Identifier: reviewofreviewsw06newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eighteen cents a day, arealways extra. A mat on the floor is generally ac-cepted as a good enough couch, but cot beds are sup-plied in the better houses. Everything is done on acash basis—the cook going to market for the dayssupplies and rendering her account at night. Littleor nothing is kept on hand; a few cents worth of this,that and the other being purchased every day. Instead of stoves, little grates are fixed in masonryof brick, over which, on charcoal fires kept bright byfanning, everything is cooked. Kitchen utensils arealmost entirely of earthen ware and cost but a trifle.The markets are in the morning great hives of chat-tering, expostulating, bargaining humanity—morebusiness being accomplished with twenty-five centsthan anywhere else in the world. There is no Chinesequestion in Mexico—John Chinaman would starve ifhe tried to compete with the peon. TRAITS AND MANNERS. This is the land of contracts—none sharper than inthe prices of commodities. Goods that have passed
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From photographs by Schlattman, Mexico.1. Mexican Rural Guard.3. Basket Seller. 5. Grinding Corn for Tortillas. 3. A Village Group. 4. Women at Fountain. SOME TYPES OF THE MEXICAN POPULATION. PRESIDENT DIAZ AND THE MEXICO OE TO-DAY. 087 the Custom House are often double or treble a normalprice, while native products are sold for a pittance. The venders of vegetables, fruits, etc., adver-tise their wares with cries i)eculiar to each article.For instance, at about seven oclock every nightthe tamale women may be heard utteiing theirwailing, penetrating cry:

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