OCR Text |
Show A Mohnmmeilan Wedding. The Calcutta native papers lately gave a long and graphio account of the marriages mar-riages of two young men, the sons of a local magnate. Nautches, illuminations, flags, furniture aud decorations are duly described in the most minute details. But no mention is made of the brides, nor doe a single feminine name appear in the longthy list of guests who attended. at-tended. Fifteen hundred turned up, including in-cluding niaharajahs, nawabs, mirzas and syuds galore, and the affair went off brilliantly in every way. But poor Nour-mahal Nour-mahal did not get even a peep at it, unless un-less surreptitiously through some chink in the zenana. It is further stated that all the guests made a point of offering felicitations to the bridegrooms, but no good wishes did they bring for the brides. Vet, odd to say , all seemed to have enjoyed themselves greatly, or the festivities festivi-ties would not have been prolonged until un-til far into the night. London World. |