The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
IN OLD MADRID.
Not a Proper Place For . Rest Cure

Hut Full of Interest.
 From what we saw. and from what page of Spanish etiquette. writes an American girl in Outing. It ts prob l ably not correct, but I offer 1t as the pie pi1 may y nave S had different impres- sions.
 wear short skirt. a sailor. or Eng ling to have people stare at you. and sometimes call after you.
 If yoS have red hair, hair dye it. s,l or be never bow to a man unless he lifts his dress as an Englishman. an operatic tenor or a chorus singer from Car take a dog on a string. When you sit down at the table; or s, arise, aslways alive. You may jostle people without apology. but never speak to any one without saying your grace" be he n'ss M fTeua yeua saes or sssEa ao me the favor morrsowYs i3s s @ Would strike an Amerioan beliboy with dismay. but # is the lit
 Never tell a beggar to clear out. but say that you have left your purse at ans test yoq sen.y w that God will reward him, .whereat he will smile. thank you and depart, These same begRars. which spring of etiquette we could not fathom. Af- ter two or three days there were a few who begged only from me. two or
 Evidently we were understood to be the patrons of certain beggars who. out of a crowd of mendicants. were Would trS T"is take their doie with thanks, or, if we said "to-morrow," would sulilingly back away at once.
 The poorest people go bareheaded. beautifully dressed. A spanish lady ther her duenna or some relative is to mass. rarely to shop or walk.
 Those who drive wear Parisian hats. but no one wears hat to bull fight. always the mantilla; and na,,to to the gala year-on Good Friday-every woman. even the Queen. wears the mantilla as she walks to church. They told us that no carriage was driven on that
 fine Spanish train averages possibly twenty miles an hour-to allow one to waits. At every station the guards run up and down shouting the name of the town and the number of min
 At every station also the two mili- train descend and walk around the cars. looking to see that no robbera | are concealed. As there is at least | one stop, an hour these guards get l some exercise before the day Is over. | They say this custom was adopted to | drive away any brigands who might | be concealed fin or under the train, 1 and has been successful:
 Madrid carries no latchkey. The concierge holds. 1t by day. the street watchman by night Consequently the | by the sound of handclappfng. fol- lowed by the quick. heavy step of the l watchman In response to this medias- val summons.
 nounce against Madrid as a rest cure. | Someone has divided the inhabitants | into two classes-those who go to bed after a. m. and those who get up before {.
 It is true that the streets were nev- CT quiet The stOnecutters, who were mending the sidewalk, began chipping at daybreak. Next we heard the cleo tric cars, with their loud gongs, and the mule carts were clattering over By breakfast time the sound of the | hurdygurdy echoed in our ears. Street fakers shouted their wares and sing l ing beggars, with their weird yodel l roamed up and down all day. Just l before dinner the women who cry lot | tery tickets and evening papers took l tn cir stand at the corner, and their stentorian voices never stopped until after midnight.