STRANGE LOVE TOKENS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11928, 23 October 1919, Page 6

STRANGE LOVE TOKENS.

A live alligator, two and a-half feet long and weighing about 25 pounds, threw the post office at Salmagne, in Texas, into a fever of excitement recently. He had almost chewed himself out of his package, and was violent enough to have routed the entire post office staff if he*had not been discovered in time, to prevent his escape. “Oh, these Mexican customs!” dolefully sighed the postmaster, Mr 3. W. Newbrow. “You see our population about here is chiefly Mexican, and It has grown to'be an amorous custom for the Mexican swains to send their fair senoritaa a live alligator as a token of their undying love and admiration. It is an outgrowth of an ancient Aztec custom, and is supposed to signify that they would become as loathsome as the alligator rather than relinquish their sweetheart’s love,” The postmaster declared that it was the ninth alligator during the past two months which had been sent through the parcels post to Mexican girls. And the regret of the employees is that the reptiles are often carelessly wrapped. Senorita Carita Juanita Di Qu ixotte was the recipient of the last alligator. Bhe was greatly pleased when post office employees handed her the package, and declared that she had bought two yards £,of red ribbon with which to adorn the reptile’s neck.