. Spanish life in town and country . heirlooms do nottake the form of priceless embroideries. In former days the receptions at the Palacewere known as besamaiios (to kiss hand). OnHoly Thursday the Royal Family and all theCourt visit seven churches on foot—at least, thatis the correct number, though sometimes notstrictly adhered to. As no vehicular traffic isallowed on that day or on Good Friday, thestreets where the royal procession pass are sweptand laid with fresh sand. The ladies are in galacostume, and drag their trains behind them, all no Spanish Life wearing the national mantilla. All M
. Spanish life in town and country . heirlooms do nottake the form of priceless embroideries. In former days the receptions at the Palacewere known as besamaiios (to kiss hand). OnHoly Thursday the Royal Family and all theCourt visit seven churches on foot—at least, thatis the correct number, though sometimes notstrictly adhered to. As no vehicular traffic isallowed on that day or on Good Friday, thestreets where the royal procession pass are sweptand laid with fresh sand. The ladies are in galacostume, and drag their trains behind them, all no Spanish Life wearing the national mantilla. All Madrid alsovisits its seven or less number of churches, pass-ing without obeisance before the high altars, onwhich there is no Host,—as the people will tellyou su Majestad is dead,—and after the funcion isover there is a general parade in the Puerta delSol and the Carrera de San Geronimo, to showoff the smart costumes of the ladies, while theofficers sit in chairs outside the Government officesand smoke, admiring the CHAPTER VII POPULAR AMUSEMENTS NOTHING strikes one so much in studyingthe popular customs and pleasures of Spainas the antiquity of them all. Constantly onefinds ones self back in prehistoric times, and todate only from the days when Spain was a Romanprovince is almost modernity. No one can travelthrough Spain, or spend any time there, withoutbecoming aware that, however many other formsof recreation there may be, two are universal andall-absorbing in their hold on the widely differingprovinces — dancing and the bull-ring. In theBasque Provinces, the national game of fielofa, slspecies of tennis, played without rackets, is stillkept up, and is jealously cultivated in the largertowns, such as Vitoria, San Sebastian, and Bil-bao. In Madrid at the present time it is playedin large courts built on purpose, and attractsmany strangers. To view it, however, as a na-tional sport, one should see it in some of the moun-tain villages, where it is still the g
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