THE STORY OF A GARTER,

Dunstan Times, Issue 1255, 19 March 1886, Page 3

THE STORY OF A GARTER,

A garter has once more played a great part in jiistory. -In Alsace, by immemorial usage, the bride’s garter is divided among the wedding guests, and worn.by .them in their button holes. Qf. late, there was a marriage in the haute bourgeoisie of Orschweiler, and it so, chanced that the lady’s garter was a tricolour silk ribbon, -Nixt morning one of the party appeared at the railway station with the bit of silk in bis breast; whereupon he was rebuked by a staunch son of the 1 Fatherland, guard of a passing tran, Tor flaunting a French emblem. In a peaceful German town. The matter made some stir ; the public prosecu or heard of it, and with the sto’id, gravity 'of his race and calling, proceeded to indict the whole wedding party,, in* eluding several. prominent local officials. for their* disloyal conduct. But the wot thy functionary did not make much by his zeal. The cause was, in. due course heard aad determined- by the criminal tribune at Colmar/ and the Court has solemnly decreed that young ladles may wear their garters of any colour they like, and that no pains or penalties attach to those who carry the fragments at their weddings in the customary way. hi ot a French born bride will be married in the Rhine provinces this twelvemonth without tricolour garters, so dangerous is the effect of zeal in high places untempered by humour.