. The Brazilians and their country . A FULL-GROWN COFFEE PLANT SEEING RIO DE JANEIRO BY TRAMWAY 149 pillar. He seized me as a drowning man clutches at alife-saver, and when his breath came again he exclaimed,*Mon Dieu, what barbarity! In the language of yourcountrjTnen, nevaire again! It is hardly fair perhaps to place this incident overagainst the Latin American obsequiousness encounteredon Rio de Janeiros tramways (who knows what will hap-pen when the southern Capital has five million insteadof one million street-railway passengers!) One is in-clined to surmise, however, that the Brazilians,
. The Brazilians and their country . A FULL-GROWN COFFEE PLANT SEEING RIO DE JANEIRO BY TRAMWAY 149 pillar. He seized me as a drowning man clutches at alife-saver, and when his breath came again he exclaimed,*Mon Dieu, what barbarity! In the language of yourcountrjTnen, nevaire again! It is hardly fair perhaps to place this incident overagainst the Latin American obsequiousness encounteredon Rio de Janeiros tramways (who knows what will hap-pen when the southern Capital has five million insteadof one million street-railway passengers!) One is in-clined to surmise, however, that the Brazilians, with theirpenchant for chivalric decorum, would refrain from goingto their offices at all, rather than subject their neat per-sons to such ruffling and humiliating returns therefrom. As a matter of fact the tramways in this southern citywhich carry in their 1,200 cars upwards of 200,000,000passengers yearly, are among the agencies of which thepeople are justly proud. In spite of the 3,000 or moreautomobiles in the Federal Capital,
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