Identifier: mexicowonderland1909cars (find matches)
Title: Mexico, the wonderland of the South
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Carson, William English, 1870-
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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or have a very queer appearance,looking exactly like little men and women. Boys dressjust like their fathers, having the same linen suits, bigstraw sombreros and red sarapes; girls wear the same longdresses and blue rebosas as their mothers. At first sight, the Mexican Indians seemed to me to bea very melancholy race, and this first impression was con-firmed by what I afterwards saw of them. As we drovethrough the streets of Orizaba, filled with the passing throngsof natives, moving silently, barefooted or shod with noise-less sandals, there was rarely the sound of laughter; norwas there any roughness or horseplay such as one wouldhave noticed in an American street filled with Saturday-night shoppers. Strings of children glided along silentlyafter their parents, wonderfully subdued and grave, rarelyexchanging a word. The shops were, of course, decorated with Spanish sign-boards, the fondas (grocers) and dulcerias (confectioners)being the most noticeable. Here and there, however, there
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