Marriages Are Made :Eunice deSouza

 My cousin Elena

 is to be married

 The formalities

 have been completed:

 her family history examined

 for T.B. and madness

 her father declared solvent

 her eyes examined for squints

 her teeth for cavities

 her stools for the possible

 non-Brahmin worm.

 She's not quite tall enough

 and not quite full enough

 (children will take care of that)

 Her complexion it was decided

 would compensate, being just about

 the right shade

 of rightness

 to do justice to

 Francisco X. Noronha Prabhu

 good son of Mother Church.

-- Eunice deSouza