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Title: A diplomat's wife in Mexico : letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City, covering the dramatic period between October 8th, 1913, and the breaking off of diplomatic relations on April 23rd, 1914, together with an account of the occupation of Vera Cruz
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shaughnessy, Edith, 1870-1939
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Everywhere brother is killing brother, andas for the sisters, they are often lassoed and captured asif they were stampeding cattle. Educated people, whohave been prosperous all their lives, are now withoutfood or shelter, knowing that strangers eat at theirtables, sleep in their beds, and scatter their treasures.If only poor old Huerta could have begun in some otherway than by riding into the capital in a path of bloodspilled by himself and others, he would probably havebeen able, with recognition, to do as well as any one, andbetter than most. As it is, he is like a woman who hasbegun wrong. The neighbors wont let her start again,no matter how virtuously she lives. The bull-fight charity, organized to raise funds forthe Red Cross, is considered the hit of the season. Ithad been advertised as a humane fight, as the bullshorns were capped. However, the toreador was killed—amid immense excitement, pleasurable rather than other-wise. As I was coming home, about five this afternoon, 126
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THE FLOATING GARDENS OF XOCHIMILCO A DIPLOMATS WIFE IN MEXICO from a peaceful day at Xochimllco, I saw in every direc-tion immense clouds of dust. For a moment I thoughtthat a storm was rising, but it was only the dust raisedby the vehicles bringing spectators back from the bull-ring, half a kilometer beyond the Embassy. Havingtried, on two awful and useless occasions, to get thespirit of the game, I have put the whole question ofbull-fights out of my consciousness. Several people have just been here on their way home.Mr. Lefaivre thinks this unfortunate government mightpossibly get money from abroad if it could be placed inthe hands of a commission for spending and accounting,and would be willing to urge it on his government undersuch conditions. The idea of such a commission, forseveral reasons, has not been popular here. It would, ofcourse, be mixte (foreigners and Mexicans). It would re-flect on their cuUura (a Spanish word for personal dig-nity and urbanity), and on their bizarri

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