Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — Throwing the Shoe. [ARTICLE]

Throwing the Shoe.

The peasants of Southern France have tiie credit of originating tiie familiar custom of throwing an old shoe after the newly-wedded pair. It was, moreover, the rejected suitor who first made it popular. The peasant bride is conducted by her friends to her new home, while tiie young husband Is mnde to halt at a couple of hundred yards from the house. If there is a rejected suitor, he then arms himself with an old wooden shoe ami flings it, with ids aim, nt the bridegroom as he makes a dasli for the house. When tiie shoo is thrown it is understood that tiie last feeling of ill will lias Ih*cii flung away with It.—New York Tribune.