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and stir of a constantly moving crowd of purchasers bearing baskets or 
Taoubaya sacks for purchases rise the ©alls of the venders* The interior of 
(Mexico) 
the market is divided into stalls and is more orderly while less pic¬ 
turesque* At same time the show of fruits etc. is an attractive one. 
In all the adjacent streets are great numbers of pulque shops 
-where men and women drink pulque all day long and at night the streets 
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are blocked by a teeming mass of the lower classes who become drunk 
upon this wine of the maguey as they call It in paraphrase. The outer 
walls of these shops are usually gaudily painted and ornamented and 
bear various fanciful names such as La Coronaoion de Baco, - La Re forma 
del Portia,- El Sueno de Xochitl,- Gabinete de Aseo,- El Xnvierno,- 
La Ilija d© las Leones,- El Arbol de Par also,- La Caret?* Roja, etc.,etc. 
Very often with gaudily colored symbolical painted figures. Within 
there is a wooden counter with shelves behind on which are drinking 
vessels seme of glass, clay, and gourds, and frequently the wall be¬ 
hind this bar has various brilliantly colored scenes painted thereon. 
Shops and stores of all kinds are usually known by some name, one of 
the most absurd being that borne by a meat shop where pork was sold. 
This bore the suggestive legend, over its front, of "La Trichina". 
Turning to the higher class of society, it is interesting to note 
the almost -universal adoption of foreign fashions. Government offi¬ 
cials and professional men wear silk hats and the derby is also in 
very general use* The old broad-rimmed sombrero, tightly fitting 
trousers with silver ornaments while attracting little attention are 
going out of use rapidly in town and are mainly worn by visitors from 
the country and often by coachmen of wealthy people who keep up this 
costume for effeet. 
The ladies are nearly all dressed in hats or bonnets and it is 
a 
unusual that the mantilla is in use except among elderly ladles who 
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