The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-25
WINTER IN MEXICO.

The old prejudice, inherited from the
 early Spanish settlers here. regarding ] artificial heat in houses will hardly l survive a few more winters such as the i Guanajuato Weather-prophet has given
 us, Last summer he was lugubriously chanting of very crude winter and
 we have been having it. The new
 modern houses here often have fire | places, and dealers report good de-
 mand for petroleuma stoves, and even
 the farnorthern air-tight stove of sheet
 iron has found purchasers among the 1 wise and prudent. Most of our houses
 during cold snap are notable for a temperature more proper to barns and stables than to the abodes of human beings. Chilled people go about with chapped hands and colds in the head and are depressed of angrily scornful of the climate, according to temperament l Hardy tourists, accustomed to some thing worse, tell us that this is most eXhilarating weather and wonder at our tenderness" It is most unkind of them to taunt us with our thin blood" and susceptibility to a drop to the
  mometer, but they seem to think that they can make us warmer by a mental science suggestion that we are warmer than we know we are.
 It is true that no snow blanket has fallen upon the city as recently upon Madrid, and that we enjoy tempera- ture higher than that of Florence or Rome, where misguided Britons go to enjoy sunny winter climate" The Mexican sun is truly tropical in it's n- tensity from eleven in the forenoon till three in the afternoon, but then the chill begins and overcoats and wraps become popular and women of the com- fortable class put on furs.
 The thick walls in old-fashioned | houses grow cold and hold their chill | till indoors becomes marvelously like l tomb and there is positive discomfort l Fortunate is the family that has a sun ny house, or even one or two rooms | which receive the suns rays in the | Luckily the Mexican table | land winter s of brief duration, and l usually by the middle of February ! comes the imitation of spring and bal my airs. March, true to it's malignant reputation, is windy and sends the dust everywhere, but it is respectfully warm most of the day, It is safe to predict that the time is not far distant when sensible system of indoor heating will ! come in vogue, Out of doors a person we'll wrapped up enjoys the cool air and inds exercise delight full It is the house pr office that requires heating.
 The climate hereabouts must have changed, for history tells us that Her ! man Cortes had a sugar plantation at Coyoacan, and old people say hat since he surrounding lakes were drained, or greatly lowered, there has been d grad lal increase in winter cold. Some at tribute the colder winterAto the felling If the forests, and probably they are tight. Towns and cities of from four Q five thousand feet elevation enjoy a pleasant winter climate, and they are to oe congratulated. But there come days in the tropics when the weather is chilly, and there is much dis omfort among the people who find even | Fahrenheit temperature of sixty five degrees to be "un frio intenso." The raveler from the north laughs at the hivering native; the winter to him is uite comfortable, in fact he contrasts with his hyperborean cline and 1inks himself lucky to be here Every hing is relative, and while the tourist Jaxes enthusiastic we put on topcoats nd wraps, and old-fashioned natives on their voluminous Spanish cloaks. l nd chorus of lamentation goes up. md every winter it is pretty much the ame.-Mexican Herald.