From Grave to Gay.
--The custom of attending funerals for the purpose of getting a gratuitous carriage ride, and for enjoying one's self in "a promiscuous manner generally," has become so annoying and scandalous in
Cincinnati that several beneficial societies of that city have adopted resolutions not to attend funerals unless the number of "mourners" are restricted to the immediate family and friends of the decedent.
Appended to a funeral invitation which appeared in the
Cincinnati papers of Saturday, was the following notice:
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"The friends of the deceased will also take notice that the Society will not attend if there be more than six carriages and hearse at the funeral."
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