A Scandinavian Marriage

Preparations for a redding fcast befrin weeks beforehnnd, and are so extensiva that M. Lu Chaillu was utterly anaaaed at the quantity of solids and liquida that lic saw Btored againstanapproaching mivrringe feast. 1 to weddings are sent out well in advance of the happy day, 80 that the guests may prepare for two or three day' absence froni home; and the poorest person invited is never without a wedding garment. The happy couple eat, drink and dance with everybody; and it seems never to have occurred to the people to inquire how they do it. There isa limit to the enduraoce of the native head and atomacb, and tbls penerally is found on the tlilrd day; then the ue'sts, on biddini; good-liy to the bride, tender their wedding pn-scuts nrhlcb alwayi Congist ui' mom-v, and are deposited, wltout bcing examined. In a box which the bride wcars at lier sih How many Amerioan rirls will wish- only to themselves- that a similar custom mljtht prevail here eau not easily be estimated, but all of them wlll uoderstand why there are but few bachelois in the land of the inidniht aun. Loaai .1 rt the wedding tc-tivitics, thoae of Christmas l'ar BXCeOu them, tor feattting and fan are mlustriously kc[it up from Cliristmas-eve to Twelftnnifiht, and quaint and charming are somc