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Show A KABYLE MARRIAGE. Y& Ceremony Is Complicated and Wia& Up With an Exciting Incident. The wedding ceremony among tht Kabyles is interesting because of its comparative resemblance to the customs of the old Greeks and Romans and ven to those which still prevail in fiequea tered parts of Franca Here it is th girl's father who exacts a wedding portion, por-tion, a sum of about 8, for which the bridegroom has generally to rely upon the advances of his friends. Often, too, the young man Las not a house .for hia bride, in which case his friends set to work and build one, no very difficuU matter. , On the wedding day the brido Is leJ through the villages in the neighbor hood, mounted on a mule and escorted by friends and relations, who shout and flie guns again and again. The various householders hasten forth to offer her a gieveful of beans, nuts or dried figs. Oi these she takes a handful which sh kisses and then replaces in the sieve. All the offerings are collected in sacks by the old women of the procession as contributions to the young people's lar der. At the bridegroom's house the girl's hands are washed with liquid butter Then they give her some fresh eggs, which she breaks an the mule's head and inside the unhappy animal's ears, thereby, it is believed, counteracting any evil designs against her and her husband's happiness. Before entering the house she drinks milk, fresh anr our, and also water, and scatters ove her shoulder a handful of barley, whoa and salt for the good of the faaiily. The husband then approaches her and Ares a pistol above her head to signify that thenceforward he has the power ol life and death oyer her. Not infrequently infrequent-ly he makes the symbol even more emphatic em-phatic by firing into her headdress and setting her aflame. This done, little remains re-mains except for the youth to lift thi lady in his arms and carry her bodilj Into his house. All the Year Rouai |