Show courish p in slam the declaration of marriage in siam Is very simple you ask a lady to marry you by merely offering her a flower or taking a light from a cigar ette if it happens to be in her mouth and your family and the bride s fam ily have to produce at least ap ece tor a dowry the principal im pediment in the way of marriage is that each year Is named after an ani mal and only certain animals are al lowed to intermarry tor instance a person born in the year of the cat cannot marry with a person born in the year of the dog or a person born in the year of the cow with a person born in the ear of the tiger and there are similar embargoes about months and days akin perhaps to the old superstition that a marriage marri ige would be it the birth months of the couple are far apart april should not wed with november nor january with june |