Bottled Tears.
♦ "Bottling up one's tears" has & real significance in Persia, where it constitutes an important part of the obsequies of the dead. As th« mourners are sitting round and weeping, the master of the ceremonies presents each one with a piece of cotton wool, with "which he wipei away his tears. This cotton is afterwards squeezed into a bottle, and the tears are preserved as a powerful and efficacious restorative for those whom every other medicine has failed to revive.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 October 1890, Page 2
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81Bottled Tears. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 October 1890, Page 2
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