Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1902-06-12

Tor Two or IDfee nOuIn 10 NloiO tnc
cafe. Often whole families may be
found together enjoying their coffee
or beer, gossiplng or reading the latest
journal. Nor will one go from cafe to
cafe, but always TO the same one day
after day. Itisa large improvement
on the saloon. There is another Gus
tom which strikes the American Wis
itor as odd. One does not take his
coffee where he eats his dinner. You
dine in restaurant and instead Of
drinking your coffee there you go a
half mile away to a cafe aud take a cup
and smoke a cigar
And such cigars. The favorite is
the Virginia. 1t is an unexpected
pleasure to find such familiar word
used by Europeans. Everybody in
Austria-Hungary smokes Virginias,
so-called because they were first made
from Virginia tobacco The Virginia
is a cigar about the size of a half
grown telegraph pole aud as strong as
a yoke OF oxen. When Viennese
does not smoke Virginia he smokes
a pipe. The Vienncse pipe is fear
fully and wonderfully made. 1t is
principally stem. 1t is probably a
half mile from the bowl Of the pipe to
he mouth of the smoker. BY the
time the smoke makes the journey 1t
is not in a condition TO be dangerous.
The honor system is practieed In
Austrian restaurants and coffee
houses. You order what you please,
nobody keeps any record. When you
have finished your meal you ask for
your bill. Around comes the waiter
with a little dab Of paper and a
stumpy lead pencil and asks you what
you had to eat or drink. You pay
only for what you remember You
are likely to remember what you eat
In a Hungarian restaurant. But
everything must be paid for, even the
bread. Each roll is charged for, The
best bread is shaped like small foot
ball. 1t costs about two cents.
Winerwurst was invented in Vienna.
1t is at its best there. The Vlennese
call 1t "vurst' and eat it on all possi-
BILE occasions. Every dog in Vienna
wears muzzle and when he goes on
the street must be led with a cord.
WOMEN, THEIR WORK AND WAYS.
Vienna women claim to be the best
dressed In the world, Paris and Col
umbla not excepted. There is some
Justification for their claim. They
are stylish set. Some women need
good clothes to make them presenta-
Bile. The Vienna women are in this
class. In early youth they are quite
pretty. AS they approach eighteen or
twenty years Of age they grow pudgy
and at thirty look not unlike wad-
ding bench-dog The bench-dog, you
know, is fat creature which has the
appearance Of just having crawled out
from under the bed without having
had time to straighten up.
The aristocratlc women of Austria
Hungary are works Of art; the humb-
Ter women are beasts Of burden. A
woman hitched up with dog, the
two complacently drawing a cart, is q
frequent sight on the streets. Women
work in the fields all over Europe.
Tobacco is a government monopoly
and the tobacco shops are all con-
Quoted by women. There are women
ushers at the theatres in Budapest.
Which suggests
THE HUNGARIAN IDEA OF CINCINNATI
A native Hungarian, DR.. Scheim'
mer by name, has written an opera,
the scene Of which is located in Gin
cinnatti. The opera is not wholly
bad. There is some fair singing. The
authors conception Of Cincinnati
which the actors pronounce Chin-chin.
mathis most amusing. Forty Gin
cinnati milllonaires figure in the
opera. All make love to one beautiful
maiden who wears pink shoes and q
few other things. The millionaires
all visit her at the same time and
prefer their suit. Each wears cos
tune suggestive Of the Bowery and
sings bis love in nasal key like the
dull saw-stralns of the steam calliopt
in circus procession. The heroine
rejects them all, however, and bestows
her affections upon a penniless hote
porter. The last act, which is Tho
worst Of the three, pictures a scene ii
Barnum's Hotel, Cincinnati, where
the chambermaids give a great party
to their friends in the hotel dining
room after strike has compelled the
hotel proprietor to grant them the
privilege. According TO DR.. Schelm-
mer's idea everyone in Cincinnati Is
either a millionaire or a hotS
porter or chambermaid. The million
aires all wear red vests to evening
receptions and carry bouquets th'
size of bushel basket. The opera
is having a great run ia Budapest
The leading performers are given a
tremendous ovation each night.