On the Mexican highlands, with a passing glimpse of Cuba . hese are daily received in the city. Or, per-haps, you desire game, when a tray upon whichare spread ducks and snipe and plover, the headsand wings yet feathered, is presented to you. Ora platter of beefsteaks, chops and cutlets is heldbefore you. From these you select what you maywish. If you like, you may accompany the waiterwho hands your choice to the cook, and you maystand and see the fish or duck or chop done to aturn, as you shall approve, upon the fire beforeyour eyes. You are asked to take nothing forgranted, but having ascert
On the Mexican highlands, with a passing glimpse of Cuba . hese are daily received in the city. Or, per-haps, you desire game, when a tray upon whichare spread ducks and snipe and plover, the headsand wings yet feathered, is presented to you. Ora platter of beefsteaks, chops and cutlets is heldbefore you. From these you select what you maywish. If you like, you may accompany the waiterwho hands your choice to the cook, and you maystand and see the fish or duck or chop done to aturn, as you shall approve, upon the fire beforeyour eyes. You are asked to take nothing forgranted, but having ascertained to your own satis-faction that the food is fresh, you may verify Itspreparation, and eat it contentedly without mis-giving. In this autumn season, flocks of duckscome to spend their winters upon the lakes sur-rounding the city. At a cost of thirty cents, ourmoney, you may have a delicious broiled teal withfresh peas and lettuce, and as much fragrant cof-fee as you will drink. The food is cheap, whole-some and abundant. And what is time to a cook 66. PLEASED WITH MY CAMERA Vivid Characteristics of Mexican Life whose wages may be ten or fifteen centavos a day,although his skill be of the greatest! The city is full of fine big shops whose largewindows present lavish displays of sumptuous fab-rics. There is great wealth in Mexico. There isalso abject poverty. The income of the rich comesto them without toil from their vast estates, ofteninherited in direct descent from the Royal Grantsof Ferdinand and Isabella to the Conquestadoresof Cortez, when the fruitful lands of the con-quered Aztecs were parceled out among thehungry Spanish compaheros of the of these farms or haciendas, as they arecalled, contain as many as a million acres. Mexico is to all intents and purposes a freetrade country, and the fabrics and goods of Eu-rope mostly supply the needs and fancies of theMexicans. The dry goods stores are in the handsof the French, with here and there a Spaniardfrom
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