329. Don’t let another person put on your engagement ring, taken from your finger, or the engagement will be broken.
Bathurst, N. B.
330. The mother-in-law’s test of the incoming daughter-in-law is to place a broom on the floor. If the daughter removes it and places it on one side, she will be a good housewife; if she steps over it, she will be a bad housewife.
Labrador.
331. A girl will have as many children after marriage as she has “holders” given her before marriage.
Eastern Massachusetts.
ATTIRE OF THE BRIDE.
332. If you try on your wedding dress before the ceremony, you will not be happy.
Cambridge, Mass.
333. The bride should wear a borrowed garter, and also a yellow garter.