Vienna holds its dead in loving remembrance. For days before November 1, the florists display all manner of wreaths, ribands and joral_ displays ly. Every Court of Peace," as the literal translation of the German word for cemeteries has it, is given even more attention than usual during the end of October and for several days the trams. leading to the principal seraveyards are so crowded that it impossible to find a seat on them, despite the face that a special motor bus service is instituted for! three days and a special arrange ment of tram traffic made to facilitate travel.
Candles to burn at the church sitars and in shrines at home are fold in various shops and outside all churches. Solemn high masses fare sung and special services held. Vienna "largely is Catholic and everywhere one torns candles are burning, but the candles before the pictures of the dead do not always express the most sorrow. Twa in the house of a friend whose! "Frivlein" (the usual term for nursery governess) gives me German lessons. She is the daughter of a late cavalry officer of distin-rushed family, who lost all his savings in the collapse of the Austrian ay Joan. Entirely alone in the world, Fraulein Elsa now earns. a livelihood by caving for children, to whom she is devoted. When T ran-in with a request to change the day of our lesson, she! asked me to come into her room to see the pictures of her father and! do not always keep them out," she said. "It is too ead; bat of course on All Souls Day' I burn candies to them."
There were several pictures of her handsome father and aristocrat tie mother in her tiny cabinet (a oom with only one window), but there was also another, a. young officer in the dashing Austrian "You lost your brother, too?" I queried, az she hesitated in front fof the picture, as if she wished to Speak of it but did not know how.
"No," she said, "that was my betrothed. But he was not killed. After the war we were both penniless and, of course—" (she spoke swith no bitterness but an acceptance of the inevitable)—"he had to marry money. I think he is happy. Thope 20. I do not permit myself to think of him often, but on this anniversary I have to burn a candle for the lover I lost."
Covostno, Dec. 24:—Legislation became effective on December._23, making it legal to purchase or sel rubber without coupons.—Reuter.
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