Show curious marriage custom the kurds burds have a very curious and somewhat dangerous marriage custom which one would think would bould be more honored in the breach than in the ob servance the husband surrounded by a bodyguard of twenty or thirty young men carries his wife home on his back in a scarlet cloth and Is desperately pera tely assaulted the whole way by a number of girls sticks and stones are hurled at the bridegroom who in the coming home with his bride can call hardly be considered a very happy man tor for the irate amazons often inflict on him marks which he be carries i 1 to the grave it may be that among the lady pursuers are some or of the bridegrooms bride grooms former flames who turn the mock attack into downright earnest ta 0 o renge sighted oye ove |