The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-03

MIN some particular flower from her
WINDOW when he comes to learn his
fate
Ihere are many and numerous other
ways OF starting a love affair, and the
ingenuity sometimes displayed is very
amusing. There is one factor in par
Ocular which is favorable to lovers in
this country, and that is the cleverness
OF the servants. There is no man who
understands the fine points of an in
tr1gue better than your real genuine
Mexican mozo, and he will throw him
self IN perfectly whole-hearted man.
ner into your plots and help you out of
the most unexpected difficulties. Ali
praise to the mozo! He never intrudes;
out at the same time he is muy SIM
patico, and watches DEVELOPMENTS.
cannot refrain from referring to one
particular episode of which I have no
doubt select few have some knowI-
edge. There is a certain street in this
ancient and historic Ciudad de Mexico
which is the nightly scene of a most
comlcal and certainly very original
courtship. Creep softly out at the
Wltchlng hour, not midnight but the
proper time, and peradventure (pro-
Vided you look in the right place) Won
may come across a youth leaning in a
studlously careless position against a
wall. Above him, at some consider
| able height, is a small stone balcony,
and the occupant of this is a pretty
young lady, closely yelled in a black
tapalo. The first thing to strike the
| observer as somewhat curious is the
fact that the man does not seeem to
be interested in the balcony at all.
Neither does the girl appear to be
+ leaning over the balustrade on the
lookout for any one. But pause a
moment and presently you will discern
| faint black line wandering up the
J expanse of white stucco wall, and then
/ the whole puzzle is solved! These
| TWO charming lovers are communicate
ing with each other by means of a hand
telephone. They each have one end
OF the instrument, and if you pass by
| suhlciently near you might possibly
catch an indistinct murmur of voices
! He is certainly very constant. l had
| occasion to pass that way one fnisera-
4 Bile evening during the rains; Mexico
was then simply inundated with water.
and the rain on that particular even
! ing was simply coming down in sheets.
That however did not daunt the knight
OF the telephone. There he was, as
usual, sheltered in a serviceable-look-
| ing waterproof The rain water off
the street had come PUP over the pave
ment, and he stood patiently but no
! doubt quite cheerfully, in a formidable
puddle. Such heroism surely deserved
equal sacrifices on the part of the bal
| cony too, but not a bit of it, The
! young lady was invisible though it was
noticeable that the tell-tale speaking
cord passed up over the rail of the
balcony and in between the half-closed
/ windows of the room | pictured the
senorita to myself sitting comfortably
! ensconced in an armchair in nice. dry
place, and I have no doubt I was pretty
near the truth
What infatLa ton! He, poor man, was
sublimely happy down below in his pud-
| ole of water and wet macintosh One
would think that it must be sufficient
! ~ hard task to whisper Sweet moth
ings' over telephone without the ad-
ditional disadvantages of a pouring wet
night. However, I dare say they man.
| aged to keer the interest up.
Imagine yourself all this going on in
a public thoroughbred But then we are
in Mexico. and there's the difference,
! One must net forget to add that a gem
darme stands in the middle of the road
a little further away with his night Ian
tern shining brightly. He stands muf-
fed up in his cape and watches with
stolid indifference. Probably that
gendarme and the young man know
each other well by sight