| Show A CITY OF QUEETO JUMBLES The visitor finds many things to wanfer at in the City of Mexico The most antiquated custom and the most morJwrn improvements are curiously jumbled The correspondence of the government Is dictated to shorthand writers and transcribed upon typewriters typewrit-ers yet the postal service has remain ed unchanged for half a century When the mail arrives at the post office the names of the people to whom letters are addressed are written on a slip o paper and posted on a bulletin board A merchant or a banker goes every morning to examine this announcement an-nouncement and i he finds his name on the list he hands his card t the clerk at the delivery window and receives re-ceives what Is addressed to him No postage stamps are sold but those who have letters to post take them to the postofflce and pay the postage to the postmaster who sticks on the stamps Such a state of affairs exists in the capital o a nation that subsidizes steamship lines and railways and supports sup-ports schools where all the modern languages and sciences are taught and has a compulsory education law upon its statute books |
