Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-03-11
the LAZY MExlCANl
'Bill Boyle" Tells His Experience
in Sunny Mexico Among The
INDECENT Greaser.
ssCOFFIN.NAlL' SMOKERS,
The Mexican Not Lazy but Over.
come by Piety and Lack of
Employment.

LmplOymouG
To the Editor of the COURIER DEMOCRAT:
To begin at the beginning the Mexican
wears BROAD trimmed, high crowned,
conical shaped, gaudily decorated hat
His cranial dome is not go large as G..
Clevsland's, but il it were it would con.
tain az much saw dust as that of our
retiring chief magistrate. Evidently the
Mexican has been melted and poured in
to his clothes. But by some inexplicable
blunder at the foundry his brains seem
to have run into the rotunda of his
trousers. I do not know how he un-
dresses, unless he greasee his person.
Possibly this explains why he is called
"Greaser Those of them who wear
coats favor the "Seemore" style of gar
ment, but most Of them take up their bed
and walk. They wrap their bed blanket
about their shoulders and lounge around
town all day. Many of those blankets
have all the colors of the rainbow, and
colors that we're not in use when the
rainbow was built. Some Of them are
proud of their snowy blankets, proud as
a, but peacock isn't in it. They are as
proud rs Scotch piper attired in kills
on Bobby Burns birthday. I never met
Solomon, but it is my opinion that when
he was IN all his glory he was never
dressed like one of those Mexicans.
The Mexican generally has cigarette
in the slot in his or her face, and this
morning saw two women crossing their
we'll a great many ladies sit Ill the park
with their limbs crossed-but these two
Mexican women crossed their legs for [
saw them. That Is I saw the women
smoking cigarettes with their semi lur ar
limbs entwined: One of them finished
her cigarette, then drew sack of tobacco
and package of paper from the folds of
her skirt and rolled up another ''coffn-
nail" She scratched match on the
seat of her arm chair and puffed away
like veteran user of the weed while
poor little newsboy, green with envy,
wondered if be could ever become as
proficient IN editing cigarette.
The Greaser doesn't know any more
than the law requires. A stranger in
seeking information might as we'll ques-
ton the burro as his swarthy rider. The
Greaser knows less about moe things
than the treasurer of the sugar trust on
the carpet in Lexow's investigation par
lor. He won't assay two ounces of horse
sense to the ton. There is an air about
Greaser's adobe hut which strongly in.
vites the tourist to avaunt. or wear
clothes pin on the nose. 1t is said that
over 200 odors greet the probiscis of the
traveller as he approaches Florence. In
this respect the Mexican quarter of
Ell Paso is doubly the Florence of this
country. OF his uncleanlisness and con-
sequent fragrance suffice it to say that
the hope which springs eternal in the
human breast has not gone to the ex-
IRENE of believing that the oleaginous
cuss can be induced to take bah. Yet
he is healthy animal. One secret of his
health is that he INDUCES in sunlight in
wholesale quantities. In the morning he
will squat on the ground on the sunny
side of a building and remain squat until
the sunshine leaves him. Then he will
move to the afternoon side of the build
ing and there re-squat. If Byron were
here he would say:
Eternal summer gilds them yet
But all except their FUN is set.''
Gentle reader, do not misconstrue the
wild and woolly writer. It is possible
thac the Greaser is not lazy but overcome
with piety. 1t is more charitable to think
that his snti-sudoriic propensity is part
of his religious belief rather than an
eagerness to avoid work. He knows that
this terrestrial sphere is only temper
airy abiding place; that mans allotted
three score and ten is but fleeing sba-
dow Of the life Elysian. He has heard
o. land that is better than this. He is
preparing for everlasting happiness; lie
is practising eternal rest.
BILL BOYLE.
Ell Paso, Texas, Feb. 80. 1897.