The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-13


their nests without instructions. Though
gentleman dare not speak to
the falr enslayer whom he has
been staring out of countenence night
after night at the opera, he can follow at
respectful distance when the author of her
being hurries her home, discover where
she resides and tnenceforth prance before
her, windows and become her shadow when
she goes. to church or promenades in the
plaza. The mischievous god
LAUGHS AT LocKsMITHs,'
in Uruguay as elsewhere; and though a
lover may not call upon the object of his
devotion, they manage it somehow-possi-
Oily Win the more eagerness and success
because no opportunity is afforded for ac-
quaintance before marriage.
10 the fifth circle men only are admitted.
Near the door are soome queer looking
iattced boxes, which remind one of certain
windows In the Chinese quarter of San
FRANCISCO. Inquiry developed the fact that
these are set apart for the use of persons in
mourning, who wish to alleviate their woe
with advertisement without being seen of
men. Tickets to the parquette cost from
% to "a each, in gold; and light opera
Italian, French or Spanish-with really
good music, is the rule. Here, unlike
the custom of Santiago, Valparaiso
and Lima, the ladies nearly all wear
hats or bonnets and dress in
SILKS or satins of gorgeous colors, few be-
Ing bare-headed and none in either black or
white There are three other fine theatres
in Montevideo-the San Felipe, Gibbs and
Pollteama-the last named being exclus
lively devoted to opera bouffe. Another OF
the handsomest edifices in Uruguay's capt.
tai is the Hospital de Carload. three stories
high and 800 feet long, situated on the Gale
Vieate Cinco de Mayo, "25th of May
street'-coVerlng more than an acre OF
ground and containg beds for $50 persons.
1t is one of the richest hospitals in the
world, and, strange to say, is entirely sup
ported and maintained by lottery. Its
beds are nearly always full, and the pa
tients are cared for by the Hermanas de
Caridad-"Sisters of Charity" an organi-
cation similar to the Brothers" who are
DONG such good work in TERRA del Fuego
and other heather countries. This hospital
owes much of its popularity to the means
of It's maintenance, the lottery being the
favor1te Institution next to the church, of
every South American. In every city one
meets men, women and children on the
streets selling lotterytickets as commonly as
newsboys are seen selling papers II the
United States. Every day in the year
from early morning till late at night, the
ubiquitous vendors wander about the
streets, thrusting tickets into the faces of
passers-by and crying "Cincuenta mil pc
la suerte. Tenemos ell bueno, caballero.
Tenemos enteritos, Senior; tenemos quintos
| tamblen. FIFTY thousand dollars for to-
morrow. The prize is fifty thousand dol
lars. We have the winning number, sir.
We have complete tickets and quarters
| also" The scheme of the lottery is as fol-
lows: There are seven drawings every
month, the grand prize at enc time being
$50 coo; at another, s25, 600, and at another
$4,000. What is called complete
ticket, (un enterito), sells for $4,000 in
gold; and it consists of five quiptos,
| (ffths), which may be bought separately
at the rate of Sc each. AT every drawing
twelve thousand complete tickets
are issued, or $4,000 Quintos; and
there are twelve hundred prizes Should
all the tickets be sold, the tickets would
amount to $4,000, while the amount de-
voted to prizes would be 100000 thus leav-
ing to the Hospital de Carload a clear
| profit of $50, 000-not a bad income in q
single month, showing that III this case
charity begins at home" How many
people are impoverished by spending their
all for lottery tickets and wind up as re-
clplents IN the hospital that has absorbed
their funds, L am unable to say. The lot
terry craze, like gambling, is a vice that
grows upon the victims, and all Spanish
Americans, male and female, rich and poor,
are addicted to it. The Loteria de Carload
has handsome building down town where
its manifold business is transacted.
1t reaches to the ramotest
parts of the republic, tickets
being SOLD in every village and hamlet, and
even in Brazil and the Argentine Rapublic.
1t is astonishing how many are disposed OF
every month. OF course the entire S120-
600 worth are net sold every time, but the
hospital runs the same chance as other PEG
pie of winning prizes with the unsold num-
how Mo- fn hA l,l & ~
British hospital-a plain, substantial struc
ture which cost s40,0 900 and can accommo
date about seventy-hve patients. The at
tending physicians and nurses are all Eng.
lish speaking Protestants, and many 8
travel-worn Anglo Saxon owes his life
to their illustrations. Another i'm
portant Institution of Montevdeo in
which most travellers are interested is the
postoflce. 1t occupies rather handsome
edlfce, built expressly for the purpose and
is tolerably we'll conducted, considering
that it is managed by the natives whose
rule of life is the transposed axiom, never
do to-day what can be put off until to.
morrow" Among its several queer
features is the open courtyard into which
you go to post your letters There is an
opening beside the letter boxes with the
word inutilization painted in big letters
. above it, and behind the opening stands 8
clerk whose business IL is to ''inutilize' or
| obliterate the stamps upon letters, and you
must present them to them before dropping
them in the box. What would happen tC
the letters If you did not do this l cannot
, tell. The clerk takes his own time
for it. finishes mis- conversation
with some other employee before paying
reluctant attention to you, meanwhile
f smoking his cigarette; then he stares a
I you curiously, reads the superscription or
the letter, evidently specializing upon it.
contents, weighs it on his hand, and finally
} condescends to put blotch of ink on the
big blue square of the Uruguayan stamp
/ BY the way, have you ever seen the fiae
of Uruguay2 In my opinion it is the pref
test in the world, next to the stars anC
, stripes of Goods country" and the sky
, blue and white stripes of Argentina. Thi
, is also in alternate stripes of blue ant
white, with full-rayed golden sun in tn,
, upper corner nearest the staff, where thu
{ square of stars appears in the American
banner. FANNIE B. WARD.
A SUGGESTION.
We wish to make suggestion to persons
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