Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-02-13

IDHn luSb W JnbO thOlO 10 'oi 49,
thjeving going on here, in proportion
TO the population and its poor, than IN
most other countries, for the influence
of Catholicism is paramount in Mexico,
especially among the lowest classes.
venture to assert that with all our
spring-locks and careful precautions to
bring in even our door-nats at night.
more Things are stolen in New York in
single day, than in all Mexico in 9
year
/ wish | could paint you right here
picture of the room which for many
weeks has been my special sanctum. Ii
is quite II grand apartment (for Mexi.
COZ, and | have grown to love every
article in it, AS one chamber is fail
type of tho majority, let me describe il
to you. It's ancient doors-which have
been guiltless of paint since their max
ing some two centuries ago, are garn
ished with enormous iron hinges, anC
staples like the fastenings of barn
open one into the sala dc recibo, anC
the other into the "hall," if we may sc
call the main entrance of Mexican
casa through which guests, carts, anC
donkeys alike find egress. My owr
wide window looks out into the tlowery
court, and is indeed "a thing o
beauty" the soft gray of its wooder
bars relieved by a few vines clamberins
up outside, and q fine-leaved mesqui
branch trailing carelessly across one
corner.
am blessed with the rare luxury O.
two yards of wool carpet and tiny
goat-skin rug, which my sole appre
ciates, assure you, between my slip
pers and this pretty pink floor of cold
! cole bricks. Here are chairs enough
to seat the Mexican army, ranged il
funereal rows against the walls, tn,
usual triangular corner tables, anC
several quaint articles of furniture il
solid mahogany, which would deligh
the heart of an antiquarian. But tn,
greatest treasures, which would shin,
in any collection of ceramics in any
land, is the great water-jar and bowl
of native pottery from Guadalapara-
dark-red, with strange figures painted
upon them, which it would be no "A tC
worship, they being not ''in the like
ness of anything in the heavens above
or the earth beneath, or the waters un
der the earth" My little brass bed
stead, upon slender frame work, il
kept polished till it looks like gold, i.
draped and curtained like French
woman's, with no springs, and mat
tress to which good SOFT board would
be blessing. We have no quilts
or blankets in Mexico, but singl,
spread of gorgeously lowered damasl
in crimson and green, frlnged al
around, beautifully disposed, so as no
to conceal the fine linen sheets which
trail far below it. Mexican pillows ar,
not flat and square as ours are, but fla
and narrow, each exactly as long a
the bed is wide, like our holsters
There crimson "ticks" are stuffed witt
cotton, and the cases are the especia
pride of the housewife-of finest linen
with broad strips of handmade lac,
ming the length of them, and mucl
dainty needle work and lace ruflling a
the ends. Over the various species O
animals who occupy that couch con
Jointly with myself, it is best to dis
creetly draw the veil," merely re
marking that other creatures besid
'the wicked flea'' abide "where n,
man pursueth." Very sensibly, trunk
in this country are never sot fiat upor
the floor and left to the tender mer
cies of mice and cockroaches, but ar
elevated upon racks made for the pur
pose. Every room in every casa ha
its reminders of religion in crosses an,
pictured saints, and generally some
where about the premises is a famil,
altar, containing an image of the Vn
gin, and a small, blood stained Christ
in perpetual crucitiXon.