Notes and Events.
, » *- Though there arc no local weddings in view yet there ia always an. interest in wedding cake. It is much too important an article at such gatherings not to have some groundwork from which it baa been raised to its present height. A young lady in one of the American periodicals has been writing up the matter and has discovered that when in ancient Eome a maiden was wedded) according to coi\farreatio, she always carried three ears of wheat in her hand, while over her head was broken a simple cake of fay and mola salsa, as a presage of plenty and an ample abundance of the good things of life. This simple act has, in later years, presaged over things, besides takes, being broken over a wife's head. " The coming event casts its shadow before " is illustrated by the Melbourne Punch as the Ru9siau bear having his reflection cast upon Australia.
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Manawatu Herald, 30 May 1896, Page 3
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155Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, 30 May 1896, Page 3
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