The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-31
ODD powRlEs FOR BRIDES.
One Received Her Weight In Soap,
Another Her Weight in Chocolate.

From Tit-Bts.
A rather valuable wife in the present
state of the soap trade must be the
lady whom M. lie Blanc. a Partisan, has
just married. The fair bride. who was the
daughter of hairdresser in a large way
of business, not only received from her
father handsome dot in money, but her
own weight in the best toilet soap. As
she weighed close on 40 pounds the couple
will possess sufficient soap to last them
for some years to come.
When asked by his prospective father
in-law, a Furnishing West End tobacco
mist, to name the present he would like
to receive on his wedding day the young
man suggested a few boxes of cigars,
as being of more use than the usual
gifts presented on such occasions. Very
we'll: 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 ceremony he had the bride
weighed, and that same evening for
warded to his future son-in-law some
dozens of boxes of cigars, weighing in
the aggregate 128 pounds.
Mile. Marie Brie, the niece of a Mar
settles confectioner. received from her I'M
Gle on her marriage, three years ago, an
equally eccentric gift in the form OF her
own weight in chocolate. Perhaps the
worthy patissier had in mind when max
ing the present the custom which pre-
walls in Peru. Tnere on the marriage
morn the bride is accurately weighed,
and after the ceremony the bridegroom Is
presented by his wife's relatives with
her weight in sugar.
A Yorkshire coal merchants present
to his daughter on her marriage was to
be regulated by her weight. for every
mound of which she was to be the re-
cipient of a ton of best Wallsend. His
intention, which was communicated to
her. as she was a young woman of most
frugal mind, to emulate the Vat women
OF the fairs, so that during the SIX
months her engagement lasted her value
went up ten tons. Doubtless she would
have made further 1nroads INTO ner Ia
theirs store had not that worthy mer-
chant hurriedly married her off at loss
of only liz tons.
The father of a girl living In the town
of Koniggratz offered to present any one
who should become her husband with
her weight in silver currency AS the
lady was well favored and OF build
which. although not exceptlonaiy stout
promised an amount ample to make a
good start In business, more than one
claimant appeared.
The most eligible was at length Sc
lected and the wedding duly solemnized.
Then came the most important function
the weighing of the bride. who to her
husbands delight was found to weigh
1855 pounds, or 1850 kronen, an equiva-
lent to ESQ los.
So much did he admire stout men that
Mr. Bait tradesman who prospered ex-
ceedingly at Brighton under the Regency,
promised his only daughter that her dow
nv should consist of the equivalent in gold
to the excess of her husbands bodily
weight over hers. She at once threw over
her fiance, a mere atom of man, and
after due consideration made so wise q
choice that. although she herself weighed
upward of II stone, she found herself on
her marriage morn richer by no less than
1000 guineas.