Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 19 | Arm Chair Journeys

y 9 Atom Arm Chair Journeys By Priscilla Ring Turkey Sept 1 AT AP- Though Turkish city women have westernized their love affairs and weddIngs Anatolian peasants cling to the four traditional ceremonies o of marriage Village girls still let their parents choose their husbands and still have one ambition ambition-a hope chest filled with at least sets o of underwear stockings and towels all made by their own hands to be distributed among the wedding guests Once the hope chest Is full ull mothers moth moth- ers ens ot of marriageable sons inspect the girls girl's handiwork and i if talk talle ot of marriage contracts The parents arrano arrango all formalities and anda a village boy and girl are legally man and wife before they have seen each other First amon among the four ensuing ceremonies Is tho brides bride's bath on a aMonda Monda Monday The Tho gu gusts women gather in the hall ot of the tho public bath Married women must wait alt out In inthe the tho hall ball while girls s lead the lie bride into the bath where they tAke of off her white tinsel sparkling wedel lag Ins own gown but leave on her head the crown with tinsel l streamers and on her breast the tho gold coin sent by the groom They wrap her In a a. huge embroidered towel and P on her feet wooden slIppers with very high heels sO that all the guests s may maysee see her hel Undressing and draping themselves themselves them them- selves In towels the girls s conduct the bride three times around the pool with laughter and singing while incense Is burned anI and Colored candles lighted Then all plunge Into the pool and everyone everone takes n a turn at snatching the lucky tinsel streamers from the brides bride's rown Tuesdays Tuesday's ceremony Henna V night nis-ht fInds the women guests sitting sitting sit sit- ting legged cross in the municipal nuptial hall around a huge bowl of henna lumps humps o of which are on leaves and passed to each o guest after a relative has placed the first morsel on the brides bride's tongue henna Is supposed to be lucky so the girls I stain their fIngers with It t. t drum dream lag ins insor or of happiness and the old Ild women women wo- wo men p put t it it iton on their hair praying for tranquil death The climax o of Henna night Is the offering or of guts gifts In the form of old gold coins which each guest ties tiesto tiesto to the wrIst o of the bride A woo wo wooman man known as the shouter calls out the name o of each donor and the value or of the coin so that afterWards afterwards afterwards' after after- wards wards' every ery guest s may receive from the tho hope chest an article equivalent lent to the value of her own offer offer- Ing carried The bridis bridi's trousseau Is hi to the house o of the groom on Wednesday by a long procession of women triumphantly waving waln each article as they go singing through h time the village e. e On Thursday the bride herself is drawn in a closed carriage to her herne new ne home while the village cavaliers cava cava- hers liers race on horseback across the village green s the winner galloping s off to the house of tIme the groom to shout Your bride Is coming and to dash away with the tho gift Ift which the room groom holds out to him bins When the bridal procession don arrives ar- ar rives the room S-room lifts tIme the veil o of his wife looks for the first time upon her face and carrIes her into the house Once the exciting business o of beIn belag be- be In lag a bride Is over oyer the tho Anatolian woman ornan spends the nest f her life at home or 01 workIng sturdily In her hus husbands husband's aud's fields while he goes s-oes sol aol diening or passes his days smoking I the bubble bubble-bubble and playing trie- trie trac in the coffee houses house k