The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-10-29


not far from his home. He took pains
to dress we'll Instead of dhoti and
chadar he put on silk chaplain and
Jobba, round turban, and a pair of
patent leather shoes. He walked to
the brides home, a silk umbrella in
hand. There he was received with
proper honors, and soon the trembl-
ing bride was brought before the
groom dressed in sari and bedecked
with jewels. She sat bowed to her
knees in bashfulness. A maid sat be-
hind to cheer her up. One of the bro
theirs of the bride was looking at the
turban, watch chain, and the newly
grown bread of the young man who
was about to be a member of their
family.
Apurba twisted his mustache for. a
while and asked the prospective bride:
What do you study?" No reply was
forthcoming from the bashful girl.
After repeated asking and coaxing, the
girl family spoke in one breath: CHA
rupat, Bengal grammar, geography,
arithmetic, and history of India"
OF sudden there could be heard
the thud of some approaching foot
steps outside, and in moment Mrin-
mayl ran into the room painting and
waving her hair. Ignoring Apurba
altogether, she at once began to pull
the brides brother, Rakhal, to take
him out. AS Rakhal was engrossed in
! looking at the groom, he refused to
leave his seat. The maid began to
rebuke Mrinmayi as sharply as she
could without sacrificing the modesty
Of her voice. Apurba mastered all the
gravity at his command, sat quite
straight, and kept playing with his
gold chain. Mrinmayi, on the other
hand being disappointed in her mis-
sion, slapped Rakhal hard on his back
suddenly pulled off the veil of the
bride, and ran out of the room as fast
as storm.
The silent gathering soon ended and
the girl sighed sigh of relief and
returned to zenana, led by the maid.
Apurba was gravely twisting his thin
mustache and was about to come out
of the room. When he came near the
door he found his new pair of shoes
missing. A search was made for them,
but they were nowhere to found. The
host and the hostess were embar-
raised and began to shower rebukes
on the person who might have stolen
them. At last, when all endeavors
failed to locate the lost property, APP
urba put on a pair of old, loose-htting
J slippers of his host, and thus oddly
attired, he carefully walked along the
muddy village path.
Apurba again heard the outburst of
the same continuous and intense
laughter by lonely pond on the way
| side. 1t seemed as if some sylvan
deity could not resist her laughter at
the inappropriate slippers. Apurba
stood still in embarrassment and i'm
r7ediately saw d guilty girl place his
shoes before him. The girl was about
to run away, but Apurba quickly made
a captive of her.
Mrinmayi wiggled around to get
away, but failed The suns rays from
behind the branches Of the trees bath
ed her face-a face that was lit up
with soulful smile and encroached
up by locks of her wavy hair. Just as
an inquisitive traveller intently looks
at the bottom of a transparent and
restless fountain, even so Apurba
gravely and Accordingly looked upon
! the translucent and magnetic eyes of
| Mrinmayi that so much enhanced the
beauty of her upturned face. And he
slowly loosenei the grip and let the
/ captive go.
Mrinmayi's soulful laughter began
to reverberate in the sky like the
music of dancing natures ornaments.
And Apurba reached home with meas
ured steps and wrapped in intense
thought.
All that day, under many pretenses,
Apurba Krishma did not go in the
zenana to see his mother. He was in
vited out to dinner, so he did not go
in even for dinner.
How did you like the girl, Apu?"
inquired Apurba's mother, when her
son entered the zenana in the evening.
Eyes, mother" said Apurba, rather
embarrassed, 81 have seen the girls
and | like one of them"
! How many girls did you see?"
asked the mother, quite surprised.
After much discussion it became
known that her son liked her neigh
tors daughter, Mrinmayi. She was
shocked at the taste of her son, Il
university man.
! At first Apurba felt rather bashful
10 ulS(uSS Tue matter. but Wnen MS
mother began st5enuouSly 10 object TO
the match Aonrba lost all sense OF
delicacy and in burst OF anger said:
Il shall never marry any girl but
Mrinmayi." The more he thought Of
that almost inauimatc lIcl he went 10
see that morning the more he became
Disguised with the idea of marriage
After two days fast, sleeplessness
and discussions, Apurba was victor
ious. His mother consoled herself by
thinking that Mrinmayi was a little
girl, that her mother was not fit to
give her proper education, and that
after aDrriage, when Mrinmayi would
be under her mother-in-law's control.
the girls character, by proper train
ing would undergo thorough change
And gradually she began to see that
Mrinmayi's face was really pretty. But
at the next moment, when she thought
of Mrinmayi's short hair, she became
exceedingly DISCOURAGED. But she