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he may hire band The girl, if she falls in
! love, may drop him rose or SO, or she may
! smile upon him, or finally, when he has
worn his heels into his ankles, he may be
! invited to call
This indicates that the family like him.
They like him so well that they stay in the
room during all his calls, and if he invites
the girl to go any place with him he has to
! take her sisters, her cousins and her aunts
| with him. If ne still perseveres he is given
a chance to see the girl alone for an hour or
so, and he knows that this means that it T.
time for him to propose. If he does pro-
pose the girl tells him that he must ask
mamma or papa, and upon doing this he
finds that their conditions are decidedly
practical ones.
IT'S AN EXPENSIVE BUSINESS.
The question of dollars and cents enters
into it and the young fellow has to pay all
the bills He buys her wedding outfit and
wardrobe, gives her dresses and Jewels
She does the selecting and sends the bill.to
him. If the young man is very much in
love he may give his bride carte blanche
but if he is at all a practical man he will
fix limit beyond which the bills must not
60 The groom is expected to furnish the
home, if the young couple go into an
establishment of their own and if not he is
expected to go into his wife's family and
live with them.
After man has gone through the bear
business, has wasted his substance in taking
his future wife's relatives to parties, and
has gone through the inane custom of visit
ing her in the presence of her family he
finds that he still has something to do be-
fore he can get married. Divorce is less
common in Mexico than with us and there
is little chance for a fraudulent wedding
Two months before the wedding an an
nouncement of it must be registered at the
cathedral and the priest must register it in
the civil court. Outside the court door the
names of the couple must be put upon a
bulletin and kept there for 20 days
preceding the wedding and there has to be
q wedding before the priest and then one
before the judge.
AMERICANS MARRY THREE TIMES
AT this last ceremony there must be six
witnesses, and one of these must be the
priest who performed the church ceremony.
found number of Americans who had
married Mexican girls, and an American |
has to go through a third wedding in addi- |
ton to the above two This is in connec-
tlon with the American Consul and at the |
close OF it he is tied to his wife as fast as |
two countries and church can make him.
At some of the Mexican marriages a silver !
cord with two loops is fastened around the |
neck of the bride and groom and the groom |
gives the bride money as a sign that she is |
to have her hand in the family pocket |
book.
As soon as the wedding is over the |
couple go to the best photograph gallery |
in the city and have their pictures taken in |
their wedding finery. have taken good |
many pictures in Mexico, and have to |
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the old place the year after I left? What
part do you play? There, dear; I'm enough
to confuse anybody. No, thanks; that car
pet is pretty dirty. Besides its so cold here
you ought to keep moving. I'm in the
company, you know. Oh, yes" laughing
at Daisy's perplexed glance around, "there
are more of US. The rest get in on the ten
minutes grace. As for me, still hold to
some Of my amateur good habits, and I
come on the minute. Dear girl, tell me
about yourself, do. Oil here they come-or
at least one of them. Come here, Ally"
Ally was engaged in climbing up over the
footlight gutter, and Ally, when he got his
feet together and ''came here" was tall,
timber young fellow, smooth-shaVen and
handsome-eyed.
'Don't you know better than to come
through the front of the house2" criticised
Freda, "and a stranger here to notice"
Turning to Daisy, she added, with spretty
touch Of formality: 'fMiss Granite, may r
present Mr.. Alfred Commonwealth Par
1ance?"
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dred miles away from railroad. 1t is q
city of wealth and culture It has the finest
looking men and the prettiest girls OF our
sister Republic, and there isl better place
than here for the study of the senorita in
all her caprices and all her beauty.
The women of Eastern Mexico have round,
plump faces Their noses are inclined to
thickness, and their compilations are often
sallow. The girls here have features of the
Greek cast, and even in the markets and
among the peddlers about the plaza you
find faces that might have served as models
for Praxitiles. Their hair is usually of
raven blackness, and it grows so luxuri-
antly that the average girl has locks which
reach below her waist
HOW THEY CARE FOR THEIR HAIR
The Mexican woman is very particular
about her hair. She washes it several times
& week and goes from the public bath with
il streaming down her shoulders and over
her back. You will see women with their
hair hanging in this way in any Mexican
city, and the custom is as common among
the rich as the poor. The eyes of the
Guadalajara girls are large, dark, liquid
and full of soul They are frank and hon.
est, but by no means bold, and the maidens
have all the nodesty and coyness for which
the Mexican girls are noted
Mexican girls have none of the freedom
Of our American maidens Until within q
year or so the daughter of Mexican gen.
tleman never thought of going out on the
street alone, and you see few girls riding or
walking without their mothers, their aunts
or some ugly old woman in black shawl
who acts as chaperone or duenna The for
eign residents of Mexico City have taught
more freedom, but the girls still stick to
their duennas and none of them are allowed
to receive gentlemen callers. Thew are
backward in the presence of men, and they
have neither unknown correspondents nor
boarding school firtations. The girls are
brought up at home and favorite pet name
Tor them is chickens.
AMUSING SYSTEM OF NIcKNAMEs
Young girls are called pollitas or little
chickens and old girls are Familiarity called
pollas or grown chickens. 1t is needless to
say that the Mexican dude as a rule pre-
fcrs the pollitas. The men have their nick
names as well as the girls, and they are
known as gallos or gallinos, and this,
strange to say, is Mexican expression
meaning young or old roosters. This, how
ever, is not so much different from our own
custom, for do we not contemptuously apply
the name cold rooster" to the men we
think but little OF, and is not on: of our
most endearing terms for girls thai of the
duck2
The senorita natures much earlier than
her American sister. She is as old at 13 as
our girls are at Is, and the law provides
that she may be married as IA At 25 she
begins to verge on old-maidenhood and at
80 she is passee. Mexican women age very
rapidly, wives are old and fat at 35, and
see but few women with gray hair. Mexi-
can marriages are often arranged by the
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30 laden. The stage barred of setting
seemed much larger than the auditorium,
and the slant of the boards was almost
dizzily apparent.
Over by one of the boxes was big roll of
carpet lighted by brilliant patch of SUM-
light, the base of slanting golden column
which was flung, j Jacob sladder-like, through
the dusty air from a far up window in the
flies. Marguerite instinctively made for
this patch, though it proved small comfort
against the penetrating curse of the places
chill. 1t was not her first peep behind the
scenes, but the dismal horror of the great
bare hole weighed upon her. There is
nothing picturesque about either the deser-
ton or the confusion of stage. The one
is forbidding and the other is an ugly chaos.
She looked at her watch, big silver one,
by the way, that had been fathers. Ten
% clock Rehearsal was called at 10, yet not
a soul beside herself had arrived. A panic
seized her. Possiblyft wasn't called at the
Benton Square at all
At this point the sound of slamming
door reassured her, and a merry: "Greetipg,
old crosspatchl In Just the same old ugly
fit you were last time? Oh, my business is
all right, and you know me, too; and I'm
here for rehearsal. Bye bye"
A moment later after a erescendo click of
heels, trim figure poised itself in Mar
guerite's view, came briskly on the stage,
took quick bird-like look from side to
side, shot a special glance at Marguerite,
and then began a brisk walk to and fro. If
this had been done deliberately to display
stylish figure, graceful carriage, and
well poised gait, it could not have done so
more fully; but evidently the intention was
to ward off the chill After a turn or two
she came toward Marguerite, saying in q
crisp way:
''You seem to have the only bit of SUM-
shine and"
Then she dropped her umbrella and the
manuscript part she carried. and reaching
out both hands, cried: "Good gracious, it's
Daisyp'
"Fredai''
''However did you come here? You dear
thing-therei Don't look scared because I
hugged you. I'm glad to see you. Where
did you come from? Are you going to be
in the company? I pity you. thought
you weren't going on the stage. You used
to say so at the school. Did you stick to
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A HOSPITAL FOR DOLLS.
ST. Louis Has Place Where Their Broke
Heads and Limbs Arc Fixed Up.

st. Louis Has Place Where Their Broken
Heads and Limbs Are Fixed Up.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.]
There is new hospital in st. Louis-this
time for tiny people, people, who, good as
they are, will meet with accidents in spite
of care. One young lady has discovered the
secret of mending dolls perfectly and has
opened hospital for broken dolls in con-
junction with a prominent French hair
dresser and face artist, who devotes his
time to repairing the creases of time and
in finding remedies for the blemishes on
beauty, whilst the doll surgeon devotes
herself to putting dextrously together
broken heads, arms, hands and limbs Of the
bisque and waxen beauties, who have met
with accidents and are suffering the results.
Already the hospital is full of the wound
ed beauties and they come out as bright as
new dollars from the newly discovered
treatment. Now that dolls have real hair
instead of faxen wool, the hair-dressers
make it regular thing to keep dolls hair
in order each week as assiduously as they
do hair on real heads.
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THE HOLY COAT OF TREvEs.
It Had to Be Given q Coat Of Rubber an
Silk to Preserve It.

It Had to Be Given q Coat Of Rubber and
Silk to Preserve 1t.
The date set for the exhibition Of the Sa.
cred Coat of Treves is August 20. It is an
event of great-interest to Roman Catholics,
owing to its infreqnent occurrence In
ancient times the coat was exposed to the
public gaze, but as it showed unmistakable
signs of decay, owing to its excessive age, it
was covered with coating of rubber and
silk and put carefully away lest 1t should be
entirely lost to the church The coat is q
bell-shaped garment of fine texture, woven
entirely in one piece 1t is said that anthem
tic records prove the garment to be the
seamless coat worn by our Savior. 1t was
brought to Treves by Helen, the mother of
Constantine the Great, while her son was re-
siding there as Governor of the western
portion of the Roman Empire. The faith
full claim that many startling miracles have
been wrought during former expositions of
the garment.
Treves was founded by the Emperor
Augustus, and is the oldest city in Germany.
1t is picturesque and historic old town.
The railroads have made preparations for
immense crowds. Protestants take almost as
much interest as Catholics.
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WATCHING HIS LOVES WINDOW.

WATCHING HIS LOVES WINDOW
His love has to be q case of love at first
sight, and when he sees the girl whom he
wishes to marry he lets her know bis love
by putting on his best go-to-meeting Sun
day leather breeches, with line of silver
buttons down their legs, his $50 felt hat,
with a rim as big as butter bowl, and his
swell coat and takes his stand in front of the
maiden's window. Here for hours he looks
and sighs, varying his position by now and
then strutting up and down the sidewalk,
never letting his eyes turn away from the
window He does this for day after day and
night after night until the family take
notice Of his devotion and inquire INTO his
bank account and his character.
If they approve of the match the maiden
appears at the window, and as love grows
hot, she comes out and fans herself on the
second story balcony. This, however, is
never before the young man has been tan
talized by week or so of walking up and
down before her window and he has to con-
tinue this walking often for months before
he gets inside the house. This walking and
posing and sighiug is known here by the
phrase, playing the bear" and this bear
act has to be done by every beau
HARD LINES FOR THE LOVER.
The worst of the matter is the lost time
that a fellow has to spend before he can
know definitely whether he is going to
make any impression whatever. Once be-
gun it has to be kept up day after day,
whether it rains or shines, and beau who
would be scared out by thunder storm
would be sure TO lose his sweetheart. As
the acquaintance goes on the beau NAV
bring his guitar, or if he is not a musician
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charcoal at the top and fan away at tho
| front and Thus keep the Goals burning.
There is not a bit of iron about the 81 tove
and the cooking utensils are of clay. In
this city of 10O, 900 people 1 don't suppose
there is a single iron cooking stove and
doubt whether there is an iron pot, pan or
skillet Water is boiled, soups are made,
meats are fried, and in fact first-class
| dinner is gotten up on charcoal by means of
pans of red clay of the color of bricks, and
these pots and pans range in size from a
butter plate to dishpan and from an egg
cup to an apple-butter kettle.
COOKING RANGES ARE UNKNOWN
Many of the stoves have half dozen
openings, and in these q half dozen charcoal
fires will be burning. It is possible to cook
for each dish. The Iturbide Hotel, which
is the biggest hotel in Mexico, does all its
| cooking this way, and such thing as our
| big cooking ranges would be a curiosity
The Mexican cook usually has great
| number of friends She keeps her family
with her in the kitchen, and a man can rely
upon keeping a sort of an Aztec boarding.
house when he enters into his contract with
his cook. The other rooms of the house are
quite as queer as the kitchen. The houses
| are, you know, all built around court,
which serves as stable for the horse and
the place for keeping the carriage, or which
may be beautiful garden. There are often
galleries running around this court, upon
which the second-story rooms open, and in
some houses you will find a fountain play
ing in it.
INSIDE THE BIG ROOMS.
The rooms arc all frescoed instead of
papered, and their floors are all of tiles or
L = - ,f
brick the brick is painted, and you will find
but little carpet upon them only. q strip in
front of the bed perhaps, or running along
in front of q sofa. You would be interested
in the dining room, which has a floor of the
same kind, and in the corner of which is a
washstand which you may use in the place
of your finger bowls at the close of your
meals AT your breakfast you will do well
if you have a table cloth, and you will find
that it consists of little more than chocolate
and bread
Your dinner will be soup and half dozen
boiled dishes, beans and desert, and you will
be expected to eat the beans whether you
take anything else or not. After dinner you
will smoke cigarette with the family, and
after supper, if you follow the example of
the family, you will go to bed You will
find your bed as hard as board, and you
will look in vain for spring mattresses. You
will go to bed with candle, and the chances
ere that you will be troubled with heas.
With all this you will nevertheless sleep
like top, and you will find SO many pleas
ant things mixed up with these little incon-
veniences that you will say that Mexican
life is sitter all as pleasant as any IN the
world.
LOVE AMoNa TKHAZrEcs.
The common people, the poems or the
peasants of Mexica, have customs of their
own, and as far as 1 can see they have as
'strong love for each other as any people in
the world. meet many a young man and
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Not Dead Yet.

In an article on mausoleums published
last Sunday the statement was inadvertent-
ly made that the handsome granite mauso-,
leum erected by Mr.. j. P. Ober in the Alle-
gheny Cemetery, at cost Of $1,000, was
occupied by the remains OF that worthy
many people who know him that he is still
very much alive.
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COURTING IN MEXICO.
The ChivalrOus Lover Has to
Put Up With a Good Deal
Before He Wins.
WATCHING FOR THE GIRL.
Wears Ills Heels Into His Ankles
Pacing Beneath Her Window.
HE PAYS THE WEDDING EXPENSES.
The Cooking Is All Done Over Charcoal and
Ranges Are Unknown.
MORALITY OF THE SISTER REPUBLIC
WATCHING FOR THE GIRL.
HE PAYS THE WEDDING EXPENSES.
The Cooking Is All Done Over Charcoal and
Ranges Are Unknown.
MORALITY OF THE SISTER REPUBLIC


UADALAJARA, MEXICO,
Aug. 1S.-Guadalajara is
the Athens-of Mexico. 1t
is the art center of the
Republic, and though it is
little known in the United
States the city contains
100, 900 inhabitants, and it
has one of the finest thea
ters on the American con-
tinent. 1t is one of the
Oldest cities of Mexico,
and up until a year or two
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voice, ''Don't Bob. don't. II have one"
The star, who till now had apparently
forgotten all about the little woman,
hustled to her side, made great show OF
pulling up her fur collar, and in gentle
undertone inquired as to her comfort. The
company, meanwhile, looked on with ex-
pressions of stolid Indifference or contempt.
uous satisfaction.
"Here's-Freda, Bob" said Miss Elaine
in childish way to call attention to Freda,
who stood back scowling fercely.
"Ah, my dear, how are you-how are
you? Ready for worki' Kildare, the star,
spoke effusively; adding, because Freds
only scowled harder, CHOW do you think
Bird is looking? Better, eh? Her summer
has done her good.
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FEET without corns are pearls of high
price. Daisy Corn Cure is positive and per-
manent in its effect. Is cents; all druggists
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LOVE AMONG TRH,AZrEoa.

The common people, the poems or the
peasants of Mexica, have customs of their
own, and as far as can see they have as
sstrong love for each other as any people in
the world. I meet many young man and
woman everywhere 60 walking along hand
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-07-06
THE TURNPIKE ROAD.

SO strange IL seems. so strange and swest.
That here life's busy tide once lowed;
That brayely trod our grandsire's feet.
With light heart, or with heavy load,
Through this forsaken turnpike road.
As walking in some holy nave
We tread the grass grown ruts today,
An II they marked some ancient grave.
We search upon the milestones gray
Their numbers almost worn away
Beyond the weod and winding stream
Beat the worlds pulses, strong and clear.
With roar and rush of steel and steam;
But. changclcss through the changing year.
A sacred silence reigneth here.
Yet yioiets and the windnower swcet
In fairy hosts here greet the spring,
And following Summers hasting feet,
Blue Gentian- shy and wirspme thing
Comes forth to hear the last bird sing.
And Fancy wraves . snyatic spell
Around this nook In Natures bowers;
Pcrchanco the smiles and tears that fen,
The conquests and defeats - well
That made life In those bygone hours.
Have here found root and bloom In flowers.
And could II be. on every tomb
CAS- to our tcilwon goal we speeb,
That some sweet fiowcr should live and bloom,
Harvest Of bravo or holy deed
.Ah. who could ask . richer .mced7
God resG their souls In byways fair,
Who heavenly seed on earth have sowed.
While we who still lifc's burdens bear
Patiently lit our loads of care.
Renewing for orr last abode
Such bloom as fills the turnpike road.
Annie Louise Brakenridge in Springfield
Homestead.
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EngII.h and American Homes.

Much is said Of the luxury OF the Old
World, but people who have had oppor-
tunities for comparison testify that the
average Of comfort in living is much
higher in the United States than in Eng
land and Europe Even the homes Of
the wealthiest are entirely lacking in
comforts and conYeniences that are re-
garded as indispensable among the mid
die class and even the poorer homes of
the United States. Many English houses
occupied by families of means are not
supplied with steam or water, and the
general method of heating Is by open
freplaces fed with smoky soft coal.
Hot air furnaces are almost unknown.
SGT bowls, with hot and cold water
faucets, are regarded as non-permissible
extravaganza even by the wealthiest
and only the very wealthiest sometimes
indulge in the luxury of bathroom. "A
hotel having one advertises it as spe
cial and unusual attraction. Candles
are still much relied on for illumination
A hundred other conveniences regarded
as necessaries in American homes an
unknown in English households. Good
Housekeeping.
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ruteres,esl q &c skeleton.

Little Albert had been allowed to
amuse himself by turning over the
leaves OF the big illustrated dictionary.
The picture Of the skeleton impressed
him particularly, and at the breakfast
table the next morning he surprised hil
father by asking suddenly, Papa, can't
thsk bony fellow in the dictionary wig
Gle his fngersY' Youths Companion.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-07-06

In most species of deer hollow which
is known to scientists as the lachrymal
sinus, or tear pit, isfound. It is cav
ity beneath each eye, capable of being
opened at pleasure, inwhich a waxy SUBJ
stance of peculiar disagreeable odor is
secreted. This pit is sometimes very
small, but often of considerable size.
Poets speak Of the deer weeping, but it
has not been shown this is not by poetic
license solely. In the case of the wound
ed stag, which the contemplative Jacques
watched and rnoralized upon, it is said:
The big round tears
Coursed one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase.
But this is ShakeSpeare's poetical in
depreciation Of the appearance presented
by the motion of the glistening edges OF
the folds of skin which inclose the 90
called ''tear pits" These cavities are
very marked in species of deer found in
Asia and the islands Of the Indian ocean,
and in the common deer of America and
Europe. In some varieties in South
America and northern Asia they are les,
developed. st. Louis Republic.
Fly Tastes.
First Fly-They are painting the house
outside. Let's 60 out and get stuck in the
paint.
Second Fly-Fd rather stay here and
get stuck in the butter. Good News.