The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-07-23
Z CONTINUED from Tuesday,
Wedding Bells.


In the town of the moon island they
carelessly prepared fer the approaching,
jeyfui day. Blanca had Joined their
church. and the consistory now consfusr ec
her fully divorced from the Prince Cas-
liari. The Protestant ecclesiastical laws
do not recognize the matrimonial imped-
iments of the canon law. Blanca, from
the hour In which she had Joined the
church of the Unitarians, was free
Back in the yard. and separated from
the other houses, stood a small cottage
consisting OF two rooms and kitchen.
Aaron fitted this up exactly after the
model OF the Toroczko rural dwellings,
Neatly carved furniture of hard wood,
running along the wall a shelf, upon
which glazed tankards were symmetrical
iy arranged; an antique dresser, upon
which earthenware and pewter dishes
shone: the bed clothes and bed curtains
nadesby peasant girls The house is not
10 be shown to Blanca until the wedding
day, when the respective groomsmen OF
bride and bridegroom win have exchanged
tho customary rhymes.
Let us hope that no misfortune viii
occur!
During this time Aaron went every
evening upon the Seeker stone TO ascer-
tain in what direction, IL any. camp fires
were visible. But in the morning he talk
ed with the young ladies about wedding
dresses. He took care not to speak about
what he had seen at night In the HORIZON
The week before the wdding Toroczko
ance with a custom which existed sinc@
the time when all Toroczko belonged to
the Roman Catholic Church. 1t was
day of joy and gratitude consecrated to
the guardian angel of miners. and is, even
TO this day, solemnly celebrated In every
houee. Blanca appeared on this festival
day In the dress of the young women of
Toroczko. She wore a gown the long
sleeves of which were ornamented with
spangles, and tucked and puffed at the
wrist; green petticoat, with embroid-
cred red stripes: a bodice covered with
pictures uf many-colored birds, and lace
apron. She was the most beautiful of all
the women. No one who could afford to
give himself treat stayed away from
the wedding.
On tliH SurJay of thu last announcement:
the entire host of good, friends Ia whole
army Is found In the bridegroom's house.
which. In this case. Is also the house
OF the bride The betrothed ones do not
furnish the festive meal for this day; 1t
Is a farewell dinner which the guests give
the young couple, and to which each
brings fried chicken and cake The
bridegroom furnishes only the wine, and
not even this gratuitousiy. Every one
pays for what he drinks, and the money
goes to the school fund.
The real wedding celebration begins on
Monday. Early in the morning cannon
shots awake the city, young horsemen
galiop to and fro, and two inviters to the
wedding. accompanied by trumpeters,
carry through the streets the bridal gifts
which bride and bridegroom send to each
Other. Then the wedding procession, az
companied by tho ringing of bells. repairs
from the house where the wedding is TO
be celebrated, to the church: the old m an
go first; then the young men, and lastly
the women; In the middle of the process
sion are the bridegroom, with two of his
baothers as groomsmen, and the bride
with her two bridesmaids. one of whom
Is Anna and the other Susanna. Rebecca,
as wedding mother" stayed at home.
When Blanca left the church the crowd
Of maidens almost buried her under bout
uuets. 1t was February; the girls had
therefore been. obliged to plumber the
towering plants in their windows.
But pthe ceremony in the church does
not end the AFFAIR. What follows Is
composition which the muse of popular
poesy had herself composed. First, the
lads with the bridal cake run a race to
the wedding house. and whoever arrives
there first receives a necktie embroidered
by the bride. Then follows dialogue in
rhyme, In which, at last, the groomsman
OF the bridegroom remains victor, but
not until the bridegroom has promised to
be father and brother to the bride. and
TO protect her as the apple of his eye.
The maidens then surround the bride, sing
encouraging songs. and thus induce her
to extend her hand to the loving bride
groom The flower maidens then conduct
her to the house of the bridegroom,
namely, into the little dwelling in the
courtyard. which Aaron had secretly ar
ranged for them. Neither Blanca nor
Manasseh had before known anything
about this.
Blanca found herself in the paradise of
her dreams And when the bridesmaids
put the gold cap on her head. and she
walked over the threshold of her little
house, led by the hand of her husband,
whose wife and queen she now was be-
fore God and man-when she stepped
among the multitude of cheering, greet
ing, honoring, lowing guests it seemed to
her as If she had become possessed of
steTnal bliss even here upon earth.
They sat down to the wedding feast.
Five hundred guests were present Food
and drink and good humor are there in
abundance.
They danced the Seeker dance, and
thus the night wore on.
The Seeker dance does not resemble
any of the well-known choregraphic fig
ures. Nor can it be learned easily. It