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street porters who are found everywhere, these boys wear a large 
Guadalajara brass plate with their number. These numbers are issued, cm payment 
(Jalisco) 
of license tax, by the Jefe Politico. 
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June Occasionally a lady, usually some foreigner, takes a boy without 
a badge and frequently the boy and basket of supplies vanish to- 
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gather at some orowded place on the way home,- as I knew of one in¬ 
stance in particular and heard of others, 
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Three or four times weekly a military band plays on the Plasa de 
Ariaes,- the min plasa of the city, and electric lights, or brilliant 
moonlight on favorable nights, illumines a display of the youth of 
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the town. The young men from 15 to 22 or 23 are given to derby hats 
and huge canes with a crook at end of handle. Instead of emulating 
the effort to swallow the heads of their canes, as is the case with 
some of our fops, they hook the cane over the right shoulder and, 
grasping the stick by the middle, draw down on it as if for support 
with the right hand. This is supposed to be a particularly graceful 
maneuver* . : . . 
Seeing the relative sise of youth and canes, one cannot blame 
them very often for wishing to shoulder them. Dudes in Guadalajara 
are called "polios”,- chickensf 
The utmost decorum is preserved and the gentlemen and ladies 
keep strictly separated,- ladles going around outside of inner 
Ladies 
cirole from right to left, and gentlemen from left to right. Out¬ 
side of this, on the outer walk, a mixed crowd of men and women of 
the lower classes walk about. On the streets during the day the 
ladies and common women alike wear rebozos over their heads, but in 
the evening the ladies are usually distinguished by wearing hats with 
the rebozo thrown over their shoulders. 
At about 8 to 9 p.m., the plaza is deserted by a large part of 
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