The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-05-24
members. The expenditures for
church expenses was $254,O0O, and
for other objects 5000, 900.
j. G. ARMSTRONG.
CEREMONIES.

From the Globe Democrat.
painted white and red and her hands
and feet are dyed yellow with henna.
Among the Tartars a marriage is
always attended by a sham fight
between the friends of the groom and
bride.
When the hair of a Roman bride
was dressed for the wedding, it was
always parted with the point of a
spear.
The Greek cities all keep matrimo-
NAL rolls in the public offices, open
to the inspection of any interested
person.
In Samoa the bride wears a
wreath of flowers, a dress of cocoa
mating and has her face colored
with turmeric.
In France, Germany and Italy
during the Middle Ages, notice of
the betrothal was posted on the door
of the parish church, that all the
parish might be informed.
In ancient Chaldea, when a mar
riage was celebrated, the priest
lighted a fire which should be kept
burning in the new home until the
death of one of the parties.
The Jews attached great Importance
to the purity of the metal in the
wedding ring, and that article was
handed to two witnesses, who ex-
amined it and declared, at is gold"
For many centuries so great was
the regard felt in Europe for the
wedding ring, that a wife would
sooncr part with h r life than with
the emblem of her marriage.
a Jewish rabbi says the first mar
riage turned out so badly that the
only reason Adam and Eve were not
divorced was that no other man
could be found for her to marry.
The BRIDES cake of to-day is a
relic of a Roman custom. AT a
Roman marriage the bride was X
pected to prepare a part, at least, of
the wedding feast with her own
hands.
The costume of a Greek bride con-
sisted of a long white robe with
purple fringe and ribbons, a wooden
girdle, a wreath of verbena leaves, a
bright yellow veil and shoes to
match.
The Loanda bride in fashionable
society prepares herself for the cere-
mony by painting her face red and
putting on a wedding garment of
grass, reaching from the waist to
the knees.
When Frederick the First and
Sophia Charlotte were married the
King broke his wedding ring during
the festivities, and the accident was
regarded as foretelling the miseries
of the union.
The Albanian girl puts all her for
tune into gold and silver coins and
mounts these oil her high cap, that
not only the groom, but all the as
sembled company, "a discern her
value at a glance.
The white ribbons and favors used
at weddings today are emblematic of
the time when the BRIDES garters
were cut up into bits and distributed
among the young mer and women
present for good luck.
The Fleet marriages in London
were celebrated by persons who were
imprisoned for debt. They performed
the ceremony secretly and at cheaper
rates than their brethren outside and
were much patronized.
The ''dow purse' in England is a
relic of the German morgengabe
custom, and in France the worldly
goods with which the groom endows
the bride + symbolized by the
present of a sou and a denier.
Among the ancient Jews, if the
bride were a maiden, her robes were
white and her hair was allowed to
flow down yer her shoulders; a
widow might dress in any color and
arrange her hair in any style she
plrased.