Show STYLE FOR ARAB WEDDING bridegroom must ride nervous horse horsa without reins or stirrups in middle of procession coming through the streets of algiers of an evening you may meet a noisy procession that causes you to wonder whether it is a food riot or a revolutionists parade this Is an arab wedding procession one ot of tile the most ingenious devices ever developed for the embarrassment and mental torture of the bridegroom says a globe trotter it Is headed by the fattier father of the bridegroom an elderly gentleman who paces soberly ahead out of the confusion attended by a few philosophical friends all clad in white behind him come a mob of young men carrying torches and lanterns tied to the ends of poles beating drums and blowing tin horns yelling at the top 0 of healthy voices the center of the procession ls Is made up of particular friends of the bridegroom who burn red and green flares in addition to waving torches of the milder sort sorl behind hill them is a band of hired hire musicians trailed by all the ac small boys dogs and idlers of algiers all this parade naturally attracts a certain amount of attention in the middle of st it mounted on a nervous horse very much embarrassed and self conscious rides the bridegroom ile he seems to ride very unsteadily and aNk awkwardly but closer cinser observation shows lie Is doing well to ride at all for friends have taken the stirrups stirrup 1 from liis his foot feet and the reins from his hands bands so that lie he has to hold hot on by force of gravity and liis its sense of equilibrium libri lum um the red fire and the drums generally stimulate his mount to su perc per quine equine neti activity vity and it is a marvel that none of the enthusiastic friends get stepped step on oil the bridegroom it is safe to surmise is not sorry when his triumphal procession is over As for the bride she escapes all this A few of her girl friends accompany her on a quiet procession of her own in the afternoon when she leaves her fathers house for her new home |