Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Mexico of the Twentieth Century, Vol. 2 of 2
The great event of the year is Saint John the Baptist's Day, when every man, woman and child bathes - in some cases perhaps for the first time in the preceding twelve months - the applicants being received and dismissed in batches, and controlled by the police or soldiery. Another notable day is the feast of San Marcos, observed on April 28rd, when the entire population gives itself up to merriment and gambling, the Mexican game being licensed for the one occasion, and serving to completely bankrupt the greater portion of the working population during the 10 days that it is legalised. Servants and clerks leave their employment in order to participate in this Mexican Monte Carlo, and the gambling saloons drive a continuous and apparently most prosperous trade. There is, however, no great amount of cheating, although numerous heated disputes lead to encounters which not infrequently end either in the hospital or the police station.
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