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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 121, 19 June 1909, Page 4

Ijidertakers are unknown in Japan. j 0;i the death of a .person it i- the <-u«lom Tor his nearest relatives' to make liis eollin and liurv him. The mourning is not used uiitil after the funeral. Tlie cross mark still used occasionally instead of a signature did not originate in ignorance. ft was always appended to signature* in mediaeval times as all attestation of good faith. The singular custom of the bridegroom 'being Hogged iliy the relations of the bride 011 the marriage-day still obtains amongst at least three peoples of the world—in the extreme north-east of IKjlieria. in Homoo, ami among some of the Arali tribes of the Xill)inn Desert. In all three eases the idea seems to■ Hie that tire bridegroom, in order to prove '■himself "a man," must .be able to under- | go a considerable aniannt of .physical ' suffering without flinching. The word "gipsy," or "gjjpsy," means I aivEgyptian, and this meaning is founded on the supposition that gipsies came : from" Egypt. It is somewhat curious j that thfe French (relieve them to come I from Bohemia, nnd so call them Bohemians. As a mutter of fact, however, I the real home of the gipsies was India, j whence tlwy iwcre driven by invading ! bwdes,