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Show Tibetan Love-Making. When k Thibetan warrior, surfeited with the glory of martial life, desires a wife, he waits upon the father, of the girl who has attracted his eyes, and makes an offer of marriage. The father, after weighing the matter carefullyfor care-fullyfor a refusal is likely to provoke a long and bloody feud in turn waits upon the priests, and acquaints them with the nature of the offer, at the same time paying them a munificent bribe in order to secure the answer of they deities as to whether the marriage mar-riage should be entered into. The wife-seeker, wife-seeker, should ho - be diplomatic enough, has meantime carried a larger bribe to the lamas, who "bleed" both father and siuitor to the limit of safety, when the decision of the deities lo given. For a month the accepted suit-tj- must keep the family of his favored fav-ored one supplied with meat and" other luxuries, and must be on his guard against rival suitors. At the end of a month the chosen one is1 invited in-vited to a grand feast by the father of the sirl. where" tlie betrothal is sealed by each cutting a small incision in the arm and mingling the blood flowing from the wounds. This function of blood brotherhood having been finished, fin-ished, the girl is brought forward smeared with grease and various colored col-ored pigments, adorned in all her finery, and with a rope tied around her neck a? a subservience. Then ensues a scene of . the shrewdest bargaining, the father dilating on the good points of the girl much in the manner of a connoisseur of blouded stock. The wishes of the woman are never consulted, con-sulted, but the bargaining goes on for days, and even weeks, until a final settlement has been arrived at. |