A Sweetheart's Wedding Bells
INTO my chamber comes the low Sweet sound of bells across the snow, And he who rings the chimes of glee Knows not what thoughts they waft to me,…
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6 stories in Illawarra's papers
Pure Gold! Chapter XXX.—(Contimmd.) Wedding Preparations
"And no great trouble either to a fine-looking girl like our Bella! "replied the fond mother with pride;" there are plenty of men who'd jump at a chance of her—she sha'n't fret any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pure Gold! Chapter Xxxix. a Wedding Far Away
UP and down the long length of the sunny esplanade crept a lumbering, crazy-wheeled invalid's chair. The little town of Vieres lay white and still under the shelter of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pure Gold! Chapter, XXXIX.—Continued.] a Wedding Far Away
"Don't be absurd, Rita; one can't have everything. I consider her very sensible." Rita was silent. Her natural instinct—the instinct of innocent girlhood, which was not as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Origin of Rice-Throwing at Weddings
THE Chinese Times gives the following version of the origin of the custom of throwing rice at weddings:—In the days of the Shang dynasty, some 1500 years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Startling Occurrence at a Wedding Party
A WEDDING party which was revelling in a restaurant at St. Mande (the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says) had a terrible fright. The bride…
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