STRANGE CUSTOMS North of here people kill their children and eat them. Or so I'm told. At what age? I wondered. But no one knew. The wind is too cold, I've also heard. All the trees cut down long ago. It's the only way they can survive cruel winter, by burning their children -- they don't eat them, that's an old canard. Still others claim it's only some peoples north of here and they don't eat or burn their kids but bury them still alive and five years later dig up their bones that have turned to gold. I guess that's just the way love is. Mike Geary Memphis