The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-04
PAGE SEVEN

and onions. His aunt win be baking
the tortillas. The tortilla 10 the Nexi. !.
can staff of life; 1t. is used as spoon
and napkin Also, and it does simplify
housekeeping to be able to eat your
spoon and napkin.
After eating. Leonor can take his
we'll earned siesta, il his mother does
not want water drawn. His anxious
eyed. hard worked mother. as rule.
secures submission. though by dint OF
hard scolding. Dona Juana is q little
brown woman, rot over thirty. and
looking like an old woman only for
her milk white teeth and heavy black
braids, She will tell you she has
only five boys living. she had ten-an
boys. The other five had died OF
their stonachs" II is necessary they
there are many mouths to feed. I
never asked where the father was.
1t does not do TO be too inauisitive in
Mexico. 1t is conservative to say that
not two out OF five Mexican women OF
the lower class have aid from the IA
Their in rearing their children. All
bring home their weekly wages ex-
cept Pope: he Is sixteen. and. being a
man, has cut himself off from petit
coat government. 1t is a pity. too.
for his daily wages are princely.
amounting to is cents. American mon
ey. 1t is the sum of his brothers
earnings. for little Migual who screens
the corn all day at the corner grocery.
receives but three cents.
A Heaven Of cockfiehts
Sunday is day of amazing possi-
bilities. Sometimes Leonor can set
something to do at the hull ring to
gain admittance-wait on the lordly
bull fighters or carry water to the
horses, although not much attention
Is paid to the poor old horses destined
to be gored by the tortured bulls. II
Leonor manages to get seat for
the fight his cup of Joy Is full He
screams himself hoarse applauding
the bull or the matadoi and II. after
the fight is over and the band Ia play
ing the last gay DANA, he finds 4 good
| uncle in the crowd swarming out. to
give him a glass Of pulQue or a cigar
ito, made with corn husk wrapper.
the cup is running over. He goes home
a hero and refights the fight and
shows his brothers how 1t was done
and how it should have been done.
II nothing else offers he ends his
! Sunday at the plaza, walking round
and round the big garden with the
bronze statues and yellow roses, keep
| ing strictly to the outside walk where
the poems are only allowed to walk.
Leonor loves music and he likes
crowds to push about In during fiesta
times. He listens to the orchestra.
for there Ia always one playing some
where in a Mexican town. One way
music. When people have parties
they generally leave their windows OPP
en-, and If the room is on the ground
floor he has but the iron bars be-
tween him and the festivities. and he
is willing to stand half the night, his
face pressed to the bars listening to
the music and watching the dancing
Leonor can not read nor write and
he does not do too much thinking. or
else he has a wonderful amount Of re-
serve. l asked him once where he
thought he was going when he died.
He answered. In the ground" But. =
l said, you don't stay there, do your"
He looked as solemn and a. stupid
as little burro and explained that IL
he had some one to pray him out he
would go to inferno.
| tn l. ,I.nk LII
idea of heaven was. 1t was beauti-
full place. prettier than the plaza when
decked with tissue flags for Septem-
Der 16; no cold or hunger there; all
the pork stews and dulces you could
eat. all the pulque you could drink. all
the cigarros you could smoke, no work
nothing to do but go to bull fights
and cock fights and play pelota, and
always there was playing a band a.
good as the Banda de Zepalores.