The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-02-13
MEXICAN NOTES.
Some Bits OF Information Concern
ing the Dona
The Manners, Habits and Customs
of an Interesting People De-
cribed in Concise
Form.

No person carrying a load is allowed
to walk on the sidewalk.
1t is contrary to law to indorse a
check from one person to another.
Drivers never c1uck to their steeds,
but urge them on with shrill Kisses.
There are free parks, free seats and
free music in all the cities of Mexico.
ALI kinds of vehicles as well as BIZ
cycles are Obliged to carry lights after
dark.
Strips of newspapers are, fastened to
the balconies in front OF rooms that are
for rent.
Every householder is required to
sweep the street in front of his prop
erty and sprinkle it twice day.
All men and most of the women Of
the lower class smoke cigarettes, but
none of them chew tobacco.
Heavy wagons are not allowed to use
the streets paved with asphalt except
when absolutely necessary.
"A hack driver, never leaves his seat
and you open the door for yourself and
settle with him on his high perch.
A Mexican servant, or messenger
never enters even a business house or
addresses his superiors without remov-
ing his hat.
Hand rakes are almost unknown
Leaves and loose grass in the parks are
swept up with long handled brooms,
made of stiff twigs.
Street cars never stop at street or
track intersections to avoid right-angle
collisions, but the drivers make their
approach known by shriIl horns.
If the police find anyone carrying a
bundle through the streets who cannot
tell where he is going, or give clear
account of himself, he is promptly ar
rested.
The single entranceof even the larg-
est apartment house is locked at ten
o'clock every night, and the portero ex-
poets "a qualification" if he is reused
after that hour.
When a person is injured on the
street he and every one connected with
the affair are taken to the nearest po-
lice station, where each is required to
make declaration.
The water pressure is seldom suffi-
cient to furnish a supply to upper
stories, and every house is supplied
with a force pump with which a reser.
voir on the roof is kept filled.
The residences are all blessed. At
the completion of the home guests are
hidden and the ceremony of blessing
| them corresponds to a house-warming
The priest passes through each room
sprinkling it with holy water.
The banks will not take for deposit
a ffve-dollar check on bank in another
city, although it bear the Endorsement
of regular patron with good balance
/ to his credit, but the same customer
! can go to the bank and get a New York
draft for $1,000 without paying for ii
and the bank will send around the next
day for check to cover the amount.
Invitations to baptisms come in many
dainty forms. but Invariably have at
tached to them a new piece of money
To the immediate members of the fam
lily the coin is of gold, but to most Of
1 the hidden is sent a silver ten-cent
| piece.
Everything and everybody pays di
rect tax, from the street porter to thu
I largest mercantile establishment, and
the stamp tax for documents is equally
lucrative. Even placards and posters
other than your own in your own house
must bear a stamp.
Water for the bathrooms is heated il
a novel way. The separate supply fanl
on the roof has an opening from top t.
bottom, through the center, that act
as chimney to the fireplace below tn.
tank. A small fire heats a good quan
tity of water very quickly.
Nearly every one is named afte
, some saint, generally the one to whom
the day OF which he was born j
sacred. If he bears the name Of a sain
whose day falls on other than his birth
9y, he celebrates only the saints da:
and calls it el dia de su santo.
The Mexican policeman often seem
bit stubborn, but it can be truly sal
r in his favor that he never sets him
self up as a court of judgment. If an al
tercation or fight occurs on the stree
he does not attempt to decide whic
party was right, bu both are promptl
taken to appear before the judge, who's
9 business it is to determine which on
q started the row.-Modern Mexico.
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