. The Spanish-American republics . SEA-BATH AT POCITOS. for a stall. The Teatro Solis, holding $2000 people, is exteriorlya very elegant and handsomely-proportioned edifice, and very com-modious inside, though poorly decorated. Like all South-Americantheatres, it has a cazuela (gallery) reserved for ladies, and occasion-ally the house is filled with all the rank and fashion of the town;generally, however, there are many vacant seats, and apparently noregular theatre-going public. On the nights when the opera isclosed there is no amusement whatever, not even a cafe concert, nordoes the military
. The Spanish-American republics . SEA-BATH AT POCITOS. for a stall. The Teatro Solis, holding $2000 people, is exteriorlya very elegant and handsomely-proportioned edifice, and very com-modious inside, though poorly decorated. Like all South-Americantheatres, it has a cazuela (gallery) reserved for ladies, and occasion-ally the house is filled with all the rank and fashion of the town;generally, however, there are many vacant seats, and apparently noregular theatre-going public. On the nights when the opera isclosed there is no amusement whatever, not even a cafe concert, nordoes the military band play on the Plaza Matriz during the winter 432 THE SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS. months. There is nothing to do but to promenade up and clown theCalle 18 de Julio and the Calle Sarandi, stand outside the UruguayClub to watch the ladies pass, look in at the shop windows, and go tobed at ten oclock, when the shutters are put up, and the silence ofthe streets is broken only by the late tram-cars, and by the hoarse. TEATKO SOLIS. voices of the ubiquitous and indefatigable sellers of lottery tickets,with their fallacious and insinuating cries: Ciucuenta mil pesos paramanana ! Cincuenta mil la suerte ! Tenemos el gordo ! Este es el btieno,eaballero! UnenteritoP (Fifty thousand dollars for to-morrow! Fiftythousand the prize! Weve got the big one! This is the right num-ber, sir! A nice, complete ticket!) The lottery is one of the first and last things that strike the vis-itor in Montevideo. It is impossible to escape. From early morninguntil late at night, every day in the year, boys of six and old men ofseventy wander about the streets crying tickets in all tones of are seven drawings a month, the grand prize being one time$50,000, at another $25,000, and at another $12,000. A complete tick-et costs $ (gold), and consists of five quintos, or fifths, whichare sold separately at $; and for each drawing 12,000 completetickets are issued, or, in other words, 60,00
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