The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-25
GIFTS ARE
MADE TO BRIDES
One Father Gave to His Daugh-
ter Her Weight in
Cigars.
ANOTHER SAME IN SOAP
While Still Another Gave a Ton of Coal
for Each Pound the Weight of
Groom Exceeded That OF
Bride.

A rather valuable wife in the present
state of the soap trade must be the lady
whom NJ. LIE Blanc, a Partisan, has just
married. The fair bride, who was the
daughter Of a hairdresser 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 lac
pounds the couple will possess sutti-
cient soap to last them for some years
to come.
When asked by his prospective fa-
ther-in-law, a tlourishing West End to-
bacconist, to name the present he
would like to receive on his wedding
day the young ma suggested a few
boxes Of cigars as being of more use
than the usual gifts presented on 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
ceremony he had the bride weighed,
and tina same evening forwarded to
his future s~on-in-law some dozens OF
boxes of cigars. Weighing in the asgre-
gate 1913 pounds.
Mile. Marie Brie. the niece of a Mar
settles confectioner. received from her
uncle on her marriage, three years ago,
an equally eccentric gift in the form or
her own weight in chocolate. Perhaps
the worthy patissier had in mind when
making the present the custom which
prevails in Peru. There on the mar
rage morn the bride is accurately
weighed, and after the the
bridegroom is presented by his wife's
relatives with her weight in sugar.
Coal Merchants Gift.
A Yorkshire coal merchants present
to his daughter on her marriage was
to be regulated by her weight, for every
pound of which she was to be the re-
cipient Of a ton of best Nallsend. His
Intention, which was communicated to
her on the day she became engaged,
stirred her. as she was a young woman
of most frugal mind, to mulate the
fat women of the fairs, so that during
the six months her engagement lasted
she would nave made further inroads
MO her fathers store had not that
worthy merchant hurriedly married
her off at a loss of only 172 tons.
The father of a girl living in the
town Of Koniggratz offered to present
anyone who should become her husband
with her weight in silver currency. AS
the lady was we'll favored and of a
build which, although not exceptionally
stout, promised an amount ample to
make a good start in business, more
than one claimant appeared. The most
eligible was at length selected. and the
wedding duly soiemnized. Then came
, the most important function-tke
Weighing of the bride, who to her hus-
> bands delight was found to weigh 15E
;. pounds, or 1850 kronen, an equivalent
to esq los.
Sc much did he admire stout mer
that Mr.. Bait, a tradesman who pros
pered exceedingly at Brighton under
1 the Regency, promised his only dough
ter that her dowry should consist Of thu
! equivalent in gold to the excess of he
husbands bodily weight over hers. Sh'
! at once threw over her f1ance. a mere
4 atom Of a man. and after due consid
j Grafton made so wise a choice that, al
though she herself weighed upward o
t twelve stone, she found herself on he
4 marriage morn richer by no less thai
: 1000 gulneas.