The custom of throwing rice at weddings is said to have originated in China some 1500 years B.C. Scandal is what one half the world takes a pleasure in inventing, and the other half in believing. “Letters,” says an old writer, “arc the very nerves and arteries of friendship—nay, they arc the vital spirits and elixir of love, which in case of distance and long absence would be in hazard to languish and moulder away without them.”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 11, 10 June 1893, Page 2
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77Untitled Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 11, 10 June 1893, Page 2
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