Show A PEASANT WEDDING mrs airs alee alec Teed lc in her jou iney through finland appears to have haval displayed a happy aptitude for for faiming ming friendly fil endly lelit lons with mith all sorts and conditions 0 of people at one peasant cottage of the poorest sort where sh aha a r topped stopped to buy a bowl bonn I 1 of milk she elle tell into conversation with m ith its mistress a I 1 very cry clean and apparently very aged woman moman clad in a choit serge skirt shirt a loose white chemise and a striped airon ai ron of many alors cheso simple being all of her own ft acay caving over oer her head slie she more a black c cashmere eie kei hei chief chlof her face might have belo belonged nied to a woman oman of a hundred or a witch of ancient times it was so wrinkled and tar tanned ined her bands were mere hard and and vet et after halt half an hour houi a conversation conversi tion we aa discovered she was mas only about fifty five hard work poor food and ufa life la in dark ill ventilated ventilate smoky cottages s age the peasants fast at seventeen many a girl begins to look like an old woman vt oman the old or middle aged woman was mas a and friendly soul and was waa soon beguiled by the visitor a comments on a woven mone laid hanging banging in slight into nairi ting an episode of family it had been ono oil a of the presents glien ghen by her son on his manlike ige to ills his lie ile had bad married man led a girl of another ashing hei let hand lit in accordance with alth I 1 finnish cil custom through a or spokesman a kind antl of preliminary abst man who must do all the talking while th the euit suitor himself sits dumb being accepted he be exchanged rings with hla his betrothed and gave her fattier father tile the usual N hat Is that the visitor asked try hy it Is a sort ct c f a deposit given to the girls girl s father to show ho he really means to marry mairy the girl a cow or something of sort A two bears ears engagement during which the young people NN at a t taming at ning their household equipment was mas followed fOl liy by a giand wedding bedding celebrated celebia ted as usual in it ii n it at tile the bride bridegroom grooms s house it li 19 a very expensive thing to get slid tile the mother an I 1 ray son bon had to give many presents to the fattier father in liv lim mother in aw bridesmaids and glooms groomsmen men to all the brides malda lie he gave gaie stockings thit th it being tit the G fashion fall lion of our country countr y to the he gave gane shirts to hla his mother in law a tire dress to the iho father lu ili law a belt an I 1 to other friends fri enIs head in short she ehe confessed that tile the occasion was mas a very serious drain upon the family resources dilt oil oh it was man a t time she added A i wedding adding is a splendid thing we had a feast all one day and the next axi and then the priest came and they ere married every one we knew crime came from miles around some brought a can of milk and some of them brought bi ought coin brandy and others brought porridge and johansen had b been e en to ton town vir so he brought back with ith him some white bread aye it was m as a grand acost e danced and ate and sand and made merry for two days and then we me all walked with my son and hla his bride to that little on the other side of the wood mood and left them there where they have hane lived ever since |