The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-02
STREETSC ENES IN MAD
RID.

The Madrieflos offer not q fat, bn
rather an extremely round ,contradic.
ton to this general and accepted
idea of the national appearance
Slenderness is the exception with
them. Their city is q forced flower
IN the midst OF mountain lands, and
the men themselves rejoice in q
rotund and puffy look of success,
which also partakes of the hot-houze
character. They are people of leisure,
and, after their manner, OF pleasure.
How they swarm in the cafes, in the
Gate of the Sun-Where they keep
up the Moorish custom of calling
walters by two claps OF the hands
or on the one great thoroughfare,
Gale de Alcsla, or in the bull-ring of
SundayI They are never at rest,
ye: never altogether active. They
never sleep, or if they do, others take
their places IN the public resorts. The
clamor of the streets, and even the
snsrlinR cry CT the news-venders-
''La Correspondence" or "El Demo.
crata-G"-is kept up until the email
hours; and st FIVE CT six tie restless
stir begins sgSin WITH the silver tink-
ling of the feet mule bells. There
are no night-howliDg wstchmen in
Madrid; but the custom OF street
hawking is rampant in Spain; and
here, In addition to the newsmen, we
have the vail of ths Water-criers
miHistering to an unquenchable pop
ulsr thirst. the lottery.ticket eellers,
the wax-maGeh peddIers, and, dozen
others. The isvorite bird of the
country is kind OF lark called alofa-
drG, much hung In cages outside
The windows, whence they utter
with that nonotonous recurrence
which seems fixed principle of all
things-a hard, piercing triple note
impossible to ignore. This loud, per-
sistent "tWit, twit twit." resembling
at a distance the click OF castanets,
begins with daybresk, and gives q
mCst discoursging notion of the Span
ish musical ear.
OF course there is home lii ssnd
there is family affection in Madrid,
but the stranger naturally does not
see a great deal of these; and then it
may be doubted whether they really
exist TO the same extent as in most
other civilized capitals. It becomes
WesIiscme to make sallies upon the |
town, and day after day find so much |
Of the population trying to divert it.
sef or killing time in the cafes and
clubs. The feeling deepens that they
close interest in their homes. More
.hsu that, they do not seem really to
resort to these for want of q sufd oiently
De amused. Even their language
,sils to express the amusement idea;
he most that anything can be for
hem, IN the vernacular, is ''enter-
aiming" Still the choice of light
diversion is varied enough. Opera
furnishes in winter, in spring and
ummer the bull-fght; theatres are
Always 10 blast; cooking.mains are
Kept up. Hitherto gambling has been
another tsvorite psstime until
checked by the authorities. Not con-
snt with sil this. the Msdrilefcs seeb
n lottery shops that excitement which
Americans derive from drinking
sloons. The brightlY.lighted lottery
gency occurs as frequently az tha
'ther indication of disease, the
.pothecsry's window, in American
titles. People of ali classes hover
bout them both by day and by night.
Fosters confront you with Announce
nenIs of the Child Jesus Lottery,
be lottery to aid the Asylum of Our
lady of the Assumption, or the
ystionsl, vhich is drawn thrice s
Month, with a chief prize of thirty
NO thousand dollars. and some tour
hundred other premiums. There are
many small drawings besides con
family going on; not day passes,
q tact, without you being solicited by
wandering dealers in the allurihg
chances at least half dozen times -
9GTper's Magazine.