Show ODD CUSTOMS IN SCHWALM Many quaint customs linger among the village folks who live li&tho valley of the Schwalm in western GerGirl May Be Proposed to When When a young man needs a many wife he always chooses her from She Is 3 or 4 Years Old He among the maidens of the valley does not waste much time between the engagement and the wedding Proposals Ar Always Made by a Go The young man asks the consent ot Between and 8oclal Magician the father who after discussing the Chooses a 'Lucky bridegroom’s Day and property and the dowry et his daughter and coming to a fav Time for the Marriage orable conclusion seals the Important business by witnessing the handshake Hankow — Western peoples differ of the young couple in the presence from Orieptals In many things but In of the relations Tw'o months later— none more than in love marriage and always between the hay and corn An Englishman courtship or Amerharvest — the wedding takes place ican for Instance finds the right girl Preparations for the wedding feast proposes Is accepted— and the rest is A pig has been occupy many days easy Not so In China slaughtered and the sausages hang in Betrothal and marriage In China Ion rows About 80 cakes are baked Are matters with which the parties In the ovens and clean fresh straw is most deeply concerned have generally rtrewn on the floor are Garlands little to do To start with a girl may made to adorn the house and a great have a proposal when she Is three or oakleaf wreath surrounding "A hearty four years old or her parents may welcome" is placed above the door of which amounts to the same thing the festive house Parents employ a or On the wedding morning the bride without whom (so the is awake early At about 7:45 o’clock Chinese proverb says) no betrothal she is already dressed in her fullest can be effected wedding attire She sits looking very The armed with a patient and dignified putting on her card bearing the ancestral name and head the bridal crown which has takthe eight characters which denote the ' en at least an hour to prepare It is hour day month and year of birth of trimmed with 25 rows of red gray :the candidate waits for matrimony and silver ribbons while the front is upon the family where the proposal is adorned with rosemary glass balls The girl’s parents perjto be made and flowers The bride also wears an haps favorably impressed institute elaborate stomacher embroidered in Inquiries as to the social position and and gold silver The bridal outfit of ancestral standing of the young man’s 15 petticoats a cloth skirt satin pinafamily themselves Having satisfied fore ornaments stockings gold emithereon that for the moment is as broidered garters silk handkerchief far as they can go and long gloves costs over 600 marks A fortune teller one of the rascally For two years of married life the hand that live on the milk and honey bride is permitted to wear lilac and of the land is at this juncture called green but after that she dresse en‘in He carefully examines the eight tirely in black characters aforesaid and then proTo the Schwalmer ceeds to pronounce upon a lucky day folk a wedding is the brightest and for a betrothal to take place The gayest moment of their lives For some time thereafter cards pass coat in his bridegroom and repass there is mueh solemn talk adorned with the dewwing insignia and all is fixed save the dellveiy of a has an Imposing appearance He too peculiar pasteboard card the passing wears a gorgeous wedding headgear ’of which is finally to settle the future an enormous erection almost hiding of the boy and girl This card resemhis whole face composed of many silk r red in bles a modern ribbons and orange yellow green or of a phoenix bearing the figure Perched upon the very top is a circudragon in gilt The boy’s family prolar basket filled with red flowers vides two of these The dragon card balls and rosemary The bridesglass gives the ancestral and given name Annibale has suddenly an obscure antiquary Benedettl of Orvletto maids have so much gold embroidery of the boy’s father his own given achieved fame by a discovery which has aroused great Interest throughout upon their stomachers and ribbons mame the precise time of his birth one day recently in the Piazza delle Slgnorla at Florence to that they absolutely gutter in the sunItaly Pausing and ot- study Benvenuto Cellini’s famous status of Perseus which stands in the Log-- ( the name of the shine her data fit del Lanzl Signor Benedettl became aware that viewed from the rear The guests and relations having The other card is taken with conthe helmet is formed to represent face which with the hair beneath greeted the young pair with a speech siderable pomp to the girl’s family is It as a beard bears a marked resemblance to Cellini curling himself The city the Bells wedding progress begins ‘duly filled in with ancestral particu“ciceroni" assert that they have long been aware of the existence of this face as moves towards the procession lars and is then returned and retain-e- but have not attached any Importance to It It is etrange to think that so ring the church With a serious dignity by the boy as a binding document Interesting a feature of the statue has escaped the notice of art circles and the bride steps to the side of the best After this neith students for a period of over 400 ' jof his engagement years man while the proud bridegroom The walks beside the bridesmaids glittering procession stops at the litPLAGUE OF INDIAN MONKEYS QUEER PORCUPINE tle village church waiting for the end of the service Presently the church A plague of monkeys-somyears door is opened and the procession enago sorely troubled the officials at a ters the crowded to the building small station on the Saran railway sound of the ringing of bells and the in Northwest India Trucks full of music of the organ for grain export were often stored The clergyman after addressing the up In the station and the monkeys and they bridal pair blesses them came down in large number from a seal their marriage by Joining hands neighboring grove to help themselves No rings are exchanged to the grain picking holes in the tarr paulin roof of the wagons THIS MAY BE A METEORITE The officials were wearied out with keeping watch and scaring away the thieves who daily grew bolder till an ingenious guqrd hit upon a strategem For several days sweets and fruits were put on the roofs of the wagons with the result that the whole of the monkey colony were attracted to the spot and soon became perfectly indifferent to man The remarkable animal here picturOne morning when they were all a or ed is the porcupine “busily feeding an engine was stealthof Western New Guinea It Is ily attached tr the wagons and sudcan break the engagement about the size of a large cat and bel- denly the train moved ofT The mon er party jwithout the gravest of reasons In- ongs to the group of very primitive keys were quite scared and made no citing again the fortune teller much marsupials known as monotremes of attempt to escape sitting crouched las westerner would call in a legal which the platypus and the till the train had gone sevon any matter of moment the echinda of Australia are the best together eral miles and stopped at a Jungle family of the boy then determine the known types The body of these ex- Then they wanted no hint to leave llucky day for the Feast of Betrothal traordinary creatures is covered with Every monkey leaped down howling For from betrothal to marriage occa- short blackish fur mingled with sharp and fled into the Jungle whence they The mouth 1b placed at the never returned to trouble the sions often arise demanding the fulfil- spines railway rites of a long snout lment of various extremity Wedding days also are decided not which protects a long ONCE WAS A DELICACY CROW but by tongue carrying a sticky secretion !by the parties to be married who termites these social magicians reap and is used for capturing One of the most curious of natural Peacock pie which figured at the jrlch fees Generally a member of the upon which these creatures principalin Mlchlgaif is found at St formations Elizabethan banquet held to celebrate or a trusty ly feed The limbs are very powerful family of the bridegroom It k on the upper peninsula friend takes the eight characters re and the claws well adapted for dig- Midsummer day is not a delicacy aIgnace voncanlc of seemingly formation to all epicures tempt Still are likely nocturnal These animals jferred to above to a fortune teller who ging Rock and rock called St Anthony’s selects lucky days and times for the in their habits sleeping during the most of us would rather eat peacock to a rises and out of earth the conjuts than some of the other birds marriage cutting of the welling gar- daytime in some crevice beneath a sumed There is a In the height of about 60 feet by our forefathers ments the placing of the bridal bed in rock or log the long snout being thirteenth the heron the slight vegetation where dust has colthe body century beneath tucked If of away the bridal the finishing position crane the crow the stork the cor- lected in the crevices Many tourists they immediibed the embroidering of pillows and alarmed while feeding and geologists visit the rock each morant and the bittern were considthe entering of the sedan chair of the ately tuck the snout under the body ered Yet the year and the latter are of the opinion excellent for the table and squat tight down to the ground ibride on the day of her marriage in any hare and the patridge were despised that is a meteorite themselves Bearing in mind that special days partially burying food was ever served and have to be chosen for the carrying out dead leaves or rubbish that may be at as the houses neither of the wealthy in HER GRANDCHILD OWN BABY hand duties connected with the Is This Cellini’s Pace? of all it is easy to understand that both families are busy for some time prior to the actual date of the ceremony If the families are rich money is spent having anylike water Everybody thing to do with the actual arrangements so wear themselves out with their various activities that when the day has come they are too fatigued to Indulge in the feasting that heralds the wedding Cat and Rat Mummified ' - Dog 8aves Fourteen at Fire owe St Louis — Fourteen persons thelr lives to Jack a dog who barked warning that a fire raged In the flat where they live who was burned to death while barking in front of a doorway where he thought the occupants jof the flat had not been warned Prisoners Object to Barber New York— Temperamental prisoners in the tombs have complained tabout the way the prison barber (Shaves them and have asked permission to use their own safety razors A woman who is stepmother to her and who has a own children born in the direct line has been discovered near of descent Mrs Christiana Mich Kalamazoo mother of ten chilWorkinger dren Her eldest daughter married Charles Strabel and after becoming died the mother of three children Strabel married Shortly afterward the the second of Mrs Workinger’a daughters and was divorced from her herself was Then Mrs Workinger A few days ago married to Strabel a baby was born to her The child is own woman’s the stepgranddaughter She is also grandmother ot her own children t TWO BIG Ireland workmen found the remarkable While excavating In Waterford Is the mummy of a eat In the act of killing a rat object here pictured death They are wonand It Is evident the animals both met instantaneous derfully well preserved and the ekln covering the skeletons is hard as dried leather 'll FAMILIES DOWN TO THE FACTS BARE Young Minister’s Had Have Passion for Results That Might Been Anticipated The announcement ot Miss Helen Miller Gould's betrothal led one of the charity workers of New York to say: “Marriage Itself will not be able to quench Miss Gould's passion for giving Apropos to this passion she once told me a story “There was a yotfng minister 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