Cochise review., 1900-11-06
ALAND OF CONTRASTS
An Inside Glimpse of the Social
 Life of Mexico.
Many Live from Hand to Mouth, But the Majority Put On No Aira-- Simplicity and Good
 Taste Rules.

the pawnshops, which hard-heaoc.- Asturians or north country opania. D- manage, and there is great majority who live on what they earn and make no fuss in social show. The average young Mexican marrieg before he is 25. and he does not take his bride to Q boarding.house; she does not wear Gia- mouds and sealskin sack, or affect to be wealthy by any manifestatiop ot clothes. She dresses neatly and becom ingly, and it is to her own little fur nished house that her young husbar1 takes her.
 The Mexican. the typical Mexican loves his home He has net just the word for the place, for he calls t poet, icslly his 'hogar," or Aresids, and he has no fireplace. But 1t is usually oneStory house, surrounding g patio. or courtyard, wherein grow flowers, where often there is a fountain and singing birds epcaged make music ip the morning hours. The babies come along with almost astronomical pune tuality, and they are welcome. When Allah built this world he had h mind just such genuine homes as these He never imagined boarding-house as home for young married folk
 know something of intimate Mex leo, and 60 have had occasion to note that courtesy, everyday politeness, is g universal article. You do not cut man, says the correspondent Of the Bos- ton Herald, because he happens to live in little house, nor abjectly bow down to some wealthy owner of great man sion and master of many servants. Es, sentislly, the Latin, and therefore the Mexican, is democratic in public. Cab inet ministers shake hands with poor clerks, and bow to their wives if they happen to know them. The high mightiness of the social magnates ia small New England manufacturing town reveals an instinct for snobbery which, Allah be praised, iE not included in our daily reckoning in Mexico.
 The president here is pretty big nun, assure you. He holds power four long years. and reelection is GUS tomAry. He iss ruler to the full extent of the word, but he drives about in carriage no better than that of many . prosperous merchant, His personal stan is not composed of generals, as in Some Central American countries, but and he is accessible to anyone who has is reduced to the absolutely necessary, . aound reason for taking his time
 1don't want to paint Mexico ss so- eisl paradise; it is not. But although thafs are hsartburnings and social riv- alries7 fn the now cosmopolitan capitol crowded with foreigners of many ra tions,r the Mexican social life, that of the best people, is really simple sud we'll sustained. The real old families put on no airs; their great homes gre ample; their dinners good, tseir taste cultivated by travel and observstion, and the poor relation sits down un- abashed at meal time with his for tunats relative.
 How do II know this? Because have dnsd with many fine old Mexican fam flies Enter the poor relation. ar aunt we will suppose, who has made mar nage that did not turn out well ansa, cialiy. She wears modest black, her gown is of cheap stuff, made st home, probably. She is greeted with hugs and lisses, and entsrS into the talk of the family unconsrrainedly, giving her views of matters in general, and shows pleasure at seeing her nteces hand somely gownsd Sometimes they take her to ths theatE with them CT to drive in the family carriage
 People are not ashamed of poor re,s tions; they are part of the great scheme of social life, and the Mexican hAx too much ofthe Moor not 10 know that fate rules our deStinies, and that to one man-is given riches and to an other poverty, So 1t has been cecreed And the Mexican usually has a big warm heart inside his anatomy
 Old Wople (well, this Is the parsdise of grandpas and graudmas, s fine old Spanish and oriental wsy) are always rsterenced. Their opinions are sought; they are the "old guard" sn6 respect cd accordingly. One corsults them on LmpOEbdul idMIIy AotN '1iS SI "A tefs engagement, ths profetsion for the boy, the naming of the babies, GIG. For them the favorite chair or corner the siesta uneisturbed, the preferred diah at table, and, when they die, you may bs sure they are mournsd Sin. serely.
 Mexieaus havs no notion of being ashamed to Show publicly warm af- lection for their aged fathers and mothers The greAt lawyer meets his white-haired mother In the street car and kisses her hand defereutially, and he does the same with his father, Big, handsome girls, fsshionably clad, meet their father in the street, and taking his hand, kiss It. The family tie isvery strong among the people who have the right idea of home and family.