in a more cleanly style. The picture of the wedding group shows the difference, and what they prefer. The cloths are mostly calico, the cheaper kind imported from America and India; the better kind, some from America, some from England. The picture shows a great deal more than an improvement in dress. The women, having been treated as slaves, were never, until recently, even on their wedding day, allowed to walk home with their husbands. The bride and her maids usually passed out of one door, and the bridegroom, with his followers, usually passed out of the opposite door of the church, each going to their respective homes. The bride was taken to the husband in the evening, after having been plentifully smeared with butter. Then for the next few weeks she spent her time in weeping, or pretending to weep, and receiving the condolences of her friends that she had become the slave of a man, notwithstanding
