n the brides home that was the busi

n the brides home that was the busiest day. For on the day of the wedding there was not much to be done but to hand over the daughter to the other family, which would be the centre of this ^affair of happiness”. By nightfall Madame Wii felt she had had a very strenuous day. Though she had now passed her eighty-fburth year, she was still quite energetic. As she was so anxious to see to the union of her beloved grandchildren, she had kept a suite of rooms with the Li family, where she was to make her headquarters from the day of the wedding.In ordinary cases the people of the brides family do not show themselves in the other house on that important occasion. Except for the short period when the "sedan of happiness” comes for the bride, when her people have to get busy, all the members of her family usually pass a rather lonesome day. Since, however, Madame Wu was the maternal grandparent of the boy and her son was the brother of the grooms mother, it was decided that the elderly lady and her son were to be there on that day to direct the grand affair. As long as they did not appear in the chamber of ceremony when the wedding rite was going on they were doing nothing contrary to tradition.