The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-17
 HE FELL IN LOVE.
And, heing in Mexico. He Followed the
 Custom of the Country.

And, Being in Mexico. He Followed the Custom of the Country. | From the 0uiaha Bee.l
 1 On the plaza every evening tho band plays Its charming music, aud here the
 lovers most likely meet for the first
 time. The men promenade around the square In one way while the women go the opposite. and a policeman Is there to sec that every nun keeps his place. It was here on the plaza that the writer first fell In love-quits confes- sion, admit. Oh! she was 6 handsome creature. but I have since met dozens equally so. The old Idea that u man loves but once does not apply in Mex. leo. Here he cannot only love more than once. but love several at tims. He cun fall in love three times a day and still have a good appetite. How ever. this particular episode is not without interest. At the time 1t took place 1 was completely ignorant of the manners and customs of Mexican eti- quette. saw the object of my admira- tion on the promenade, and she smiled gracibusly. That was a great deal for her to do as she was as proud as Luci- fer. But that smile was enough. I was told that she could speak little English so I resolved to ask her where Brown-Jones lived. and, after waiting for her to drop something, which, by the way, she never did. told a friend of my intentions to speak to her. and so started across the plaza to where she was seated. Before reaching the place, however. was seized by my friend. who looked as white as a ghost, and said: Don't you do 1t ,my boy; they will arrest you, or her relatives will shoot you"
 Such warning is apt to cool the ar- dor of any lover, so my friend proposed to carry on g filtration in the proper way. One must first find out where she lives; to do this you must follow her home from the plaza. It is also ad- yisable to let her see that you are fol- lowing her. At midnight return with your instruments and serenade under her balcony. You must continue this course perhapa for weeks, and then perhaps she will drop you her handker- chief or billet petit It is a very good plan to do as Romeo did in soliciting the assistance of one of the domestics, ahd to also always look out for "break- ers.' Never go serenading unless your weapons are loaded for big game, as possibly they may make 1t dreadfully unpleasant for you. Yet, of course, no trouble is likely to happen, as a sereh- ade is a Very Common thing here. and little is thought of it. To be conven- tional, I followed the senerita down long dark streets to where she lived. After she had entered the house l crossed the street and secreted myself in a dark passageway, under the inn pression that I might see her on her balcony later.
 had been there only a few minutes when low creeping figure, dressed en- tirely in black, came in beside me. This proved to be another lover, and as he had his hood pulled over his face could not identify him. He accosted me in Spanish, and while l was ex- plaining to him that could not speak the language another lover slipped into the doorway. The second gentleman could speak few words of English, so we compared notes and found that we were each following the same girl, The very best of friendship immediately sprung up between us. eaching ex- changing cards and shaking hands. Then we entered into long euloEy up- on the beauty of our lady love and dis cussed plans whereby we might bring her to her window. There were many, but mostly impracticable. l suggested that we should get 2 ladder and climb up to her balcony. but no ladder was to be found. Then one of the Mexicans proposed that we climb up one over the other. and we finally adopted this plan.
 We crossed the street and looked up to the balcony; it was probably twenty feet ahpve the pavement. As wae the tallest they asked me to stand first, but declined, and as the others objected to become the foundation, we resolved to shake dice for it. So we went into neat little cantina around the corner. The first man out was to be on top. and was the lucky man. We returned to the house and the first Mexican braced himself against the wall. SUD- ported the weight of the second Mexi- can, and after had removed my shoes I climbed up on top could just reach the balcony and with considerable ef- fort pulled myself up >to 1t. tapped gently on the window. but no answer came again and again, louder and louder but no dark eyes pierced through the curtain to greet me. With 8 last effort I climbed over the railing and put my eyes close to the glass.
 "Mon Dieu, 1t is storage room!"'
 We had made g. mistake and had gone to all this effort for nothing. I dropped down. Putting on my shoes and feeling my ardor cooling, T sug- gested we should take drink and go home. But the others were net pre- pared to give up SO easily. SO they went in search of some musicians tor a serenade, while returned to my hoteL
 The following evening. found tue ms der the window again. this time sc- .companied. by two musicians. whose beautiful music might soften her proud heart and impulse her to listen, to my pleadings, sang "AIidvay Platsance" to her. had scarcely finished when ! heard a soft voice at lower window not two feet from whereII stood, Say ing, ''senor is an Englishman." and senor answered. "Not an Englishnaan.