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Show A KABYLE MARRIAGE. flu Ceremony Is Complicated and Wis it Vp With an Eidtliig Incident. The wedding ceremony among tha Kabyles is interesting because of ita jomparatrve resemblance to the costoma of the old Greeks and Romans and even to those which still prevail in sequestered seques-tered parts of France, Hera it is th girl's father who exacts a wedding portion, por-tion, a sum of about 8, for which the bridegroom has generally to rely upon the advances of his friends. Often, too, the young man has not a house for his bride, in which case his friends set to work and build one, no very difnouU matter. On the wedding day the bride is led through the villages in the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, mounted on a mule and escorted by friends and relations, who shout and fire guns again and again. The various householders hasten forth to offer her a tieveful of beans, nuts or dried figs. Ol these she takes a handful, which she kisses and then replaces in the sieva All the offerings aro collected in sacka by the old women of the procession at contributions to the young people's larder. lar-der. At the bridegroom's house the girl't hands are washed with liquid butter, Then they give her some fresh eggs, which she breaks on the mule's head and inside the unhappy animal's ears, thereby, it i3 believed, counteracting any evil designs against her and her husband's happiness. Before -entering the house she drinks milk, fresh anc our, and also water, and scatters ovw ker shoulder a handful of barley, whoa and salt for the good of the family. The husband then approaches her and Arcs a pistol above her head to Bignifj that thenceforward he has the power of life and death over her. Not infrequently infrequent-ly he makes the symbol even more em-phatic"by em-phatic"by firing into her headdress and setting her allame. This done, little rs-mains rs-mains except for the youth, to lift th lady in his arms and carry her bodily Into hi house. All the Year Roua4 |