LANGUAGE OF UMBRELLAS
There is a language of umbrellas as of, flowers. For instance, place your umbrella in a rack,- and it will often indicate that it will change owners. To open it quickly in the street means that somebody's eye is going to be in danger. To shut it quickly signifies that a hat or two will probably be knocked off. - -An umbrella carried over a - woman, the man getting nothing but the drippings of the rain, signifies courtship. - When a man has the umbrella, and the woman the drippings, it indicates marriage. To swing your umbrella over your shoulder signifies, ' I am making a nuisance of myself.' To put an alpaca umbrella by the side of a silk one signifies, ' Exchange is no robbery.' To. lend an umbrella indicates, ' I am a fool.' , To return an umitfrella means— well, never mind what it means; nobody ever does that.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 14 February 1907, Page 38
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150LANGUAGE OF UMBRELLAS New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 14 February 1907, Page 38
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