Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-08-15
THERE ARE FEW THERE, But
THEY STICK CLOSER TO
GErHER THAN BROTHERS
QUEER LAWS FOR SAB
BATE HAVE 10
TRAVEL In sRPA-
RATE SLEEPER.
No Street Cara Are Run Before !
P. n. Sundays and You Can
hot AK Friends to Dinner
If You Take a Dip in the
Ocean It's Behind q Fence

Ii Is full ct ~"funnyisms" that keep
him continually contrasting 1t TO
Gods country and smiling discreetiy
70 himself. For these Australians are
sensitive as their OWN sensitive plant
and the foreign smile at their expense
doesn't please them.
Probably the American has read q
great deal about Australia in his iu-
venile days, as the home Or the bush
ranger, whose deeds kept him shiver-
ingly awake nights and inspired him
with q desire to 10 and do likewise.
And In his later years he has doubt
| less gathered the impression from
various OF the public prints, some OF
the locent magazines .among them,
that Australia is not only up-to-date,
but that she really marches q good bit
ahead OF the notions holding aloft
flaming beacons, to light the Others
down the way OF progress she has
trod.
Neither the bushrangers o the po-
lltical and economic conditions come
mp to his expectations.
AMERICANS CLANNIsH IN AUSTRALIA
Americans In Australia are more
clannish than In any country under
the sun. There are a fair number Of
them scattered over the big island.
And In very self-defense they hail a
newcomer with open arms II he be
only an expert mixer Of drinks.
John Bray, the American Consul
General here in Melbourne, who looks
after All American matters In Aus
tralih, lives at Menzie's Hotel, which,
incidentally, the Australians T con-
| WINGED is far finer than the SC. Regis.
Really 1t would do for a small side
tracked town In an upstate county in
New York State. And at Menzie's he
gathers the choice spirits Of one
American colony about him like
children, and they have some ade-
isuate and satisfying sessions.
Bray is a good American and always
! will be, and his tall, slender figure,
topped with q silk hat and groomed
with the smartness which only one
word describes and that word, "Amer-
can" lisa delight TO meet, striding up
Collins street about s In the after
noon.
Ten to one he's headed for Mrs.
Craig's little "hotel," which we would
call q barroom, and three Jones Of the
Singer sewing machine will be found
IL he's in town and perhaps Hart
pence Of the Aeolian company OF New
York. Hartpence has the honor OF
having introduced the Martini cock
tail into Australia.
Jones, OF the Singer people, has been
here q long time and he spends most
Of his time on a splendid stock farm,
or Station az they call them here,
over In New South Wales, raising some
OF the best horses that are seer In
Australia.
They bsye some laws which are
wonders. One Of them prohibits the
opening Of any cafe on Sunday before
II O'Clock In the morning and the I'M
wary American who may not know
this finds himself suddenly high and
dry without a thing to eat till IL. So
he soon learns, II he's in lodgings, to
sleep till IL and then forage forth.
Another nice thing that contrib
utes to the hilarity Of the Sundays
here and the gayety OF nations gen.
orally, is that there are nc street cars
running till after 2 O'Clock on Sun
days. All the steam roads bring
thousands OF people into the city, but
they have to walk once they are In
side the city limits.
And II you buy bakers cakes and
pies to be taken away from the prem
ises, you may only buy them between
and 3, Sunday afternoons. And
you may not invite friends to dinner
with you in Sydney, which is in New
South Wiles and under different
Jurisdiction, II you are living In a
hotel. Because in some mysterious
way, which is not at all clear, you
are breaking the Sunday law.
IL you travel with your wife from
one big city to another at night and
take a sleeper, you will find that the
men will be herded In one end OF the
sleeping car and the women In the
other. That is the idea Of propriety
here. Also men and women are not
allowed to battle In the ocean TO-
gether.
The ocean baths are deprived OF
most Of their pleasure by the neces-
sity Of staying behind tall fences
which must be built and maintained
to keep out the sharks. For they
come right up TO the beaches here
and while you are bathing they poke
their noses against the stats and look
longingly at you.
There's actually a shark over In
New Zealand who is protected by law.
He pilots every ship in and out Of the
harbor which he calls home. So the
colony has passed a law making 1t a
q misdemeanor TO modest him in any
way.
John w. Ellis, Jr., returned Friday