Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-01-07

An Important part OF the advertising
In the Argentine newspapers relates 20
Funerals. The family always Inserts
state.ncnt or death and an Invitation
to It's friends 10 be present nt The iun-
orai They announce the masses. which
ate given from year to year on tho an
nivcrrafica OF the funeral thereafter.
and an ffiondh Of the deceased aud hls
family are supposed tn attend fuch
masses or 60 leave their cnrda at the
door. Here Il n sample funeral notice;
Ni,koiaH imera tara Q. y. 4. y.
Died June q. 1879
The family Invites the persons Of
their friendship 10 attend the masses.
which. fIr the eternal rest ~ his soul.
will be- celebrated In the church uf san
Miguel "wednesday. the 2lnd % Juno.
1898. from to 10 "a. M. The family VIII
assist nj the mass az 10 o'clock.
IN response TO this notice all the
friends and relatives 81 that family
wert expected 20 attend this mass.
Thoro were servants "a the church to
receive their cards M they went IN. aud
those who could not go In person rent
cards. A. soon a. the family got back
from the mass they probably looked
ovcf tho cards. and the person who hal
sighted the corpse, now dead nix years.
undoubtedly received the recruitment %
tho family, Every Argentine watches
81 the masses said for his dead friends
ana the deceased friends ~ his friends
that atiii live. The AfEentinca respect
funerals. Every one takes his hat on
and stands rcvcrently stan az the
hcarrc paraoE, and Il II etiquette TO
bare your head when passing a house
that has crepe on the door.
CITIES OF THE DEAD.
There arr me cemeteries IN an ~ tho
Arlcutlne cities. nuenoa Ayrca has go
acres ~ them. not large area aa CONF
pare with some ~ our cemeteries. but
bis enough when II u considered how
Nouth American cemeteries are built.
The Nnuth American cities 81 tho dead
aru genuine cities, In which tho de-
ceased are an closely packed and
crowded az the living IN New York
Hat The cemeteries have their paved
streets, their narrow courts. and .yvn
thcii tenement houses Or vaults, where
the poorer dead are laid away tn rrHt
for 90 much per YEAR Tor season. I
saw such ccfnctcricn IN frru. chile and
bolivia. aud I have found them also Ia
the Argentine. ! have aa yut, however.
seen no cemetery 70 crowded az the
hrsoletn, the fashionable graveyard ~
liuenus Ayrcs. II covers thirteen acres
and u contains. I am told. 100000 In
hnhitanta. There are enough cofpsca
without cruwding. and there n a high
stone wall about II strong enough
hope 20 keep their ghoHtH In. Inside thia
wall there " central street or avenue
paved with marble. cutting the city In
halves. As you walk NJ this you find
NJ the center n place where eight other
streets branch on M anRlca. All ~
these streets are paved with marble or
inotlacr, and they arr cut by smaller
streets dividing the cemetery into "A
great number of blocks.
IN looking over this beautiful city ~
the dead you notice that the houses fc-
lenhlo those ~ a city ~ the llvlnu.
They arr ~ all Alzcs ana conditions,
small and biz. costly ana mean. the
palaces ut the rlch and the tcncmonta
OF the poor Each house IN a vault
and each contains from ono 10 hundreds
OF Inmates. Some u the houses arr Ia
blocks, marble ntruCtursr from eight "a
hfteen feet hiKh ana eight 90 ton fcrs
wide, each the property of one family
Some stand alone with only a crack be-
tween their walls and those u tho
vaults next door. All have but onr
room mat chn De seen, ana this room
u In nh eases the same ahApr. although
furnished In different degrees 81 mag
niicrncc ana taste. n might be- called
IN. chapel " the dead.
II N four feet square or more and
nvo feet high. being entered rs q door
at the level of the street. In The back
81 u thcfc u u marble slab or table set
into tho wall, ANA upon this HnmrtimVs
rests a coffin, The slab Ia covered with
lnmhfrquin % ilnc lace. aud In itn
cantor stands a cruciflx with tho dying
christ upon "a. ur perhaps a waNon
Image ui Mary. tho motner Of God.
Upon some such affairs nrr silver candle
sticks and above many ~ them Tampa
I9as.Ia 4
other. on tho marble huor thrre arc
flowers, sometimes real. In the shape of
EfuMing plants, sometimes huunuets
placed there fresh for the dny, ana AT
othem artificial flowers aud immnr-
tclles made To last Tor years. The doors
Of the houses are often plate glass. Al
have locks and not few padlockn.
Many have lace curtains. and the most
nrr covered with gratingn OF iron curl
ounly wrought
hut whore are the Inhabitants ~
these houHos7 GOd knows. can only
show you where their drcnycd bodies
are, Como with me a. tho cemetery.
Through the grating Ia the Eoor ~ that
vault which has been opened Co admit
a corpse ynu can see steps which lead
below Hero the proprietor and his
family sleep In the basement Their
beds are those collins resting nn the
shelves which have been fastened ono
above another In that brick wall, kepps
inE thcm In death, ua In life. togcthfr,
while their friends sim living make
their oneringH ANA their prayers above.
! don't know but that this 10 bctter
than our way. These people Ito here
and dry mp within their vaults, We are
planted In the earth 10 siyo 10 worms a
feast,
WHAT nuENos AYREs EATS.
Speaking about fcusting reminds mo
that the ArgentincH cut more meat To-
the person than any other people of tho
world, outside the cities the people
live ON mutton ana beef, ana there are
tens of thousands ~ square milea upon
which tho people would bo glad to trade
pound OF meat for a pound ~ bread
any day, In iiuenus Ayrca the annual
consumption "a 2N pounds OF meat per
pounds per year FOR each family In Tho
city, This ~ the highest Average In
the world Dublin has sixty pounds
per person, Berlin ninety-nine pounds.
Paris 10, pounds ana London i2s
pounds ! don't know what the amount
Is Cor New York. but Il must be far hs-
low the consumption of the Argentine.
| / nave before me the report of tla
! buenua Ayrra markets Tor the lust
month. a few quotations Wiii show ynu
upon what the ArFrntnua feed. They
/ ate within those thirty days more than
| $1,000 boeves 1900 sheep aud over A.. 900
/ pigs, They consumed 10000 hens. non
| ronsterH ana 1900 turkeys, goose aud
/ ducks, They ate more than Gl.O00 braces
| of parlridges 100000 pounds uf nsh
ana 2b,000000 pounds Of vegetable.
Among the other Items arc some dishes
| MnInIn "a son a.. q