On the Mexican Highlands: With a Passing Glimpse of Cuba
On the Mexican Highlands: With a Passing Glimpse of Cuba
William Seymour Edwards
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As I sat in the park in the afternoon, several groups of the young and fashionable came up, and paus- ing, gazed intently at my novel footwear. My hat, a comfortable slouch of the trooper type, also seemed to them of wonderfully little cost — "Only five dollars for a hat I" "Ciertamente 1 El Sehor must have paid more than thatl" The American trousers, not fitting tightly to the leg, were also re- marked. It is complained, that the young men of wealthy Mexican families, who are now attending Cor...nell and Harvard and Yale, instead of going to old Spain or to France, return in these American clothes, and insist upon wearing these loose Amer- ican trousers to the scandal of conservative fashion. Among the ladies, however, the American hat has not yet conquered the mantilla, and for this I have been thankful. The graceful mantilla is so at- 12 177 On the Mexican Highlands tractive and sit3 so daintily about the black-braided brow of the seiiora and the senorita who pass you by 1 It is against the laws of Mexico for the relig- ious orders any longer to live within the Republic, but at Morelia there are said to be several of these orders existing clandestinely.
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