Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-27
SUNDAY IN URUGUAY.
1t Is . Day of Recreation, With q
Little Religion Thrown In.
RACES, SALOONS AND THEATERS
Are Taken as Q Matter of Course, and
Almost Anything Goes
HOW NATIVES MAKE THEIR BUTTER
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE p1srArcu., !,

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE pIsPArcH.I
MoNrEv1DEo, Feb. 2S-Our last day
Uruguay-and Sunday at that! wondt
why 1t Is that short trips of especial inte
sst, such ~ this between Montevideo an
Buenos Ayres, must always be made 9
night, the world over, despite the protest
Of disappointed travellers who thus fin
themselves deprived of views they came ia
to obtain? Is it from philanthropic motive
on the part of steamship companies to spar
passengers the pangs Of seasickness b
sending them straight to bed, or on ground
Of economy concerning meals; or is dark
ness preferred because ''deeds are evil?'
Whatever the reason, it prevails in thes
countries as universally as in our own.
The steamer that is to convey US across
the broad mouth of La Plata to Argentine
capital lies waiting in the harbor, but not
wheel will she move until nightfall. lie
US kill time" in the interim by gatherin,
| up the scattered crumbs of information ",
have gained from many sources concerning
this interesting little republic and serve
them in Sunday olapodrida
Montevideo Sunday Made for Man.
From the aspect of festive Montevideo
you would never dream that this is the
Lords day, for wider contrast from quiet
church-going Sundays at home could hardly
be Imagined. Here everybody goes to
church most religiously, but after mass in
the morning and vespers in the evening
they consider their duty done to heaven
and proceed to enjoy the blessings of this
world after their own fashion. The plazas
are thronged with smiling people, prone
nading to the music of military bands: The
retail shops, saloons, etc, are open all day
and largely patrorized. The race course is
in full blast with its gambling booths and
other accessories. Tonight the theaters will
contain the largest md most fashionable
audiences and present the best perform
ances of the week, and there will be public
balls and private parties and other social
gatherings all over the country.
The customs of Spanish America, as of
nearly all the countries OF Europe, in re-
gard to Sabbath keeping, are very different
from our own, which are still somewhat
burdened by the ideas of our Puritan an
cestors. who fined man S. for the unbe-
coming levity of kissing his wife on that
seeru Suo hWiu& uay, auu oonotIuoo LUG loFe
Of God to mean relentless persecution Of all
who held other opinlona
Sunday In the Great Park.
Acting upon the advice Of dear old lady
knew In New England-"My child, when
you are In Turkey do as the turkeys do
We will spend this beautiful summer Sum
day Ia Uruguayan and follow the crowd
In the sunshine. After q few turns in the
nf &hn
to Ell Prado, IN extensive pleasure garden
about three miles from the city, reached by
trsmvay through the fashionable residence
suburb known as Paso del Molino. The
Prado, belonging to the municipality, is
the park Of the common people, not. so
much for style and show as those down
town, bu4 patronized to some extent BY the
swellest of the swells, in elegant carriages
with liveried coachmen and footmen and on
horseback with gorgeous saddles and silver
stirrups, who include few moments here
in the course Of their daily airing.
A CAV little river runs through 1t, lined
with willows and the trees of every zone,
and four rows of tall eucalyptus trees are
planted at the entrance. From end to end
the lovely garden is filed with rustic foun-
has never the sign so familiar at home.
''Keep off the grsss." A pavilion within
the inclosure is especially appropriated by
the Basques, who make up large share of
Montevideo's population, and swarm out on
Sunday to trip the light fantastic toe to the
music Of drums and 1ageolets.
Tho Dances Are Only Posturinsa
Fantastic indeed are their national
dances, which seem to consist mainly in
posturing, to the slow, plaintive, national
airs. There Is also French restaurant.
Spanish billiard rooms, German beer sa-
looms, Yankee shooting galleries, no end of
booths where the native cana is sold, and all
manner Of apparatus for outdoor games,
which the young and giddy indulge in,
benches under tho trees, MANY families
bring their lunch baskets prepared to spend
he entire day and camp in gipsy fashion.
Notwithstanding the number of cana
tails we are surprised to see that there is |
10 intoxication, and everybody Is harmless
y happy-spparently as much at peace with |
he world to come, according to their lights,
u with this life here below. One thing |
nay be truly said Of our essy.going South |
nan. woman and child, imbibes freely of
vine, chicha, cana, or some other form of
the rosy" and almost everybody pambles
With q recklsssness and persistency that
rould astonish a Northern black-leg-vet
lobody gets vulgarly drunk, and the gam
ng vice Is not made 4 secret one, to be
tealthily INDUCED by evading the law in
arkened corners.
Everybody CANDLES Openly.
Priests and sinners, paupers and ladies of
Ugh degree, alike take hand at baccarat,
oulette, and other games of chance, as un-
isguisedly as they take their dinners,
ute as matter of course; and very much
stonished would they be should some good
Missionary come along and intimate that
here is wickedness In the cards. and in the
lass q serpent that stingeth like an adder.
hey have never heard such Ito them)
nique doctrines in all their lives, and
ould not be induced to believe them. The
ristocratic classes, Of course, drink only
nported wines at table, aud the custom
hat so largely obtains in the United States
serving coffee with the soup and ice
ater all through is a barbarism unknown
, Spanish America.
Cana pronounced can-yah), the national
everage of Uruguay, is the termented
lice of sugar cane, ami sells at the rate of
70 cents the goblet. As the goblets are
le size of German SCHOONER" and the
uf contains about 80 per cent alcohol, a ,
,ree is within reach of the poorest. Yet
le fact remains that there is absolutely no ,
Temperance compared with what may be
und in our own country, where bad
hisky abounds and well-meaning organ
ations have bestowed upon it the fictitious
lurement Of forbidden fruit