Show IN guadalajara f caw 1 14 ij 1 va vt skin peddler in guadalajara prepared bythe by the national society washington D 0 service guadalajara UADA LAJARA venerable city guadalajara of Mexico cos 8 west Is one of medicos cos tourist leccas sleepers run from los angeles through h guadalajara rails also link the city with the sea nt at manzanal lo 10 still another system ties it with mexico city with the gulf of mexico and the texas border these railways with the nations steadily growing net of motor highways make guadalajara an active distribution center here cheap electric power ample labor and abundant raw materials stimulate various industries these include spinning and knitting mills candy and cracker works and shops famous for their beautiful tiles and mosaics the arcades that shade the sidewalks before stores facing a plaza shelter many street venders benders ven ders A hat peddler walks majestically along with 15 or 0 20 0 hats for sale stacked on his own head bead one atop the other like a pagoda country peons geons usually wear baggy white drawers but custom now decrees that this badge of rural servitude shall not be worn in guadalajara streets so at the edge of the city pants shops are open wh where ere trousers may be rented just check your drawers there and rent a pair of pants as impecunious american students may rent evening clothes for a party 1 changing sartorial standards however are destroying this simple industry indians arrive in the city with baskets of assorted fruits guavas glavas gourds geurds tiny lemons cactus pears and mangoes manghes man goes on the pavement they arrange little piles one kind of fruit here another there then they squat down silently awaiting buyers if you want fruit buy it but dont ask questions toys candles candies soft drinks postcards postcard so newspapers pottery medallions of the saints small melons white on one side like a fishs fichs belly every everything thing from mule gear and old tools to carved wood sticks ending in ornate filigree balls for stirring chocolate are spread out tor for sale on the sidewalk good merchandise in the stores inside the large stores of course Is modern merchandise some american women wise in local ways say that it if the stores dont carry the particular hat or gown they wish clever native women soon make them copying it if need be from no more than a picture from an american fashion journal most lingerie dress goods millinery soaps perfume ie and jewelry are sold by french berh merchants ants machinery hardware and such heavy goods are usually handled bandied by germans few americans are found in retail trade they with the british are more interested in mines ranches power plants railways or banks if you bu buy y any sizable article in a store the merc merchant bant whistles up a street porter to carry it home for or you persons of position would lose caste carrying a big parcel through the streets porters even carry big bags bag s of silver coin to anaf and from rom the banks and for some reason are seldom molested As you fou walk the streets of guadalajara at easter time you may see gee it a hat and morning dummy man in top uniform or merely generals coat in a from a telephone wire in r rags gs hanging from a suddenly the effigy ex explodes small bomb hidden within 8 and nd bursts into flame then the street crowd laughs and yells and ma maybe abe even which Is supposed at the effigy shoots burning him in effigy judas to represent this time Is a mexican practice at sometimes Ju judas daso Is stuffed with bananas which fall out when or candy street urchins scra scramble m and be blows upp up for the street mans bread here dead buy your read arol around ind all sign may a bakers me mes that time some at day souls ti of departed leans teucro dine with their families return to relatives dining table becomes an the are served in foods food and some altar skulls skull candy shapes such its as strange with cherries tor for eyes b big g and little made of chocolate and d leg bones r ribs lbs an in the form of coffins baked or many cakes churches in mexico were built on sits sites of ancient aztec temples the heads of whose idols were cut off by Z zealous spaniards in some churches fragments of heathen idols are built in ini i to the walls after the conquest spain built literally thousands of mexican churches they dominate guadalajara devotion of the peons geons horses and rebels were housed in some of these churches with priests and nuns deported during the lions but the faithful carried on pious peons geons came tor for miles on their knees to the churches old women shouting the chants and litanies or counting their beads crawled to the altars on stiff old knees girls knelt with crowns of thorns on their brows and small boys clutched at the cruet I fixes from guadalajara out to the suburban church ot zapopan za Is but a short trip by tr tramcar amear but during an august feast peons geons hobble out to it on their knees taking all day when prayers are over they stage a costume play depleting depicting the spanish conquest of jalisco then indian players dress and act the parts of spanish knights and and the local indian characters of that conflict in recent years education has been taken away from the church and the new generation tends to abandon these mimetic dances and dramatic rituals the chief edifice in guadalajara Is the cathedral ua its twin towers riso over the city visible for miles on feast days long strings of lights illuminate allu the towers and at easter the bishop washes the feet of twelve old men chosen at random from street crowds rushing to aid the king of spain in the peninsular war went many men of guadalajara legend says money was sent too raised by melting gold and silver plate and candlesticks from the the cathedral in gratitude the king gave this church murillos Mu great painting the assumption of the virgin still hanging in the cathedral though many attempts have been made to buy or purloin it bullfighting bull fighting losea popularity the bull ring Is here of course but such sports as boxing football ands and baseball have robbed it of old time popi POP i ul arity despite its continuous appeal to the peon who glories in its cruel 0 gory ory combats and survival of a few other bullfighting bull fighting as a busl busi i i ness Is on the decline I 1 I 1 bulls from spa spain in tire are still sent to mexico su city where tourists help support i the are arena na and some fighting an l imala are still raised on the west coast ranches for guadalajara one of t these hese i Is s the old rancho bancho san jose de conde in n Nav arlt aritt which dates from 1550 it Is one of americas oldest ranches its ita output of small black savage bulls went on for generations to perpetu ate the fighting instinct the rule on this ranch was kill every bull calf that does not seem to hate men it such a plan insures a bull ferocious as any wild animal one ode young bull on this ranch chased a vaquero up a tree andl and kept him treed till he nearly died of thirst when cortez conquered montezuma and founded new spain he be had with him one don nuno de guzman who soon rose to power and gr grew ew jealous of his chief eager to gain more hon bon ors and riches for himself de guzman in 1529 quit the aztec capital with picked spanish troops and many TI indian allies to explore farther west and regions the unknown n north in their travels de guzman and his lieutenant cristobal de onate came upon a huge indian stronghold F fighting ensued and nearby the q spaniards pan lards built their campt camp a cluster of huts buts though moved about neighboring sites a later to various laid out about 1530 it was tow town u was named for de guzmana Guz mans home town in spain Guadal guadalajara ajai a from the moorish wad al hajarah meaning river of rocks from the king ot of spain the new town got its coat of arms in 1539 so it was really a white settlement the E english century 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