The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-12-12
MEN BUY TRoussEAus.
In Mexico Bridegrooms Select the
Wedding Outfit.

MEN DUI InUVOO6RUOs
In Mexico Bridegrooms Select the
Wedding Outfit.
Senior Manuel del Rosaros is a
gay cavalier from Mexico city who
has made several visits to New York.
"But how is it you came here in
the summer, senor?" he was asked.
Business, sir, business. My uncle
is about to get married. Great boy,
my uncle. Only about the same
age as myself. l shall get married,
too, but not for some years. Well,
my uncle wants some things, you
know, for the marriage, and he sent
me north to buy him a regular
trousseau. l am buying it, and
having good time"
"But we do not say trousseau
when referring to mems wedding
garments, we only
81 know, know" he rapidly in
terrupted. II speak English very
well now, thank you. 1t is you who
do not know. My uncle sent me,
not to buy things for himself, but
for his bride. Trousseau is there
fore right, is it not? It is you who
do not know. Our custom in Mex
leo is for the young man to buy the
trousseau, therefore l am here in
the summer.
$50 the bridegroom has to buy
all the wedding toggery?"
"He is supposed to do so, but it is
not always permitted. Sometimes
the brides parents only allow him
to purchase the slippers, the fan
and things of that sort, and on those
occasions the young man tries to
the utmost to show his liberality by
the most lavish expenditure posi-
BILE. There was young man from
Boston, though, took unto Linn elf
a Mexican wife, and he was determ-
ined to outdo everybody. He was
a real Yankee prince. He had his
future wife's measurements down
to dots, as you say, and purchased
thousands and thousands Of dollars
worth of wedding fnery. Nothing
so splendid in the shape of a we'd
ding was ever seen with us before.
Among other things he bought
barouche and four splendid horses
(that is what l am going to pur-
chase in New York for my uncle).
"The newly welded pair drove
off in this barouche amid cheers and
music and great rejoicing. They
had a journey of $50 miles to make
to the young fellows plantation.
On the way the new barouche broke
down and the loving pair had to
ride the carriage horses something
like fifty miles without saddles"
"Are there no good horses in
Mexico?"
Eyes; but for style we get our
carriage horses here, and carriages
also. Black teams are the favorite,
or dark bays with black points.
The president drives four spotted
horses on state occasions, as the
viceroy used to. There used to be
law in Mexico providing that no
one except the viceroy should drive
spotted horses. l do not know
whether it is still law or not.
During the times when we had
viceroy-and they all clung tena-
ciously to this exclusive use of
spotted horses-a wealthy young
fellow made a bet that he would
drive spotted double team through
the public streets in defiance of this
law. He was readily taken up to
the tune of $40, 900, and he won the
bet. He procured the horses, and
as he drove through the streets the
soldiers presented arms and all the
honors due to the viceroy were paid
to the young man.
"Tho yiceroy came out on the
veranda; Of his place to learn the
cause of the wild acclaim. When
he learned it he was furious. But
the young fellow drove right into
the palace yard, and when his ex-
cellency stepped down to expostu-
late with him he said he had brought
the turnout as a present. The gift
was accepted perforce and the bet
was won. The turnout cost SO 900
"a clear gain of $4,000"
"Do many Americans visit Mex
leo city now?"
"More and more every year, and
they enter eargerly into our society,
and several of them, wealthy peo-
pie, have enjoyed it SO much
that they have built residences near
the city. An American has leased
one of the most historical houses
we have and at the same time dealt
a blow to popular superstition-our
people are very superstitious-for
the house has long since been sup
posed to be haunted. 1t is the great
stone house which tourists pass on
their way to the Central or Vera
Cruz stations. A gloomy house,
with windows closed and walled up,
no wonder that people come to re-
gard it as in some way accursed.
The Emperor Maximilian, a gener-
GUS sort of monarch, took a fancy
to the house, owned at that time by