A Trip Through Mexico

INTERESTING PAPER BY MRS. W. H. WAITE

Read at the Meeting of the Ladies’ Union Describing a Recent Visit to That Country

Mrs. W. H. Waite read a most interesting paper on “A Trip Through Mexico” at the meeting of the Ladies’ Union Wednesday afternoon. The paper was carefully prepared and well written and held the closest interest of the hearers throughout.

Mrs. Waite began her paper with a resume of the history of Mexico, of the Toltees, Aztecs, down to the present people, of the entrance of Cortez, of his cruel rule, and compared the rule of Cortez with that of President Diaz of the present republic. 

She told most clearly of the different revolutions and of the following of one ruler after the other as though they were playing tag.

Mrs. Waite described her recent trip to this interesting country. She told of the bright colors which everywhere prevail, even the grass being of the most vivid green. She said that the better classes of Mexicans were rapidly learning English and prophesied that within a short time English would almost usurp the place of Spanish as the national language. The churches are magnificent and are filled with beautiful gold and silver plates, candelabra, etc., which have been given by the pious Catholics.

The Mexican people have no faint idea of the fitness of things, and people among the wealthier classes often rent their lower rooms to a shop-keeper, while their rooms above are beautiful almost beyond the faintest imagination of the Americans.

The pawn shops and junk shops are the emcca for the Americans who wish to pick up curios as mementoes of their trips. Here among great heaps of conglomerate things one can often find articles of beauty and value. Massive mahogany furniture and beautiful jewelry are often found, which have once belong to great families who are now impoverished. 

The entire paper was filled with incidents and legends of the Mexicans which proved most interesting.