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Show SfYLE FOR ARAB WEDDING Bridegroom Must Ride Nervous Horse Without Reins or Stirrups, In Middle of Procession. Coming through the streets of Algiers Al-giers of an evening you mny meet n noisy procession that causes you to wonder whether It Is a food riot or a revolutionists' parade. This Is an Arab wedding procession, one of tho fuost ingenious devices ever developed for tho embarrassment and mental tor-turo-"of tho bridegroom, sojs a globe trotter. It Is headed by tho father of the bridegroom, an elderly gentleman, who paces soberly ahead, out of tho con-fusion, con-fusion, ut tended by a few philosophical philosophi-cal friends, nil clad In white. Behind Be-hind him come a mob of young men carrying torches mid lanterns tied to tho ends of polew, beating drums and blowing tin horns, yelling nt the top of healthy voices. The center of tho procession It made up of particular friends of the bridegroom, who burn red and green Hares In addition to waving torches of the milder sort. Behind Be-hind them Is n band of hired musicians, musi-cians, trailed by nil the small boys, dogs and Idlers of Algiers. All this parade naturally attracts n certain amount of attention. In tho middle of It, mounted on u nervous horse, very much embarrassed and self-conscious, rides tho bridegroom. Ho seems to rido very unsteadily and nwkwnrdly, but closer observation shows he Is doing well to ride nt nil, for friends hove token the stirrups from his feet and the reins from his hands so that he has to bold on by force ot grnvlty and his sense of equilibrium. equi-librium. The red Ore nnd the drums generally stimulate his mount to su-perequlne su-perequlne nctlvlty, and It is a marvel that none of the enthusiastic friends get stepped on. The bridegroom. It Is snfe to surmise, Is not sorry when his triumphal procession Is over. As for the bride, she escapes nil this. A few of her girl friends accompany ac-company her on n quiet procession of her own In thu afternoon when she leaves her father's house for her now home, .' |