| Show STRANGE WEDDINGS IN INDIA guests bests at native ceremonies in born bom bay literally paint the town red the rites and customs pertaining perti ining to the ceremony of marriages differ in various parts ot of the world E everywhere very the solemnization of the contract is aitt attended with mirth and re g at a native wedding in bombay Bon abay india the wedding guests literally paint the town red by throwing on one another a kind hind ot of red powder until they tire are crit crimson tison from head to foot their disordered white dra draperies the stains and splashes on their faces and hair and their unrestrained jollity give them the appearance of victims of a massacre the peoples home journal states stales in india which may be secured forn for a small rental are provided for these ceremonies but weddings are also celebrated in the hindu temples with priests in attendance in a hindu temple a bride of twelve seat scat herself on a stone and be I 1 drenched with water by tier brides iri aids behind her her mother is subjected to a similar deluge and at a distance behind the brides mother the grandmother undergoes the same treatment while in front of the dripping trio two priests sit beside a i briskly burning wood are mumbling the prescribed words for the ceremony one casts a few grains of rice into the fire and the other with a ladle a few drops of oil during these performances the bridegroom dented in a carriage outside u tile the tem receives the congratulations ions of his friends in the far east the bridegroom would seem to be the member of the party most to be envied |
