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Identifier: guidetomexico00hida (find matches)
Title: Guide to Mexico
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Hidalgo, Cristóbal. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: San Francisco, The Whitaker & Ray co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e favored chil-dren of the United States ever enjoy. Come andsee them in the gloaming of a tropic eve that dieswithout a twilight, tripping light-heartedly fromshop to shop, bent on missions of love and duty.This is on your Christmas eve, their nochebueno, as it is called in Spanish. There are hasty calls and reunions of friendsand families, through all the early hours of thenight. The streets, the shops and the dwellingsare brightly illuminated and fantastically decor-ated. At length the weird midnight spreads a brood-ing, flapless wing over the mirthful scene; butthe merry revelers heed it not, as the deep-tonedbells that proclaim the phantom hour, that is sasolemn and still in other lands, knell the incep-tion of the feast. All the world is then sum-moned to the table to partake of the Christmasdinner the people of the United States eat at noonChristmas day. There is notliing solemn nor sadin all Mexico. The lights are not permitted toburn blue, as they arc said to burn at midnight
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100 GUIDE TO MEXICO. in other climes. The slave is free, the poor arerich, and earth is heaven for a little season. For an hour or more the tables hold fcastersspell hound, not only by exquisitely temptingdishes and delicately flavored wines, but by witch-ing conversation, for which the Spanish tongue isunsurpassed by other language of the earth. Sleep is not on the bill of fare. Little childrenare not drowsy. The festal dinner is but thebeginning of raptures of the night. From thetables there is a rush for the ball rooms. All islife and joy. The air is rife with perfume andresonant with divinest music. Eare evergreensand matchless flowers are everywhere. Mexican dances are slow and languid, but fullof majestic motion, and rapturous beyond anyother episode of life among young people of theEepublic, as the beau and the sweetheart arepaired in ever)^ set. At no other time is thereever close communion among young lovers, exceptin the blissful dance. They never go alone totheatre, nor chu

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