The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-16
PRETTY TURKISH WEDDING.

PRETTY TURKISH WEDDING.
All the Same Amusement Made for the
Bride Was Startling.
A San Francisco girl, writing from
cairo, gives this interesting account of
Turkish wedding she attended in a
Turkish home, which gave her rare
chance to study the women and GUS
toms of the orientals, according to the
Argonaut: THE groom was a Turk
and governor of one of the homes
OF Egypt the bride distant relative
OF the khedive. We left our hotel at
$3.50 p. M, each armed with bouquet
the proper thing we are told-which
We presented to the bride. The brides
home was on a small street, entirely
canopied over for the occasion with
oriental embroideries and festocned
with green and red glass lanterns. The
street thus enclosed formed long
room. Clean sand covered the ground,
and the musicians-a European and an
Egyptian band-were placed in this
improvised hall (not a bad idea to
adopt for our teas). The street run
ming at right angles to this street was
also brilliantly Illuminated and fes-
TONED with flags. Musicians with
tam-tams, placed there, welcomed the
guests as they drove up. The groom
received the gentlemen on the ground
floor of the house-the ladies were
ushered upstairs. On the stairs,
eunuchs gave notice of our arrival by
clapping of hands. Another lot of
musicians at the head of the stairs
commenced such a clatter on their
tamtams and gave such vigorous
cries Of welcome that we were nearly
deafened. The brides mother met us
and was most gracious, giving us the
best seats in the room. The room soon
became crowded with women and
young girls some of them exceedingly
pretty, but most of them too fat
they were, of course, unveiled. being
indoors. They We're loaded with jew
els, coronets or diamonds on their
hair, ropes OF pearls and other jewels
about their necks-e enormous diamond
brooches-oh, they were splendid.
When all We're assembled. about 100
or more, a sheet was spread on the
carpet in our midst and the presents
displayed-the servants making a hid
eous noise all the time. The grooms
niece, who spoke French, and eX-
planned everything to me, said they
shouted so as to make it gay for the
bride. 1t was enough to scare the
devil away had he been on hand. The
bride was very pretty, wore dress OF
pink gauzy stuff with threads Of gold,
and was ushered in by dancing girls
with tambourines and castanets.. Four
young girls accompanied her as brides
maids. She was seated on an impro-
vised throne, and then singing girls
sang quite sweetly. and dancing girls
gave us very Oriental dance. The
latter wore jewels that would ransom
kingdom. Chicago Journal
COINS WITH HOLES IN THEM.
Will Keep Them from Being Passed az
a Nickel.
The United States is about to begin
the coinage of a Scent piece for use in
the west and southwest 1t will be OF
nickel, about the size of scent piece.
but in the center of it will be hole
about quarter of an inch in diameter
This will enable one to distinguish it
by the feel even in the dark AS is
we'll known, only the gold coins are
made on basis of value equal to their
denominations, says the Kansas City
Journal. The cent, for instance, is not
worth, as metal, fraction of that
amount. The nickel is not, either. All
are stamped from blanks which the
government buys by contract. Silver
coins were originally of the same value
as the metals, but silver has dropped
so that cart Wheel dollar is only
worth about so cents. Gold is worth
cent for cent. With the beginning of
the new year new series of coinage
began. All the old dies with 1900 on
them were destroyed; that is, the faces
were. On New Years day more than
1900 of the dies We're made useless;
the faces were ground off of them with
an emery wheel. Ever since then
brand new dies have been used These
old dies were from all the various
minis and the work Of destroying their
faces and reworking new ones was
done at the Philadelphia mint.