex of rose petals, and flhis new and far more )teaurtiifiil idea is rapidly beimg MMowedv , We nïigfht have pv-esery. ed he ald ciistloma, but we luave jiöt,. Henceja:-th, pi-cniiscous rice-tlurowing and tttue casting of odd sltuoes at.wedklings will be left tía the bo-oc-s.of our mtofde:-n sooiety, int:o whose luands tibíese acts nave Jallea, and wlio seeou Lappieet -wliou they can cMivcí't the pracetul Cusföamls o-f oldeii ïimes into practical jjkos." Ube Juiy e.u'iiLiu'-! oí fliuj railroads oí tSbtd eauíiütn-y atwkw a mtairked im)ronanemrt over Jujy of las't year or oí tibe precedünugf. This vil! be mciaussaglnfe to tito bhjousaaide of raitloiacl miüa tlwough; t'lie comntry Trhose uttltude íiq fa,Tor ot' n-cmnd imouey as rail was ;i:l extcepioelj; iinioirhiuit issue , oí tHiL campaign, and 1hse -Motes dia mtuch t turn, the iilc j battle lia iavBir oí McKlnley iuuI e i;iiul cumency.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier