1892 
Guadalajara 
(Jalisco) 
June 
Peddlers 
Market 
1 was told of oases of women taking up these penitential ex¬ 
ercises so vigorously that the resulting mental and physical ex¬ 
haustion caused their death, and it frequently results in illness. 
Servants are required to attend some of these exercises in may 
cases, and it is at this time that every influence is brought to 
bear upon those who are thought to be in danger of forsaking their 
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church for the Protestant, 
The streets of Guadalajara are full of sidewalk peddlers of 
every conceivable thing,- matches, candies, cakes, fruits, ice¬ 
cream, strawberries, pulque, second-hand pistols, birds, and dozens 
of other things. 
Among the most curious of all is roasted pig skin. When a pig 
is killed, the hair is removed in the ordinary my and then it is 
skinned like other animals and the skin is washed and then baked or 
rather roasted until it is a large rough sheet of succulent crisp¬ 
ness. A string is tied about this and boy or man walks about the 
street shouting some unintelligible cry, and the common people buy 
of him. He outs off fragments according to the demand.of the customer 
until the Skin is used up. Every evening these peddlers are out with 
a new stock. 
The main market is a fine, well ventilated stone structure occu¬ 
pying an entire square, with the roof supported by arches raised in 
a large number of pillars. The stalls and aisles radiate from a 
small central railed circle where the flower dealers gather, and 
early in the morning the display of tropical fruits is gorgeous and 
bewildering. The market belongs to the oily and hucksters are 
charged by the front foot of their stalls. 
Almost everyone goes to market, and licensed boys with baskets 
are at hand to carry home the purchases for 3 cents. Like the 
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