The Republican journal., 1904-07-07
oOpITIfS IN URUGUAY.
rrsTIvE SABBATH. NEwSPA-
ID ns OF A BURLESQUE REPUBLIC.

:t CORE Spondence of The Journal.1
,,,,rryIDEo, May 20, 1904. A wider
..sst can hardly be imagined than
t 'p, the quiet church-going Sun
,thome and the festive aspect of
a@ .oyleo on the Lords day. Here
.,,dy goes to church most religi-
INIT after mass in the morning
''- --.pers in the evening he considers
o. 3..,r done to Heaven and proceeds
.4r the blessings of this world
ss own fashion. The plazas are
,-d with smiling people prone
..e &. the music of military bands;
-.g. shops, saloons, ETC., are open
fs and largely patroniZed, and the
.prsp is in full blast, with its
....7 booths and other accessories.
-.aiav night the theatres contain
-., and most fashionable audi
... present the best perform
...- -lr week; and there are public
-.... mvate parties and gay social
mgs all over the country. The
# spanish America, as of
the countries of Europe in
f sabbath keeping, are very
.r rom our own, which are still
burdened by the prejudices
. uGritan ancestors, who fined a
al 1,A ,r,ho
.,.-. Kissing his wife on that stern
. vtl day, and construed the love
..aT to mean relentless persecution
~. aso held other opinions.
.t.t il few turns in the plaza most
.., Nontevidian world HES itself to
r1alo-an extensive pleasure garden
.rat three miles from the city, reach
= lg ,Hmway through the fashionable
--,5elfs suburb known as Paso del
VI no The prado, belonging to the
ru1,paity, is the park of the COM
MOP people, not so much for style and
..oe as those down town, but patron
fiji Nv some extent by the SWEETEST of
,7a u elegant carriages with llverled
s.meu and footmen, and on horse
.a with gorgeous saddles and silver
.-r,ps who include few moments
~ the course of their daily airing.
g1r little river dances through the
iaed with the trees of every
M ana at the entrance are planted
uUs of tall eucalyptus trees.
sna nd to end the lovely garden is
With rustic fountains, flower beds,
1s-1es, Statuary-but has never the
ssr SO familiar at home: Keep off the
s. 4 pavilion within the enclosure
specially appropriated by the Bas-
Who make up a large share of
N ideo's population and swarm out
iay to the trip the light fantistic
'-totne music of drums and tlageolets.
tsstic indeed are their national
which seem to consist mainly in
uug, to the slow, plaintive nation
,~- is also a French restaurant,
billiard room, German beer
ou- Yankee shooting galleries, no
Z 5i booths where the native cana is
and all manner of apparatus for
0u games, which the young and
dulge in while their elders loaf
upon benches under the trees
antilles bring their lunch bask-
If repaired to spend the entire day
amp in gypsy fashion. Notwith-
t.gg the number of cana stalls, we
rprlsed to see that there is no in
Aatlou, and everybody is harmlessly
s apparently as much at peace
five world to come, according to
& -hts, as with this life here below.
,n.g may be truly said of our
y -o'ng southern neighbors - that
erbody, men, women and children,
1-ua RELY of wine chicha, cana, or
--. locm of ''the rosy" and almost
7Toody CANDLES with persistency
Ia, H0ald astonish a Northern black
9-,ct nobody gets vulgarly drunk,
4' the gambling vice is not made
@cI- one, to be stealthily INDUCED in
s,adlng the law in darkened corners.
-ats and sinners, paupers and ladies
d ugt degree, alike take a hand at
a-earat, roulette, and other games of
lance as nndisguisedly as they take
'dIauner, quite as matter of course;
a- very much surprised would they be
NolNI some good missionary come
'oAg and intimate that there is wick
a'ess in the cards, and in the glass a
%tent that stingeth like an adder.
'Aty Lave never heard such ito them
A9ae doctrines in all their lives and
could not be induced to believe them.
lie aristocratic classes, of course,
1-lk only imported wines at table, and
4F custom that so largely obtains in
lt nlted States of serving coffee
VIII The soup and ice water all through
a barbarism unknown in Spanish
Alelica.
ana, pronounced can-yah), the ma
"laI leverage of Uruguay, is the fer
-tlted Juice of sugar cane, and sells at
|- late of cents the goblet. AS the
s@'rts are about twice the size of a
WlNan schooner" and tie stnff con-