The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-16

one of the she tourists.
 You bet she is," answered the he tourist. You don't see thinks Ike thal in the States. Wait and l vii get her
 There was nasty adjusting or the kodak, a pressing of the button, and the he tourist had her" to take bacK 10 the States and show as a specimen ol the strange things one sees Ill the lte- public of Mexico. Unfortunately the old Indian had no kodak, or she fnlsht also have begun q collection or DIG lures of freaks.
 It wasn't the same couple, but II was two other specimens of the same spe- cies, who, short time later III tue cathedral. wandered around, now ana then bending down and peerlns lito the faces of the kneeling Worshlppefs' Whether they thought the deVout ones were asleep and wanted to De sure about it, or whether they merely Wahl- ed to get some idea as to thelr laclal appearnce, is still unexplained.
 It is behavior such as this on the part of tourists that has led to the posting of a special notice in English at the entrances of the Puebla Cathedral, sug- gesting to this class that II they are not prepared to behave with ordinary reverence and decency in place OF worship they had better stay away
 What they do in the churches IS eN- celled by what they do in prlVate hous- es To walk into apatio. take shapshots of everything and everybody Ill slght' is a very small breach of politeness. In fact these he and she tourists seem 10 think that they are conferring q favor when they thus print private cltl- zens's face on the cartridge of their pie ture making machine. But sometimes they even go further than that. and man who lives in Tacubaya had an ex- perience the other day with batch or the most troublesome. He was sittlns in the patio of his residence with some friends and the members of his family. The outer gate was closed, but not locked. Suddenly it was pushed open and In marched the tourists. Before the family could realize what was III store for them they had been 'shot pS half dozen of the tourists, while the others were staring around, looking TOT something upon which to level their ln- struments.
 The owner of the house rose to his feet in mingled anazement and indlg- nation. Like all the members or ms family he speaks and understands Eng fish we'll But in his surprise ms knowledge of the language left him for the moment Before he could speak, one of the tourists pointed to one or the women of the party.
 Say, she's got fine hair, hasn't sheE sI wonder if it's all real."
 By this time the owner of the place he'd somewhat recovered, and, with what semblance of politeness he could muster, asked the intruders to leave, explaining that they were in private grounds.
 "Is that SOP" asked he-tourist II thought this was that big gambling house. et u
 There are few Americans who have lived in this country more than six months, but can tell many instances or similar gross rudeness on the part of their visiting countrymen and women. And some of the more experienced Americans so dread the tourist and fear being approached by specimens of the class that when they see one they begin the use of Spanish, and if approached in a conversational way wil deny all knowledge of English.
 The ignorance of the tourist Is as monumental as his rudeness. Some or them expressed great surprise recently when told that General Diaz did not preside at bull fights given in this city. | Each tourist has a special fad in the 1 execution of which he goes to the ex- treme of his rudeness. But all tourists have one fad in common. They think i that the efficient and hard working | Ambassador of the United States, the courteous consul general. and all their secretaries and the members Of their staffs, were sent here by the United States Government for the sole purpose of acting as free guides and sources of information for the itinerant American.
 They walk into the embassy and de- mand passes to the presidents private quarters or to anything else they may happen to wish to see, and feel them selves aggrieved if the ambassador does not stop all diplomatic business to give 1 it to them personally, and to also give l them a private note to the president. TheS seem to think that the consul gen. eral should leave the business of the American merchants to carry itself on while he does himself an honor by talk ing the visiting tourists on street car ride. They want the government to turn itself upside down for them, and then they want to take snapshot of 1t in the act Some of them seem to ob- ject because earthquakes revolutions and other interesting things are not given daily for their amusement, they being provided with safe quarters from which to view the sights.
 One of the impertinence of the mem- bers of large tourist parties is to imag- inc that their coming has been looked forward to and constitutes an event in the daily life of this city, whereas, as is well known, it passes unnoticed by the great majority of the inhabitants of the capital, unless their attention happens for half a second to be attracted by a lot of ill dressed and odd looking peo- pie walking about together. The people of this city know nothing about the comirg of tourists and care still less, if possible.
 This class of tourists is considerably nettled when on arriving here they mo- tice no particular signs of excitement over their coming, and the cosmopoli-
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