Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — Marriage in Ireland. [ARTICLE]

Marriage in Ireland.

Marriage in Ireland among the farming classes is conduoted on very much the same scale as that of crowed hoods; a curious fact scarcely "uodsmstanded of the people" in EngUmd. These marriages are arranged mA brought to a satisfactory cowdnsitm without reference to the two most mccced, the bride and bridegroom apparently being the last to be eeisi suited ns to tho advisability of a matter tiiat has to do with their whole lifers happiness. The fathers and nmlhiae on both sides settle all preliminaries. There is no love making betweee Sim voting folks; they do not evon aee each other as a rule until everytMwg is arranged, he being in this part el the barony, she lo that, and time far ‘'lovers’ dalliance’’ in seed time and harvest being ali— N. Y. Bun.