Show IN THE gorgeous ceremony and point lace not requisites the day was warm the sailor sat in an ice cream saloon eating ice cream and lady cake the queerest marriage I 1 ever seen miss he said was in the andaman islands but maybe you aint inter ested in marriages 9 he laughed as men always laugh over this joke and the pretty wait ess permitted herself to smile the islanders in them islands h said is dwarfs four feet on the average very fierce and ugly if a young islander wants a girl for his wife he asks her parents for her they never refuse they take the girl and hide her in the forest there lad must find her before morning if he finds her she s his I 1 he don t she ain t of course I 1 don t need to tell you that it the girl wants the young teller she sees to it that he finds herall right and vice versa here is how the marriage ceremony is performed the lad climbs up a slim young tree and the girl climbs up another close to him her clothes don t bother her in climbing clothes never bother an andaman is lander well up they go and as they near the top their weight bends the slim trees over towards each other prettily the trees bow and bend and courtesy and finally the lad a head touches the girl s and from below a shout goes up for the head has done the business the ceremony is finished the young folks troubles have begun chicago chronicle |