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A 25 of March, day of the Incarnation of the year of 1930, arrived at the city of Chihuahua to the cupboard of The Popular one, The House of Pascualita, a model that would shake to own and strange by having a living image and by the amazing one seemed with its owner, the lady Pascualita Spread pear Trees of Pérez, and with its sister Peseta, as well as by the influence of the movies of They were projected in that epoch.
It was told that was the body embalmed of the daughter of Pascualita. She never contradicted such versions, same that were published by the newspapers of the city. These publications laboriously were sought by the same one Pascualita, who exhibited them in the cupboard of Chonita, as originally they baptized to the figure, by to have arrived the day of the Incarnation. In an authentic magnet the legend was converted of Chonita or Pascualita, as many called him, that were in truth multitudes of the city and of different parts of the state the ones that in the course of the days piled up in the sidewalk to analyze each detail of the female figure, that more than craft was a work of art. There were days in which met so much people that the road traffic of the street Liberty, place where initiated The Popular one, came be suspended from time to time.
Pascualita received numerous accusations by telephone, by going against the morale, as well as visits to the store that before the smaller carelessness nailed its nails in the face of the model, leaving him tracks that would last for decades, for which Pascualita opted for make public that did not be a matter of a body embalmed.
By being a model of wax, with hair, eyebrows and natural eyelashes inserted one for one, Chonita required a series of special cares, besides those own of any person, as is the bath with shampoo. In an occasion they arrived at the store, already located in the corner of the streets Ocampo and Victory, some courts with the order to do an investigation,
Pascualita asked the police officers that returned later, because Chonita was found in their bath, before what the investigators accumulated more you doubt and they insisted on the case.

So much it was the insistence, that the model was removed, wrapped in a robe and with a towel covering its hair. It was permitted them to revise only the face, finding that was of wax with perfect glass eyes. Without a test of the crime they went still doubtful. The fact was diffused for the media, what only managed to increase the legend.
With the passage of time new histories have arisen, like the one that says that the day of the wedding of the daughter of Pascualita fell him a poisonous animal in the crown of the girlfriend, what caused that to die in the same altar and wanting Pascualita to immortalize it embalmed it to have it with her in its store, dress for always of girlfriend. It was told that walks for the nights in the store and that changes alone and even that spills tears in certain time of year.
In the book The commerce in the history of the city of Chihuahua, published by the National Camera of Commerce in 1990, the version is given that in one of its trips to Mexico City, Pascualita responded to the prestigious store The Port of Liverpool, where acquired fabrics, orange blossoms and branches. Upon leaving the establishment, some people were fixing a model whose beauty captivated it, for which was returned and spoke with the manager so that be to sold it. The official of Liverpool excused himself disputing that its sale would be impossible, therefore the sculptural lady had just arrived from France and he was the news by his face and his hands of wax. Pascualita insisted and almost entreated, but the answer in each occasion was courteous although sign: "Is not for sale the model". To the persistent Pascualita remained a last and desperate resource to be carried to Chihuahua the beautiful object: threatened its speaker with supply not again more fabrics of The Palace of Liverpool if the model was not sold him.
The manager did a balance mental express train of everything that acquired Pascualita in each season and in its decision to weigh more it related to sales that the sculptural beauty, and besides would win with the sale of the model. Thus Pascualita brought to The Popular one to its professional model to captivate to the chihuahuenses.

The book north barbaric Legends says that Chonita was brought from Paris to order exprofeso of Pascualita and became point of admiration among the chihuahuenses, that curious day with day they contemplated that shop window. It was so much the admiration that caused among the public, that the positive fibers and the magic of a powerful guru that arrived from distant lands, who passed for the cupboard and fell in love with immediate of Chonita, they gave life to the model.
The guru lived two months in the city of Chihuahua and every day, upon arriving the ten at night, he waited for Chonita in the street Victory to cause to accompany by so incomparable beauty, carrying it of the arm he visited the better places of then, the same thing the Hotel Hilton that the Café of the Corner or the Casino of Chihuahua.
By the year of 1988 he responded to The Popular one a woman that talked that years ago she was in the corner of the Ocampo and Victory set against the figure, just then he passed his boyfriend, that was extremely jealous and he shot him. The last thing that saw she upon going losing the sense was the face of Pascualita, as called to the model. It awoke later in the hospital with the certainty that had been she who had saved it, for which since then he prays in gratitude to the miracle. A Saturday in the afternoon in the year of 1993, they were heard set against the cupboard the harmonious of a northern assembly that an admirer of the beautiful figure carried him so that himself not to feel so alone. The music lasted more than two hours, what caused the conglomeration of many curious that accompanied the lover in its serenade.
Of the legend of Pascualita reports televised in the local, national and international environment have been carried out, like the trasmitidos in the programs First Edition of Direct, Hard, and Aztec Television of Televises, First impact of Univisión and in the chain of Telemundo. In printed media The Legend has appeared at the local level in the newspapers The North and The Herald of Chihuahua, to national level in the north of Monterrey and to International level in the latin American Sun of Holy Ana California.
At present the students of the schools of the city and of the state respond to The Popular one to ask a copy of The Legend of Pascualita, the one that study upon touching the theme of the Legends in the matter of Spaniard.
The relatives of Pascualita speak of the individual without them bother even that the people continue murmuring on what could be an anti-religious act of Pascualita. Before it they say: "Is a pretty legend, that has little of base in the reality" For them is a great satisfaction that recall their aunt Pascualita.
Pascualita Spread of Pérez has passed to better life and to almost seven decades of the arrival of the model the legend forms part of the daily life of the chihuahuenses, that the trasmiten of parents to children.
It taken of the book Nine Legends of Chihuahua, sand flower Collection, Diffusion Cultural/UACH. Chihuahua, Mexico, April of 1998, reprint pages 33-36
Pascualita Spread pear Trees of Pérez
Was Pascualita a producer of illusions, creator of attires for special events and forjadora of all an epoch.
With experience, dedication and creative ingenuity transmitted to each stitch, to each darned and to each veil the best of their desires so that countless girlfriends crystallized from their wedding, their illusions.
Each misty and white one I brought wedding that left the hands was as special as the personal flavor and the exact measures of the happy newlywed, wardrobe that many times carried implicit the last shout of the international fashion or the finest originality in designs clearly chihuahuenses.
In Pascualita and its business always there was a halo of mysticism, for which good predictions could have emanated of each fiber of sateen, silk and respective lace of the romantic legend that was formed in around its and to the "living model".
Without it to have been chihuahuense of birth, was in Chihuahua where did a prestigious and famous name that still nowadays continues representing a pleasing fame.
Pascualita Spread of pear Trees, for the posterity known as "Pascualita", was born in the year of 1887 in the locality of Jades, Zacatecas.
They were her parents Mrs Paschal pear Trees and Mr. Tiburcio Spread.
According to the customs of the epoch, he married very young, at the age of 17 of age, in 1904, with Mr. Enrique Pérez Loera, with whom a son procreated. The wedding was performed in its hometown.
In 1908 she and its family came to Chihuahua. Four years later were transferred to The Step, Texas, where they established a store of pack that Pascualita attended and in which was being internalized with the administrative management. Not of bucket its anxieties in the branch of the making, returned in 1917 to Chihuahua to open a store of fabrics and accessories on the avenue Melchor Ocampo, among the streets of the Liberty and of Guadalupe Victory. It came accompanied by its sister Refuge, to whom fascinated him to sew and to devise housecoats of baptism.
From then the idea to design came him also wedding dresses.
Time later transferred its negotiation to the street Victory in a spacious localities of a plant set against the today Central Pharmacy. In that extensive house the lamentable decease of its husband occurred Mr. Enrique Pérez.
Years later its store moved and home to a real estate sent to build for her in the street Liberty 608 where operated 2 years. Then entered company with Mrs Amalia Abbud Ochoa to reopen the store in the Liberty and Third localities where was for 3 years.
Finally it decided to give alone its steps by the commerce and was separated of its associate. In 1945 Pascualita could buy the property with the one that Chihuahua would know it: the Victory street corner and avenue Ocampo. Nevertheless, it was until 1954 when was established finally in said real estate. Already then its negotiation was called "The Popular one" whose motto was "The house of the girlfriend of Chihuahua" or simply "The house of Pascualita".
Mrs Pascualita treated to great part of the company of long ago, since girlfriends of all the economic strata responded to the store to order with anticipation custom-made attires and were few the ones that forgot to invite it to the ceremony.
After they to have completed as the mother and like businessman, Pascualita passed away March 31, 1967, virtually to the foot of the tube, because their negotiation would reach another posthumous achievement. In May from that year the National Camera of Commerce launched an assembly for the contest of cupboards of the independence days, in which "The Popular one" obtained the first place with a model dressed of China Village. Mrs Consolation Mascareñas received the prize September 20, 1967 in absence of the beloved one Pascualita.
All in all, was Pascualita a merchant of fame as large as the cauda of a wedding dress. A chihuahuense by adoption, of pleasing memories... as everything that signifies, exactly, each emotional occasion in which a family contemplates the dusty one and kept I brought wedding.
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