Show south american bova I 1 AH the love making in south america must be carried on through a third person if a youth desires to marry he does not speak of it to the girl whom he wishes for a wife but to his own father the latter if he approves goes to the father of the young lady sad the two discuss the matter together each tells the other what he will do for the young folks and between them a contract is drawn up respecting settlements and all such things the intending bridegroom is not permitted to see his fiancee for a moment before the wedding As soon as that event has taken place there is a wedding breakfast and usually without the formality of a preliminary tour the couple settle down to living either in an establishment of their own or more often in the house of the parents of the brido or the groom one drawback about in south america is that in taking a girl to wife it is apt to be considered a matter of course that the young man marries her whole family also he has no occasion for surprise or if together with his bride fifteen or twenty people come to share his household and domestic comforts including all her available relatives and their servants these gatins aro a very clannish race and a father is apt to be willing to adopt a raft of sisters and cousins and aunts not to mention a mother in law rather than have his son or daughter leave the family roof it is due to the strength of family attachment among them that hotels in south america are only for strangers from afar the natives always find hospitable entertainment among the kindred cincinnati commercial gazette |