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Show Winning a Lolo Bride. It Is customary among tho Lolos of western China for the bride on the wedding wed-ding morning to perch bcisclf on tho highest branch of a large trco, while tho other female members of her family clutter on the lower limbs, armed with sticks. When all aro duly stationed the bridegroom bride-groom clambers up the tree, assailed on all sides by blows, pushes and punches from tho dowagers, and it is not until he has btoken through their fence and captured tho brldo that ho Is allowed to carry her off. At a given signal as soon as tho guests nrc assembled the brldo starts off thro tho compartmedts, followed by her wooer, woo-er, while tbo women of tho encampment throw every possible impediment in his way, tripping up his unwary fcot, holding hold-ing down curtains to prevent bis passago and applying willow and alder switches unmercifully as ho stoops to raise them. As with the maiden on tho trestop, the Kornk brido is Invariably captured, howovcr much tho possibilities of escape may be in her favor. |
