Page 4 Advertisements Column 1

Manawatu Herald, 26 July 1898, Page 4

;, LITTLE MEXICANS. Their Daily tile— Wlmt They Wear— Art, 1 1 Blusie and tho Family Mule. | In the cities of Mexico tho majority of tho children] aro dressed similarly to tho Children of Europeau oitios. In tho wilds, ! tho country, tho hidden placos of Mexico, /iilie children wear garbs that oto Indian, Igarbs that. are Spanish nnd garbs that nro ! quaint and ingenious combinations of tho • '%VIO. .-■-■-. ; Every Mexican child ia an artist. Tho ;jwee brown fingers of Mexican babies mold !tho ruddy Mexican mud into babies iTbrowncr than themsolvos, and Mexican '' TOUKG MEXICAN'" MEHCHAN'f S. ' i children of most tender years pinch nnd I pet and pat nnd poke and coax moist clay, wax nnd other materials into statuettes and tiny figures, which thoy sell in the i Mexican market places. i. Tho children of Mexico have- not overmany pots, but. thoy nil havo familiar ac- . i quaintanco with ono animal, tho mule, j ' Almost tho poorest Mexican family has its ; mule. Savo among tho rich., tho Jnrgcst family rarely has but ono such stood. Mexican familiea are not, as n rnlo, small, I and tho family mulo is perpetually called upon to carry burdons that aro enough to eour the disposition of n sweeter tempered Hj animal. White mules with black faces, H black mules with whito faces, and mules Hj of every mulish color or combination of H colors are alwnya on tho move in Mexico. I Yon will ccc them in tho city streets, and H thoy will sayo you from feeling loaely H when you tramp tho country byways. Tho H destination of a Mexican mule is, 10 to 1, . H church, tho mar-kct or homo. The eldest ■ boy leads the mule. Tho fathor pushes H tho mule discreetly. The mother, all the H littlo children and no mean part of the H family goods and chattels ride the mule. H His muleship, oven under such circumH stances, makes long journeys day after H day, but he does not do it enthusiastically. H Alusio is an instinct with tho children Hof Mexico. It isn't the blare of tho new j H day. It's tho glad matins of the birds ' H that waken the Mexican mitos. I-f those H Mexican babios bo half well born and ■ half well housed, they pay tho birds for ■ songs with songs. This i 3 the custom: ■ Whon day first breaka Into tho bedrooms ■ of a Mexican house — and eho breaka in ■ very early, partly because Mexico is where ■ Mexico is, and partly because tho low ; ■ houses havo an nbundance of windows — ■ when, for thoso two reasons, tho Kirn does ■ mako so early an entrance, the head of the ■ houso gallantly welcomes it by leaping ■ out of bed. If he is very old or very ■ feeblo, lioat least; manages to lift himself ■ from hid pillow, and ho begins to slug a ■ eong, ;; hymn of morning praise. If a jB priest bo staying in the house, then that H| priest starts tho vocal symphony, and the ■ father, mother and nil tho peoplo of the ■ homestead down to the least of tho sorvB ants tnL.o it up and join in the song of B Bimplo welcomo to tho morning, but B sweetest of nil tho voices heard is that of |B the Mexican baby. B Tho poorer children of tho cities of Mcx6pond a considerable part of their days tho market places— in tho bazaars. pi'ddlo the littlo clny figures and j^Jwax creatures that their dof b fingers have |B shaped and tho svuishino in which they to sit has baked, they hawk llowora i j^Hond barter magniCcunt fruits for copper i H| coins, they rush aftor you and catch you j jßby tho skirt and hurl you back to their booths. As a rulo, thoy know ono sentence, "Give me a penny. *' j^R A Letter by Queen Victoria. yU It vro>s picked up in one of the npnrfcof Kensington palace by Ann Jones, a servant in the establishment of Ducliesa of Kent, tlie queen's mother. was given by Ann Jones to her father, IB •who in turn gave it to his master, a disIB |9 K^iy/.itu^iirfuziri/rna. IB fe <Jc*>n<i/nx644oU&i^M H "3l J K C! o"7t> e/Cux/r ~6j/rpv>w6rric>vTTYnia.\ aj IB % fQtoruz. §? WRITTEN WHEN NINE TEARS OLD. j^Blinguished antiquary, and on the death of latter it came into the hands of anEnglish gentleman, its present The queen, who is now nearly 76 years was only 9 years old whon this letter written. Her grandmother was 71. It j^Ba doubtful if all tho young folks who this column could write as well at 9 of age. You will notice that thore ia mistake in spelling — besides "affeo- " which is just a littlo shaky — the princess having come to grief over and that, too, after she had safegot over "congratulate." Molly and the Basket. Molly: "I've mode up my mind, And when my nice eggs I havo sold buy our woe Jacky some cocks, some sockt To wear when he cries with the cold. th 6 basket: "I'm really inclined To tip the eggs on to the ground. |^HBhe carries mo such a queer way, queer way, w^M My head and my handle ko round; My head and my handle go -round. " ! the eggs to each other: "Oh, dear; ; |^H_ We're slipping and sliding- away. : Ht Molly keeps thinking like this, like thii, ' We'll not get to market- today ; ' We'll not get to market today*"