Mexico, the wonderland of the South . THE IVIEXICAN NATIONAL Copyright by The Detroit Photo Co. PYRAMID OF THE MOON.(See page 107.) THE SIGHTS OF THE CAPITAL 91 President of Mexico, in the presence of an immense gather-ing. Just above the Liberty Bell is a clock which was exiledfrom the church of a small Spanish town because it wassupposed to be bewitched, having struck the hours out oforder. Although the National Palace is the Presidentsofficial residence, he does not live there, but in a compara-tively small house in the Cadena, a thoroughfare runningoff the Plaza, whence he comes,
Mexico, the wonderland of the South . THE IVIEXICAN NATIONAL Copyright by The Detroit Photo Co. PYRAMID OF THE MOON.(See page 107.) THE SIGHTS OF THE CAPITAL 91 President of Mexico, in the presence of an immense gather-ing. Just above the Liberty Bell is a clock which was exiledfrom the church of a small Spanish town because it wassupposed to be bewitched, having struck the hours out oforder. Although the National Palace is the Presidentsofficial residence, he does not live there, but in a compara-tively small house in the Cadena, a thoroughfare runningoff the Plaza, whence he comes, often on horseback, andalways without any escort, to his daily work. The National Museum has a wing of the Palace devotedto it. Here there is a splendid collection of Mexican antiq-uities, idols from temples, ornaments from palaces, jewels,arms, shields and utensils of the Toltecs and Aztecs, withsome few of the Aztec picture-writings, which were savedfrom the bigotry of the monks. There are also portraitsof the great characters in Mexicos history since the Con-que
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