Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-21

serape in a roll at the back Of their sad
dies for use in case Of rain.
milk tickets. One ticket buys one litre,
which is a little more tnan a quart.
A cup of coffee at any of the hotels or
restaurants in Mexico is composed of two
thirds hot skinned milk and one-third
black coffee.
Many of the largest stores have no reg
ular men employed for the delivery of
goods, but depend upon the cheap and ON
nipresent cargadore.
tive trees, with a stem as thick as ones
wrist and an umbrella-shaped top three or
four feet in diameter.
Every kind of sweetmeat or confection
or dessert: Is "dulce"; candy. cakes of all
kinds, puddings and preserved fruits nave
but one name-dulce.
entree to the -four hundred" of Mexico
City is to own a coach and horse and drive
on the PaSeo every day.
Girls of II to 10 years wear their hair
hanging loose down their backs and their
hats are held in place with a rubber under
Rents do not become cheaper as Won
move higher up in apartment houses. In
fact, the upper story, though it be a third
one. is worth more than the first.
MeXicans consider it unwholesome to
battle after y o'clock. The bath houses
are open at 6 o'clock in the morning ard
lew patronize them after noon.
There is 4 lunch room in connection with
the larger stores for the clerks and en-
pioyes, who are legion, the clerks standing
IN a nearly solid row behind the counters.
Chiioren wear mourning in Mexico; even
pabes IN arms wear black sashes and black
BOWS on their bonnets. and children above
a year or two wear all black costumes.
Ihere is probably no country in the
world where more animal food is consumed
than by the better classes of Mexico.
They eat meats in great variety three times
a day.
The peon men find it necessary to wear
the enormous. heavy plated straw sombre-
70 to protect their heads from the tropical
| sun. DuI sne women hnva r0na II arabanIo
for centuries!
Cows are still occasionally driven to the
front doors there are no back doors) of
residences. and there MIXED, to the extent
OF q quart or a pint, as the customer may
hold. "
At s O'Clock every morning the carpen-
ters hammer may be heard on new build
,ngs IN Mexico; Bricklayers. stonecutters.
mechanics OF all kinds, street aborers and
o'clock sharp.
When the grass in the parks begins to
look pale. instead of fertilizing it by top
dressings, the gardeners grub 1t all ur and
throw it away. Then they cultivate and
in Rui a few d Lns S the and nark SOW iN r fresh seed, and
slang in Spanish.
Business is suspended on big religious
holidays. VI "'''ai
1t is the polite thing to give your COM
be a gentleman.
Even after men and women of the lower
class rise to; the luxury of shoes they still
oiSda1n anything so effete as hosiery.
Mexican lettuce is sweeter than that
grown in the States. and the common class
es eat it like fruit without any dressing
All the public hacks are periodically
passed IN review and inspected by experts.
who order repairs made when they are
Buildings in course of construction. street
work or any kind of Improvement is never
Ielt without a Waterman. either day or
Men carry ice cream freezers about skill
1ully balanced on their heads. and sell
small glasses of frozen sweetness for /
cent each.
Both the postofice and the express COM
panies take drafts for collection in all
fees. nave ~
fr You can buy a postal card that will go
from the City of Mexico to Boston for 2
cents. A postal card tc be delivered any
where in the republic costs 3 cents.
Rent Is not only collected in advance. but
ySur landlord I'd will ask you for a guarantee
before he turns his house over to you.
Cnecks are seldom used in ordinary COM
houses always keep several thousand dol
iars IN their safes. and many of them make
it l,m a 1 rule h never !, to make a check for any
The small engines that pull the suburb
al Trans are never seen in the city. They
a team of mules attached to each car
brings the passengers to the center of the
city. and takes the outgoing ones to the
engine. The changes are made very
quickly.
Cigarettes are made of tobacco.
Messenger boys have occasionally been
seen running.
Whenever a business changes hands the
rev firm always adds successor or sue
cessors to its name.
The prospective stopping places of trav-
l elers entering Mexico City are taken nv
police officials as they leave the railway
| stations.
The regulations regarding the practice of
medicine are very strict, but anyone who
practice dentistry. ~
"A 500 bicycle rents for a dollar a day or
$50 per month. A $500 typewriter will bring
from SO to SIS n month. but an $500 piano
can be rented for $40 a month.
Horses are never allowed to stand still
turning from n drive the coachman I'M
bitches his horses and walks them up and
down the street for ten minutes.
The cheapest wax matches sell for 1 GEN.
tavo a box. Every man carries his own
box, rs matches are never left lying
around loose for indiscriminate use as in
American hotels. cigar stands. etc.
The saints days of MeXicanS are made
the occasion Of more ceremony. presenta-
ton Of gifts. etc. than their birthdays.
hearing the name of the saint celebrate
this anniversary.
A wise precaution that is always taken
by a new firm IS to send out a new circular
TO all the prominent houses in the city and
parties with whom they have dealings.
bearing a fac simile of the firm name and
of the signatures that will be used on
checks, etc. Banks and other mercantile
houses adopt the same method of notifica-
ton when they change cashiers or other
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