Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-26

own country, You may be perfectly sure
of one thing, even in the cosmopolitan
Capital of the Mexicans-i. e., that your
quarters viii not be palatial, and that
there will be conspicuous absence of
most of the comforts and luxuries, without
which you would not remain an hour In
any inn in the United States. But you
can make yourself thoroughly sat home"
in any Mexican hotel, and having once
been assigned to a room, are thenceforth
left severely alone as long as you choose to
stay. In most places there is no such thing
as register. If you insist upon 1t, the
clerk sometimes writes your name on
blackboard on the wall, and pays no fur
Their attention to it. If cards are left, or
you have callers or kilograms, ninety-nine
times out of hundred nobody about the
hotels knows anything about you, or
where to find you, and you are
not found at all. If you order a
carriage to come at certain hour you
must go down into the patio and wait for
it, otherwise the driver may wait till
doomsday before anybody will notify you
of its arrival. If you want letters, select
them out of the general sack; if you want
anything else, get it if you can. You
have your room, haven't you? What
more can you expect?
1 have remained weeks in one hotel
without ever seeing the proprietor or
manager, or learning who he was. A
blanketed servant generally shows you to
a room, and takes your money when ready
to leave and very frequently one old
woman is the only "official" you will see
about the house, however long you stay.
The beds are never made up until the
guests arrive and take possessiOn-so you
are sure of the freshest and whitest of
linen. Towels are sometimes furnished,
and occasionally candles, with or without
extra charge, but never soap or matches.
Mexico possesses two rare and incompar-
able things, good climate and good matches
the former free but the latter you must
pay we'll for. All Mexican hotels are on
the European plan-you order what you
like and take what you get. If you like
warm meal, you will certainly not be
disappointed so long as the pepper crop
holds out. One soon grows accus-
toned to the Mexican cuisine and
learns to enjoy it-chili and all
As for frejoles (beans), the universal ac-
compartment to every meal, Boston has its
reputation, but the beans of Mexico would
make Bostonian deny his town, at least
from the bean standpoint.
There is no butter in Mexico-that is,
as Americans understand it. A pale lubri-
Gator is occasionally served, made from
goats milk, which is infinitely to be pre-
ferred to American oleomargarine and
other substances. Coffee, being native
to the country, is generally pure and
well made, though stronger than
the average American can well en-
dureSstill seasoned to it, and the
red-hot chill. Breakfast is universally
served at noon, dinner at or Whereabouts
and some hotels also provide suppers be,
tween 10 o'clock and midnight. COT
fee is brought to your room
in the morning, with roll if you desire
it, for an added charge of real Shilling
or two. A hotel laundry is unknown but
you can give your soiled garment to the
old woman or the blanketed Mexi
can, who appears to be the
only functionary about the premi
ses, and he or she gives them Out
to some friend; and you may know for a
certainty that they will come back il
time, excellently 'done up;" but be sure
to stipulate the price beforehand, or you
may be "done up" as WE'LL Hotel rate,
are cheap in Mexico, the best being MOI
more than 81 a day for room, and meal:
four reateS each. FANNIE B. WARD.