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ward off the attentions of the gay youth OF
the capital The order in such crowd is
something wonderful. Mexico is much
better regulated city than New York, and
there is no brawling or noise.
The theaters of Mexico are excellent.
The first stone theater built in America
was erected in the western part of this coun.
try and you find fair theaters in all the
Mexican cities. Mexico has three theaters,
which range in seating capacity from 2,00C
to 5000, and you are sure of finding at least
one good troupe playing. I
HEARD EMMA JUCH
in the Teatro Nacional, and the audience
was as fine as any you will see in the
Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
The cream of the Spanish nobility of Mex
leo was present, and there were hundreds OF
finely dressed men and women in the boxes.
There were many pretty girls, some of them
Indians, some Spanish, some Mexicans, and
not a few American and English. The
theater was walled With boxes and all the
ladies were in full dress. The pit was
given up to the men who kept their hats ON
until the play began and who smoked be-
tween the acts
At the close of each scene all of these
men rose, clapped their opera glasses to
bhSlL ONCS duu Gu db Illt ldulCS III tlc
boxes, aid there was great deal of bowling
back and forth. There was considerable
visiting in the boxes between the acts, and
I am told that the Mexicans perform many
of their social obligations at the theater
Another night l went to the Teatro Princi-
pal, which is nearly as large as the Nacional.
This theater was founded in the seventeenth
century by two monks, and when it was
burned in 1922 it was looked upon as a
judgment of God for the sacrilege of the
Church trying to raise money in this way.
The monks, however, rebuilt it and it is
now one of the leading theaters of the city.
CAN PAY BY THE ACT.
1t is managed differently from our thea
aters and you can go in and sit for an act and
pay for that act only. listened to 25c worth
Of "Traviata" in the pit and might have
had an act in box for about 10 cents more.
/ was amused at the way the man in the box
office kept track of the seats sold. He had
a diagram of the theater, in which little
holes were punched for each seat. These
holes were just like those of cribbage
board, and into each of them was stuck a
little roll of green paper, which contained
the number Of the seat, and when picked
out my place he handed me one of these
green rolls, which formed my check for my
seat
Mexico has irst-class variety theaters,
and it has a circus which runs every day of
the week and nearly all day Sunday, and
which is operated by coupleof Americans
All told, the town is as well off for amuse-
ments as any capital of its size in the world,
and its standard of culture is improving
from year to year.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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newspaper are signed and the paper has to
print in every issue the name of a man who
Is responsible for those which are not signed,
ana In case Of trouble as to the unsigned
articles this man goes to prison. In some
@. the newspaper Offices here the attaches
assume this responsibility turn about. The
r Tempo or the Times is the organ of the
church party and it often denounces the
Government. Its editors are frequently
imprisoned, hut it makes about Si0, 900 a
year and II considers itself doing well.
SUPPORTED BY PRESIDENT DIAz.
The leading government. paper is the FL
Ugzirsrsqi This IS subsidized by the govern
ment, and it gets 81 900 a month from Pres
ident DiaZ. The editor has also been made
Senator; and he gets a Senator's salary.
The LHircrydt has about Is editors TO every
one reporter and this is the proportion in
most Of the Offices. The editorial are chief
" essays. The Nexicans do not know
what the racv paragraph means. The first
page Of every Mexican newspaper is de-
voted TO long winded critiques and commen-
tarics on current events or ancient history.
and the only live papers that the city has
are two dailics published n English, and
patronizcd by the English speaking people
OF Mexico.
One of these is The Tiro Repa5lics which
was established about 25 years ago, and which
makes about $4,000 year. It's editor is
Mr.. Wastelia Clark, and its business mana
ger is Mr. Sidney Guy Sea, one of the
brightest newspaper men of the United
States, who was forced to go to Mexico for
his health. Mr.. Sea was getting SO, 900 a
year from the Chicago Herald when he had
a hemorrhage Of the lungs, and the doctors
sent him to Mexico to die. He rapidly re-
covered under the pure air of the Mexican
plateau, and he is making the TiOo Republics
a very Taluable property. The other En-
giish paper is known as the Aagio-4nse75oaa,
l. has been only lately established but it
is fast increasing IN circulation and infu-
ence
REPORTERS DO NOT GET RICH
All kinds of newspaper work in Mexico
are poorly paid. Editors get from $40 to
S25 a week in money, which is only from
e. SO to SIS a week in American money.
The essay editors get the highest salaries.
As to telegraphic news the papers seem to
think nothing of quoting from their cotem-
poraries' kilograms which have been used
dav or two before, and an event three
mcnths old will be put in with as much as
surance as though it had just happened
Time, in fact, is of no Importance in any
affair Of Mexican life, and neither the peo-
pie nor the editors seem to care as to
whether the matter is new or old. l found
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DOCTORS SHOULD BE COOKS.
The Frying Pan Often Undoes All He Ac
complishes for His Patient.


complishes for His Patient.
In some parts of Europe the impression
prevails that physicians training is not
complete until he has become an expert in
cooking, and the idea is not bad one, says
DR.. Ohmann-Dumesuil in the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. At one of the colleges in
which 1 studied the policy was much
favored, and there were lectures on how to
prepare food to suit different constitutions.
Every one admits nowadays that bad cook
ing, and especially the indiscriminate use
of the frying pan, is one of the commonest
causes of dyspepsia, and many time a
doctor will go on prescribing remedies with
out effect, simply because the cook is un-
doing all the good he effects by calling upon
the weak stomach to do what it cannot
possibly perform.
There are very few articles of food that
must be absolutely banished from the
irTalid's room, the exceptions being chiefly
immature meats; and when all doctors learn
how to cook as well-as how to prescribe this
fact will be generally admitted.
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CARRYING THE BABY.

A Cute Little Hammock That Swings From
the Mothers Shoulder.
Lady's Pictorial.l
There is always something being invented
for the benefit of one class or another, and
the latest production of inventive genius,
the patent "baby carrier" will specially
appeal to the great host of mothers. This
most ingenious and useful little article is in
reality a miniature hammock, which can be
fastened round the neck at various heights
by strong hooks; the baby being placed in
side, the hands of the nurse are left perfectly
free, the arms are saved from any strain
or subsequent aching, and perfect COM
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The proportion of-male to female children
born in England during the last ten years is
as 1,O3S to 1000; but as the former suffer
from higher rate of mortality than the lat
ter, the equilibrium between the sexes is re-
stored about the tenth year of life, and is
finally changed by immigration, war and
perilous male occupations, to the extent
that there are 200 women of all ages to 949
men in England.
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ERE'S your daily
paper of tomorrow
This is the cry /
hear at 8 o'clock
every afternoon in
the streets of Mex
leo City. Dozens of
newsboys are crying
1t. Ragged, dirty
little fellows, they
look out under big
hats and stick cheap
ly printed newspa-
pers under your nose
while they yell out
in Spanish tn e
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Only Colored Woman Dentist.
The W orking Woman.l

A woman dentist! Yes, and little
colored one at that. She has neat, cosy
office at 216 Ninth street, Richmond, Vir-
ginia, and her sign reads 'cMiss Ida Gray,
Dentist" She is graduate of the school
of dentistry at Ann Arbor, Mich. She is
the only female dentist of color in the
United States, is doing good business.
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a
names Of their papers and say that they
contain all the news Of tomorrow. In the
morning thev will cry the same papers as
Just from the press, and pretend that they
contain all the news of the day.
Mexican daily newspapers are always
printed the afternoon before the date of
publication. The editors and reporters are
too law 10 think of night work, and they
have no idea of the value of news. Tele-
grams are just as likely to be printed three
dsvs after reception or to be thrown out en-
tiralv rs to be used at once, and a prosy
rhree-to'umn editorial often crowds out a
biz accident or good news matter.
DON'T KNOW WHAT A SCOOP IS.
The Mexican reporters do not know what
the wold scoop means, and many of them
will not take kilograms because they say
they have not the room for them. Neverthe-
less there are 29 dailies in Mexico City. The
most of these are subsidized by the Govern
meut. AL have small circulation, and the
biggest journal of the Mexican Republic
runs out only about 5000 copies daily. This
Is FL Monitor Rep0Jlicano. which is the great
independent daily of Mexico City, which
contains about 800, 600 people, and which is
bigger than Pittsburg. l don't know the
circulation Of THE DISPATCH, but it must
be al least ten times as great as this, and it
prints more kilograms in one day than the
Monitor RcpUbicaRo does in year.
Still the -H0M;5r Rep7lblicano pays $40, 900
year, and it is the best newspaper prop
erty in Mexico. 1t gets no subsidy from the
Government, and it is supported by the
Conservative party 1t is one of the most
independent of journals in its advertising
methods. 1t will not take al advertisement
for any fixed time, but only for as long IS
1t Is convenient 10 publish il, and it viii
not maNc any reduction in price for num-
Der Of Insertions. 1t has four pages, and
sells for cents copy.
EDITORS OFTEN GET INTO JAIL.
The editor of the Re1gnblicdBo is now and
then too decided in his criticisms of the
Government, and like all other editors in
Mexico he suddenly finds himself arrested
and given few months or year imprison-
meut in the penitentiary. There is practi-
caliy no freedom OF the press in Mexico. The
editor Of q newspaper who is obliged to
Elga his name to his matter never feels
certain as 10 whether he will not be taken
L. Brlcm, which is the name of the Mexi-
car pcnitentiary. There is in fact q corri-
dor Ia this prison which is devoted to news
paper editors and which goes by the name
oI newspaper row.
The most Of the articles in Mexican
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THE sCH0oLRoOMs OF CHILE.
Pupils Are Under Strict Surveillance by
Night and by Day,

The schoolrooms OF Chile are curiosities.
A row of benches extends entirely around
the outside of each room, where the young
gentlemen sit during recitation hours, the
teacher occupying a slightly elevated seat
in the center. The blackboards are outside
in the corridor, apparently reserved for
playthings and maps, charts, globes and
dictionaries are all kept under lock and key
Extending along one side of each patio are
apartments devoted to sleeping purposes, 40
beds occupying one dormitory. fhe boys
are under strictest surveillance by night as
by day, and each sleeping room has its
"watch"-a stern professor on guard in an
ante-chamber, whose bed is placed SO that
he can overlook every movement in the
dormitory. Under these circumstances there
is a pitiable dearth of ''larks" in these
model institutions.
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An old nurse says she has never used o
wine that has had such 6 pleasing effect on
her patients as that made by Alfred Speer,
OF Passaic, M j. A pure article.
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fort and safety are insured for the child
The "baby carrier" weighs under three
ounces, will wash, and when not in use can
be folded up into very small compass and
carried in the pocket. Every woman knows
how when baby wants to be nursed every
thing else must be put aside, and every
movement studied, therefore the value of an
article the use of which admits of book or
work being held, and saves the arm from
many an hours aching, can be thoroughly
appreciated.
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BEHIND IN THE NEWS,
Mexican People Don't Object
if Their Newspapers Are
Days Out of Date.
EDITORS OFTEN IN JAIL.
Book Stores Filled With Rare Old
Volumes of Great Value.
CULTURE OF THE SISTERREPUBLIC.
The Theaters Are Well Managed and Pat
rOnized by the Best Glasses.
ODD SYSTEMS OF STAGE MANAGEMENT
EDITORS OFTEN IN JAIL.
CULTURE OF THE SISTER, REPUBLIC.
The Theaters Are Well Managed and Pat
rOnized by the Best Glasses.
ODD SYSTEMS OF STAGE MANAGEMENT

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE pIsrATcH.l
MEXICO CITY, Aug. d
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PROOF OF A DOCTORS OPINION.

Nearer town are Columbia Heights, where
Mrs John A. Logan has a charming home,
and where DIR. William A. Hammond has
put up not only palace for himself and his
agreeable wife, but a sanitarium for his
many patients This shows what DIR. Ham,
mond thinks of Washington climate, where
spring is earlier and autumn later than in
Northern cities, and where outdoor sports
are possible the year round.
Drive up that most beautiful of streets,
Sixteenth, which is a straight line from the
White House to the boundary, and on the
first hill stands the stone castellated struc-
ture built by ex-senator and Mrs. j. B.
Henderson, of Missouri; opposite is an
ideal site for an ideal hotel. Beyond lies
the pretty suburbs of Lanier Heights lead
ing direct to the wild and picturesque re-
gion of Rock Creek, which Congress has set
aside for national park. Here, too, is the
geological park, which promises to be the
finest as it is the largest in the world. Hill,
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WHO ARE THE HAPPiEST7

According to One Au. hority People whose
Lives Are Devoted 10 Scielcc.
The earl of Derby answered this
question recently in an address TO the
Scientific and archaeological school of
Liverpool, an institution of which he
was one Of the founders. He said:
Having known men of many pro
fessions, / should say that the happiest
lives are those which have been de-
voted to science. Every step is in
teresting. and the success of those who
do succeed Is lasting.
What general, v4llat orator, what
statesman, what man OF letters can
hope to leave a memory like that Of
Darwin? An invalid in health. man
wh seldom stirred from home, man
until his later years very little known
TO the outer worl1, but who from his
quiet study rcvolutionized the thought
of Europe and viii be remembered as
long as Newton and Bacon-
''If fame be ever worth working for
Il do not say IL is-that kind of fame
is surely the most durable and the
most desirable OF all
These words are true of the disinter-
ested men of science. We have never
had in this country men more Uniform
~ c4lceFlu4 anu BOoO-lcNlt NltptFea lIihn
Franklin, Rittenhouse and jefferson.
who spent most of the leisure OF their
lives in the pursuit of knowledge: and
Prof. Agassiz was noted for the buoy
ancy of his spirits in every company
where he felt at home. But we can
say something similar of every person
who has a pursuit suited 10 his talents
and circumstances
The happy people are they who have
an occupation which they love. apart
from any advantage it may bring
them, one that they can pursue with
generous ardor. 1t is the element of
disinterestedness that cheers their
lives, whether they are engaged in
ordinary or extraordinary vocations;
and this Is the reason why earnest stu
dents have such keen enjoyment of
existence.-Chicago Herald.
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THE BERMUDA ONION.
What Billy" Florence Says to the vi
tues Of That Vegetable

What " Billy Florence Says to the Vir-
tues OF That Vegetable
". J. Florence was chatting about
provisions for fishing camps just be-
fore he sailed for Europe, when he said
TO n New York Press man: The second
year that | went tn the Restigouchc |
undertook to provision tho camp. the
party To go with me mum perIng eight
or ten persons. They kept coming
around every day for a week t. inspect
my list of articles ordered, and there
wasn't one of them that did not find
fault with something ordered or failed
to order. until l was very tired of my
Job There were five of them present
one day when | wrote down on the list
of things ordered barrel Of Bermuda
onions. The howl that went up was
the biggest kick that had experienced
/ sat back IN my chair and told those
fellows that onions were my special
feed and that this was my own pur-
chase. Do you know what happened
in camp? Why, those fellows grew SO
fond of bermuda onions that / only
got FIVE onions for myself out of that
barrclful-
Il have tried all kinds of waters, and
salts, and specifics. and remedies for
indigestion and general arrangement
of the stomach" continued Mr.. Flor
cnce, ''and the more have tried the
more certain / have become that if You
get your liver in order by the use of
such things your spleen or kidneys go
back on you. and vice versa But the
man who viii take two weeks every
summer in the country and eat Ber-
muda onion at every meal. and take one
for nightcap besides, viii be sound
as dollar when he gets back to his
work =,
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llc people IN the saloon.

the people IN the saloon
My blood boiled at the insulting
manner of the man. and 1 lost all con-
troll over my actions
'''tict out of my way and let me
pass, You red-headed scoundrcl" /
said as | made dash for the door.
~ general scuffic ensued, and | be-
lievc was giving him few we'll
aimed blows, when. to my horror, a
policeman rushed in and collared me
"a roughly as If had been a madman-
Whats this all about he de-
mandeds of the clerk, who was blind
with rage.
ARREST that man and take him to
the station-hO and | will go down
and make a charge against him
- But let me explain, | cried, in
loud tone
Explanations at the station-house.'
said the officer. as he dragged me into
the street, where IA crowd of idlers had
already gathered to see the fun.
''As | reached the sidewalk | saw
the carriage drive off 1T a rapid rate. /
learned afterward that Clorinda be-
came alarmed for her own safety. and
promised the driver a liberal reward il
he would drive to her fathers house
This made matters worse, for il looked
IA if she was an accomplice of mine,
and fled for fear of arrest.
Imagine the state of my feelings as
I was marshaled through the streets.
with five hundred urchins yelling all
around me! When we reached the po-
lice station the usual preliminaries
were gone through. The restaurant
keeper appeared, and made a charge
~. n
assault without provocation.
II told my story, but of course il
went for nothing, as the policeman
gave his evidence in Affirmative of the
charges. OF course 1 was walked off
to IA cell to pass the night in thinking
over my troubles.
I'm the morning, after being escort
ed before n police justice, | WAS tried
and fined ten dollars. tslegraphed to
a friend downtown, who soon came to
my assistance and paid the fine. went
home to my boarding house, and, as
luck would have it. the people in the
house were ignorant of my adventures
during the night / suppose they
thought | had been on a spree, but
they said nothing. and / did not en-
Tighten them.
to call upon my dear Clorinda and her
parents, for the purpose of explaining
my conduct All through the day !
had been framing excuses which were,
for the most part, lies and equivoca-
tions. When / reached the door my
heart beat so strongly that | felt my
courage giving way, and stood on the
stoop for several minutes before /
could summon sufficient courage to
ring the bell.
when the gIri came to the door !
asked if Miss Swan was at home. She
said yes and politely asked me to
take a seat in the parlor.'
'In few moments the servant reap
pearcd, bearing n card with the compli-
ments of her mistress. i glanced 1T
the card, and on it was written, in a
clear, delicate hand:
Have you got rubbers on. Have you the
mOnCy TO pay for your supper II not Will
lend you the necessary amount. c s.
Il made n dash for the door, and
was soon in the street. fearing lest the
father should appear and kick me out
of the house.
And now, my dear boy, do you
wonder that am still bachelor, My
advice to you is-beware of sailing
under false colors"-D. J. Finlay, in
y. Y. Weekly.
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inflict loss on them. Hence they
keep his account good at the bank over
which Time presides; they do II by
excuses, lending their countenance &c
laundering spcndthrift nd hope for
change But at last he who blunders
beyond certain point, who will not
learn wisdom, is abandoned by his
friends Old Time, the cashier then
meets him at the window with a sharp
refusal
Your account Is overdrawn. sir. You
are bankrupt. Men viii no longer eX-
cuse you, nor win they trust you. You
are written down a fool"
And ] observed that three strange
servants came in to carry him out
namely, Hunger, Contempt and Des-
pair.
saw, too, how men and women of
brilliant gifts overdrcw their accounts
The young actor, who bade fair to
stand at the head of his profession be
fore he was five-and-thirty,c C ountcd too
highly upon the patience of an admir-
ing public, and supposed they would
overlook his drunkenness and carou-
sails indefinitely. so the people did for
time. But when he had disappointed
them night after night when he neg
lected his study and relied on his gen
ius" and an occasional ''spurt" of
splendid work to make up. he passed
the point of endurance. Time at his
window dishonored his draft. The peo-
pie spat him out There were younger,
cleaner, more conscientious men TO be
had He was ruined
So was ruined the great songstress
who supposed the world could not get
along without her voice. 1t was in
deed wonderful voice. But she over
drew her account; She flagrantly
violated the proprieties of life; she un-
dermined society by her example
The world turned to find a new voice.
God Is ever raising UP new workmen
with gifts as grand as the old. If not
SO grand the better sense of the world
resolves to prefer and adopt the new
instead of the old which has become
unclcan.
And SO l look on women who counted
too much on their beauty, and ability
to charm, neglectinr to he true; on
youth who reclzoned too highly their
standing in the community as children
of ''old families or on education, out
ward culture, or technical skill eve
can do a great many things that other
people could not; and we shall be
tolerated" Quite possible, up TO a
certain point Clerks and master
worllmen there were who were .'sure
their services could never be dispensed
with, for who could be found who
would take their places?" But there is
always the risk Of an overdrawn ac-
count soon; the surety of it II last
then took my place at the window
with prayerful care Heaven grant me
to watch well my books that the ac-
count be not overdrawn, neither in this
world nor the neXt.-Harllley Harker,
in y. Y. Weekly.