Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1915 — IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE CITIES

Novel and Costly Chinese Wedding in New York

NBW YORK.— Take a sip of rice wine together, rise, bow—and you’re married. This was the way pretty nineteen-year-old Au Toy and twenty-year-oM Toy Yust did It here recently. To begin at the beginning, marriages are

supposed to be arranged in heaven, but this one was arranged in the Celestial kingdom. Lee Yik You, father of the bridegroom, and Au Yceg, father of the bride, lived near each other in Canton and the children played together. Over their choice golden tea and their long pipes Mr. Lee and Mr. Au one afternoon decided the two little ones would be as happy as two dolls on a china vase, going through life together. Both families came to America.

The youth studied at the Stuyvesant high school in this city. A few months ago he decided it was time to marry. The girl's father is in business in Boston. She made the trip here in an automobile, wearing remarkable robes and a thick red veil, which swathed her from head to foot. Arrived in Mott street, the bride and her parents were welcomed by the father of the bridegroom. The girl was token to an upper room and seated facing the wall tn a stiff chair, with her veil still on. Relatives and friends gathered in throngs. At two o'clock in the morning ten men in long embroidered robes led the bridegroom into the midst of the wedding guests. Several elderly chaperons escorted the bride to him. He drew away the red silk mesh and gated upon his bride. It was the first time they had met in twelve years. While all present chanted a little hymeneal song wishing them both long lives and many descendants, the young man and the young woman sipped the wine and bowed. They were thenceforth bound for life. - But this didn't content them. At noon the next day they were married by a Protestant clergyman and five days later there was a wonderful 300course wedding breakfast. The whole wedding cost the father of the bridegroom about |5,000 in American money.