ENGAGEMENT

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• #327

  If you are a bridesmaid three times you will never stand in the middle.

  Baldwinsville, N. Y.
• #328

  Three times a bridesmaid, never a bride.

  New England.
• #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.