Show in isow mexico in the old spanish american days in the southwest marriage was a matter in which the contracting parties had little to bay the question of choice and fitness being settled by the parents of the couple the practice has fallen so atoch out of date in the present generation that it sounds odd to read now in a published account of a recent marriage at guadalupita Guada lupita N M in which a acx ican of sixty eight years wedded a senorita of sixteen years that the corn sensation pensa tion he was called upon to make for tho difference in their respective ages was settled at thirty varas of hind an adobe house and five apple trees presumably to bo paid to her parents |