Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1881 — The Bride of Tunis. [ARTICLE]

The Bride of Tunis.

Paris Figaro. A news melancholy from the Tunis. One knows that in this country droll one has the habitude to admire the women much stout. There was there one young woman of which the hand was sought by a lover impetuous. She saw him—she loved him. *Everything was of accord, the parents wereamiables, the fortunes were equals. But one day it found itself that the husband future discovered a thing affrightful. The bride did not weigh but three hundred pounds! With a calmness terrible he said to her: ‘We shall not re-see each other no more. The bride of my brother weighs four hundred pounds. Is it that I could bring the shame upon my family in espousin .r a skeleton?” He left her bathed in hot tears. As-soon-as, she took the determination. She resolved that she would enfatten herself. She ate continually for a fifteen of days. Mercy! Despair! She weighed but three hundred and fifty. Therefore, taking her courage in the two hands, she bought a tube of rubber, like those at the means of which one fattens the geese of Strasbourg. At the end of twenty days she attained the weight needful. She sent to her lover. He was run himself to the house paternal. As he entered there was a sound deaf (unbruit sourd) like the noise of a gun. What horror! His bride was the victim of her love too true. She had exploded.