The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
ODD DOWRIES. FOR BRIDES.
One Received Her weight I'm Soap. Ansther
Her Weight In Chocolate.

HtuW Au-btI6.
A rather valuable wife in the present STAT.
of the soap trade must be the lady whom N,
lie Blenc. a Partisan. has just married. The
fair bride. who was the daughter Of a hair
dresser In a large way OF business, not only
received from her father a handsome dot in
money. but her own weight In the best toilet
soap. As she weighed close on lao pounds
the couple will possess sufficient soap 60 last
them for some years TO come.
When asked by his prospective father-tn-
law. "a fourishing West End tobacconist. 10
name the present he would like to receivs
on his wedding day the young man sug-
gested a few boxes OF cigars ar being O,
more Use than the usual gifts presented 90
such occasions. Very well: you shall have
my daughters weight In CIGARS said the
other. He was as good as his word. On
the day before that fixed for the
he had the bride weighed. and that sams
evening forwarded to his future son-In-laW
some dozens Of boxes OF cigars. weighing in
the aggregate l2s pounds.
Mile. Marie Brie. the niece OF a Msrsei1es
confectioner, received from her uncle on her
marriage. three years ago, an equally eoceu-
trio gift in the form of her own weight 10
chocolate. Perhaps the worthy patissier
had in mind when making the present the
custom which prevails in Peru. There on
the marriage morn the bride Ia accurately
weighed. and after the the bride
groom is presented by his wife's relatives
with her weight in sugar.
A Yorkshire coal merchants present 20 his
daughter on her marriage was to be regu-
lated by her weight. for every pound OF which
she was to be the recipient of a ton Of best
Wallsend. His intenI ion. which was COM
municated to her on the day she became en-
gagged. stirred her, as she was A young woman
OF most frugal mind. to emulate the fat women
OF the fairs, 50 that during the six months
her engagement lasted her value went up
ten tons. Doubtless she would have mad.
further inroads into her fathers store had
not that worthy merchant hurriedly married
her of at "A loss OF only I72 tons.
The father Of a girl living in the town Of
k6niggrdtz offered TO present any one who
should become her husband with her weight
In silver currency. As the lady was vel
favored and OF a build which, although no,
exceptionally stout. promised an amount
ample to make n good start In business. rnor'
than one claimant appeared.
The most eligible was at length selected.
and the wedding duly solemnized. Then
came the most important function-ths
weighing of the bride. who to her husbands
delight was found TO weigh I55 pounds. ~
1880 kronen. an equivalent to E5s2 los.
SO much did he admire stout men that NJ
Bait. a tradesman who prospered exceedingly
at Brighton under the Regency. promised his
only daughter that her dowry should consist
Of the equivalent in gold to the excess OF hes
husbands bodily weight over hers. She s'
once threw over her fiance. q mere stor
OF a man. and after due consideration made
SO wise n choice that. although she herself
weighed upward of ~ stone, she found Der
self on her marriage morn richer by 20 lsGs
h 1000 s~uiness.