Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
priced. It costs thirty-one cents
pound, and i. largely takes the place Of

butter. 1t is very hard to find good but
ter in Mexico. That made by the natives
is largely from goats milk. 1t is white
and is dressed without salt. A smart
American has started dairy in Mexico
City. He has Jersey cows and gets from
S5 cents to 81 pound for his butter,
and proportionately as high prices for
his milk.
You find good chickens all over Mex
leo, and there seems to be plenty of
game. Chickens are peddled around in
coops on the backs of men, and now and
then you will see IN Indian with perhaps
two dozen tied together by the legs and
thrown over his shoulders. He goes with
these from house to house and sells them.
Eggs are sold in the market in little piles
of four to the pile, and not by the dozen,
as we sell them, and note that in some
places the eggs are packed in corn husks
for shipment. Everything in the Mexi-
can market seems to be sold in piles, and
can find no standard of measurement
except the eye. There were piles of
four tomatoes, of six little potatoes, of
handful of red peppers and OF other like
things around each peddler, and these
peddlers were Indians, and the Indians
seemed to be the marketmen of Mexico.
They carry their wares for miles into
the city on their backs, and a dollars
worth of market stuff is carried for days
in order that it may be sold here. The
buying is done in the same picayune
way as the selling, and this city of 300,-
900 people lives from hand to mouth. l
don't believe there is cellar in the
whole town, and every morning the SER
wants go to market and buy enough for
the day. They buy for cash and before
going to bed you have to leave enough
silver with your servants for the morning
marketing. It is not fashionable for
ladies to do their own marketing and
everything is bought by the servants.
The result is that housekeeping in Mexico
is very expensive, and between the prices
charged and what the servants steal the
outlay is even greater than it is in the
United States.
The Mexicans themselves live much
more cheaply than we do. The morning
, meal even among the richest classes con-
sists of only cup of chocolate or coffee,
with plain bread or sweet cake. The
Mexicans eat this by dipping it into the
chocolate and they often take this meal
in bed. Coffee is served in your rooms
at all the hotels if you desire it, and if
you live like the Mexicans you will find
your charges much less. The second
breakfast is served at twelve or one
o'clock, and at this all the family sit
down, and it is really dinner rather
than breakfast. Soup is always served
at it, and the Mexicans have hundred
different kinds of soup.
The evening meal is eaten about seven
o'clock, and at this the family meets as
at the second breakfast. No work is
done by any one in Mexico for about
two hours after this midday breakfast, and
the business hours here are from 9 to IL,
and from to 6. Between 1 and 8 the
whole city sleeps or gossips, and after z
o'clock you will find none of the stores
open. Mexican bread is almost altogether
made by the bakers, is fairly good and
tastes very much like the French bread.
/ have not had waffle nor a griddle
cake since I came into the country, and
look in vain on every bill of fare for hot
biscuits and pie. I do not find the
Mexican dishes half as hot as they are
painted, and l doubt not but that their
cuisine is fully as healthful as ours.