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in the proper spirit. And the proper spirit is to be 

 interested in everything and to have one's mind firmly 

 made up to ignore small discomforts. My woman 

 who goes camping in Mexico will need, beside her 

 short-skirted travelling suit, — which must be of very 

 light weight, — several light shirt-waists. Let me ad- 

 vise her not to let her enthusiastic husband or brother 

 (as the case may be) hurry on to camp without linger- 

 ing in several of the interesting Mexican cities long- 

 enough to get a glimpse of the picturesque Mexican 

 life. These cities are fascinatingly quaint and foreign, 

 with their beautiful churches, their lovely little parks, 

 jar dins and 'plazas, as they are called, and the inter- 

 esting markets, so characteristic of Mexico. In every 

 city there is to be found a wonderful flower-market, 

 where soft-voiced Mexican women sell you gorgeous 

 bouquets of roses, great golden narcissus, and fragrant 

 gardenias ; and a Thieves' Market, which is a junk- 

 shop on a gigantic scale ; stolen and second-hand 

 articles of every conceivable description are brought 

 here to be sold, and here congregate the most pictur- 

 esf[ue and typical of the city's inhabitants. 



For all this sight-seeino- one needs a few lio-ht sum- 

 mer gowns. They cannot be bought ready-made in 

 Mexico, and no one has time to parley with a dress- 

 maker in this land of manana. Neither can one swel- 

 ter in the warm travelling suit which was a necessity 

 on the steamer. " And," as says the immortal Duchess 



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