Show lecul ar marriage ceremony among the of india the marriage ceremony is quite elaborate after many preliminaries the priest begins this singular performance taking a small portion of the hair of the bride and groom in turn from the center of the forehead he draws it U down to the bridge of the nose then pouring oil on the tm top of the head he watches it carefully as it trickles down the portion of hair it if the oil runs straight on to the tip of the nose their future will oe he fortunate but it if it spreads over ehe the forehead or trickles off on either side of the nose bad luck Is sure to follow their for tunes told generally to their own sat clon the essential and irre voca ble part of the ceremony takes place standing up side by side but with faces strictly averted the bride and bridegroom mark each other s foreheads with findur vermilion great care Is always taken that neith er shall catch a glimpse of the other during this important process which finally makes the couple man and wife |