Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-24
MEN BUY TROUSSEAUS.
m MEXICO BRlDEGROOMs SELECT
THE WEDDING OUTFIT.

''But how is it you come 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 my
self. | shall get married, too but not
yet for some years. Well, my uncle
wants some things, you know, for the
marriage, and he sent me north to buy
him 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, l know" he rapidly inter
rupted 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 therefore right, is it 4ot?
1t is you who do not know. Our Gu; ON
in Mexico is for the young man r buy
the trousseau, therefore / am here in the
summer
DARING YOUNG MAN
$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 possible.
There was young man from Boston,
though, took unto himself a Mexican
wife, and he determined to outdo every-
body. He was real Yankee prince.
he had his future wife's measurements
down to dots, as you say, and purchased
thousands of dollars worth of wedding
tinery. Nothing so splendid in the shape
of wedding was ever seen with us be-
fore. Among other things he bought a
barouche and four splendid horses (that
is what l am going to purchase in New
York for my uncle)
"The newly welded pair drove off in
this barouche amid cheers and music
and great rejoicing. They had jour
ney OF 15O miles to make to the young
fellows plantation. On the way the
new barouche broke down, and the low
ing pair had to ride the carriage horses
something like fifty miles without sad
dies"
care there no good horses in MexicoY'
Eyes; but for style we get our car
riage horses here, and carriages also.
Black teams are the favorite, or dark
bays with black points. The president
drives four spotted horses on state occa-
slons, just as the viceroy used to. There |
used to be law in Mexico providing |
that no one except the viceroy should |
drive spotted horses. l don't know
whether it is still law or not.
During the times when we had a
y5csE9ya1n&dl " they Use eli clgRR tenaeiqgsx
a wealthy young fellow made bet that
he would drive q spotted double team |
through the public streets in defiance of
this law. He was readily taken up to
the tune of $4,000, and he won the bet.
He procured the horses and as he drove
through the streets the soldiers pre-
sented arms and all the honors due to
the viceroy were paid to the young man.
''The viceroy came out on the veranda
of his palace 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
excellency stepped down to expostulate
with him he said that he had brought the
turnout as present. The gift was ac-
cepted perforce and the bet was won.
The turnout cost SO, ,000-a clear gain of
17,000."
AMERICANS IN MEXICO.
"Do many Americans visit Mexico
city now?"
"More and more every year, and they
enter eagerly into our society, and sew
eral of them, wealthy people, have en-
joyed 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 blow to popular superstition
our people are very superstitious-for
the house has long been supposed to be
haunted. 1t is the great stone house
which tourists pass on their way to the
Central or Vera Cruz stations. A most
gloomy house, with windows closed and
walled up, no wonder that people come
to regard it as in some way accursed.
The Emperor Maximilian, a generous
sort of monarch, took a fancy to the
house, owned at that time by Sonora
Dona Victoria Rui de Perez Galvez, and
bought it, and the house was transferred
to Marshal Bazaine when that officer
married lovely Mexican woman, as a
wedding gift from Maximilian and the
Empress Carlotta Marshal Bazaine and
his bride went to live in the house, and
there daily paced in front of it guards Of
Mexican. French and Austrian nation
alities.
SIN those days the huge garden to the
rear of the house, extending almost /
across to the Paseo de la Reforma, was
kept in fine state of cultivation. When
Bazaine left the city with his troops, |
going back to France and to career |
which was to end in exile and in sor-
row, the house was left without inhabit- !
ants, and so it has remained ever since
that day, about quarter of century !
ago. When JuarcA. the iron handed |
president, entered the city to resume
republican rule, he confscated the Ba-
zaine mansion, and later on, it was
bought by the Iturbide family, the largest
real estate owners there-the Astors of
the City of Mexico. New York Ad. |
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