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Show MARRIAGE BY DEGREES. The Peculiar Customs Observed at a Polish Wedding at Pittsburg. A Polish wedding and honeymoon has just been celebrated on Josephine street. .The ceremony, owing to its protracted nature na-ture "and the wedding costume peculiar to the Polish people, attracted considerable attention in that section of the city. The bride is a pleasant little woman and speaks English fluently, but the groom has not been in the country long enough to have full command of the language. They were married at the Polish church by their priest, Father Myskavi, in the presence ot a number of friends. After the formal ceremony the party repaired to the bride's home, where a reception was given which lasted for three days. The wedding took place ii, the morning and a fine breakfast was served to the company at 8 o'clock, after which the dancing and merry-making began, and was not allowed to stop or even flag until midnight. The company then dispersed to meet again at noon on the next day, and the same programme was executed from day to day until the marriage feast was ended. The bride and groom separated each night of the festivities, bidding every one good night, and only after . the marriage feast is ended is the happy couple considered consid-ered married. One Of the unique features of the nuptial nup-tial feast is the manner in which the bride receives the presents. Every gentleman fresent is expected to dance with her at east once, and as . much oftener as he chooses, and each time he asks her . to assist him in the dance he must give her either a handsome present, or a sum of money. . So if the tender bride is good looking, amiable and a good dancer she cannot fail to realize "a rich benefit from the feast. The bride received over $150 in money, and her presents 'were both substantial and pretty. . r- - The dancing is of a wild, furious nature, in which any one but a thorough expert . would be foolhardy to engage, for when the orchestra gets properly wound np and the dancers begin to gyrate in time to the exciting music they remind an on-looker of the frail leaves which are caught up and madly tossed by an amateur cyclone. One of the Polish gentlemen who participated par-ticipated in the recent festivity was asked if three days was not a pretty long time to continue a wedding. - "Oh, nd," he said. .'H you want to j see a genuine wedding", , go . to Poland , I where they last never less than a week or ! ten days. We workingmen don't get ! time to have a . good wedding here." ! Pittsburg Times.- j |