The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-27

you are IL Turkey, do as the turkeys do,'-
! we VIII spend this beautiful summer Sun
Gay la Urugudydn and follow the crowd
! IN Inc sunshine. After few turns in the
Plaza, most OF the Montevidean world bies
10 Ell Pratio, an extensive pleasure garden
ABOUT three miles from the city, reached
| o. tramway through the fashionable resi-
gence suburb known as Paso del Moline.
me Praoo, belonging to the municipality,
Is lne park OF the common people. not so
much tor style and show as those down
Town, out patronized to some extent by
| the ~
SWEETEST OF TIE SMELLS,
In elegant carriages with liveried coach
men ana footmen and on horseback with
gorgeous saddles and silver stirrups. who
include a lew moments here in the course
OF their daily airing. A gay little river
dances through 1t, lined with willows and
the trees OF every zone, and four rows of
taII eucalyptus trees are planted at the en-
trance. From end to end the lovely garden
is nlIed with rustic fountains, flower beds
rockerles, statuary-but has never the
sign SO familiar at home, keep off the
grass" a pavilion within the enclosure
is especially appropriated by the Basuues
WHO make up rye share of Montevideo's
population, and swarm out on Sundays to
trip the light fantastic toe to the
music OF the drums and fageolets.
antastc indeed are their national dances,
Whlch seem 10 consist mainly in posturing
10 the slow. plaintive national airs. There
IS also French restaurant, Spanish bill
Aara rooms, German beer saloons, Yankee
shooting galleries, no end of booths where
native Gala Is sold, and all manner of ap-
paratus Tor outdoor games which the
young ana glddy indulge in, while their
elders loaf placidly on benches under the
trees Many families bring their lunch
baskets, prepared to spend the entire day
ana camp IN Gypsy fashion Notwith-
STANDING the number of cana stalls we are
surprised to see that there is no intoxi-
cation, and every body is harmlessly happy
apparently as much at peace with the
world 10 come, according to their lights. as
with the life here below. One thing NAV
De truly said of our easy-going southern
nelghoors, that though everybody. 10
man, woman and child imbibes freely of
wine, chicha Gaia or some other form of
tine rosy" and almost every body CANDLES
with a recklessness and persistepcv that
would astonlsh northern black-leg, vet
NOBODY gets vulgarly drunk, and the gam
ing IS not made secret one, to be steal
thlly INDUCED in by evading the law in
dGrkened corners.
PRIESTS AND SINNERS,
paupers and ladies of high degree. alike
take hand at baccarat, roulette and other
games OF chance, as undisguisedly as thew
take their dinners, quite as a matter of
course: and very much astonished would
they be should same good missionary come
along and intimate that there is wicked
ness In the caads, and in the glass ser
pent that stingeth like an adder. They
nave never heard such TO them) unique
doctrines in all their lives, and could not
be Induced to believe them. The aristo-
cratic classes. of course, drink only i'm
ported wines at table. and the custom that
SO largely obtains in the United States. of
serving coffee with the soup and ice water
all through, is a barbarism unknown in
Spanish America.
cana, pronounced csn-yah, the national
beverage OF Uruguay, is the fermented
Juice of sugar cane, and sells at the rate of
: cents the goblet. AS the goblets are the
size of German schooner" and the stuff |
contains about 80 per cent alcohol spree
Is within reach of the poorest. Yet the !