Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-16

The pay of a servant is, amatlacurlotity-
Observation-Disclosures if the bill is as big
as the word it must indeed be astonishing.
The Yumas have a peculiar ceremony
for celebrating the arrival of maiden to
manageable age. When the mother
concentrates the tact to the other women
est s7i!e coilrct together and feast
i lu4de-of slowed dog, maybe, or broiled
rattIesnake or pounded grasshopper. The
applicant for the honors of womanhood is
placed in a sort of oven made by digging a
hole in the ground, in which heated stones
are laid, covered with twigs and bushes.
Water is then thrown on the stones, caus-
ing them tosteam like an engine. When the
novice is completely saturated with pro-
fuse perspiration, she is plunged into the
river to take bath. This process is kept
up for three days, alternately toasting and
ducking the girl meanwhile giving her
nothing whatever to eat. If she survives
the heroic treatment land she generally
does, the feast is then partaken of and the
maiden is
A CANDIDATE FOR MATRIAIoNY.
No wonder that so many of this tribe
die of consumption, and that none of the
women live to old age! Previous to a
birth the neither goes off alone some dis
lance from her village, and resides by her
self until the child is month old, seeing
nobody. If she dies during the ordeal, it
will not be discovered until the month has
elapsed. On the thirtieth day the band to
which she belongs assemblies and selects a
name for the little one-something like
Tetlayhioniltiliztli, for instance-and then
mother and child are escorted to their
home.
Among all the Indians of Mexico zone
thing at time is the principle of life
that is, they never undertake two kinds of
business in the same family If man is
family do nothing but fish, as did his
father and grandfather before him, and as
his children and grandchildren will in
years to come. Frequently an entire tribe
or community engage in the same branch
of business, and keep it up from genera
ton to generation. Going down through
the heart of Mexico, from Ell Paso to the
capital, the traveller sees this illustrated in
a stiking manner. At Leon he is beset to
buy woven serapes, and the innumerable
peddlers have nothing else to sell. AT
Queretaro it is opals-nothing but opals
at another place it is canes at another
pottery. At Celaya fifty men and boys
thrust boxes of dulce into ones face, and
will not take a refusal as long as the train
stops. The dulces are sweet, paste-like
compounds, favored with pineapple and
other fruits, put up neatly in small, round
boxes of gaily-colored wood. The round
boxes are assorted, according to the differ
ent favors, and packed in long boxes OF
varying sizes and prices. Celaya is known
all over Mexico for its sweets.
Within two hours ride of the last-named
place is Irapuato, where the most lucious
Strawberries can be bought at the station
every month in the year. The peddlers
never have anything but strawberries. and
those are put up in pretty, homemade
willow baskets, holding quart, two
quarts or three quarts. No doubt the fruit
could be cultivated with equal success in
many other places-but it isn't; to do so
would not be Mexicanl So Irapuato has
the monopoly of Strawberries.
A little farther down the road, at San
Juan del Rio, is the place to buy rope
lariats. In front of nearly every house in
the town is a rope walk; and all the peo-
pie are devoted to the manufacture of
iariats. FANNIE B. WARD.