Show THE MILKMAN IN BRAZIL TakeRs Cow to the Customer Tricks in His Trade There arctwo ways In which you may buy milk In Brazil said the man who bid Just returned The milk Isnt first rate and mlllc and cream mll are scarce but there Is originality In one way of sell i ing It Sometimes milk Is delivered from house to house In glass bottles carried in wire baskets something after the fashion of tho milkman here bul there the difference differ-ence begins The cart used In Brazil Is a threewheel pushcart always painted Homo dark dull color The bottles arc typically Brazilian they are long small necked dark green secondhand wine bottles which nave advantage of their own for the merchant The customer cannot see the water which he knows Is In tho milk and tho dark color ulmpllllcs the task of washing which is tlmplles point to the native S But the other way of delivering milk 11 simonpure Brazilian and It itj I n sort of a case of the mountain coming to Ma hornet The milk merchant leads his cow around to his customers bv n halter Tied to the cows tail la 1 a smaller halter and at the other end of that rope Is a small muzzle halter which la fastened around the head of a calf The Brazilian milkman milk-man believes that the cow will not give milk If unaccompanied by her calf The merchant thus leading his merchandise mer-chandise and source of supply walks barefooted over tIle uneven atono pavements pave-ments from customer to customer In his had ho carries an ordinarywised drink ing glass and a tin onepint measuring cup these he ingeniously nips onfc against tho other and thin Is his gong to notify onj tonott his customers of hlsuppronchA cus tomer reached the merchant down on ohs knoo and proceeds to oxccuto tho order while the customer walla The stranger sees no chance for dilu ting the milk In this system by which tIll consumer sees with his own oyen tho goods produced But tho natives and they al agree on this point Insist that tho milk merchant linn undor his coat rubber bottle tilled with water and with a rubber tube attachment which cnablcn him to Inject the water Into tile measure along with tho milk Anothur way LIla artistic milk merchant has for milking ma cuutomor is by producing as much foam as possible This Is done by hold ing tho glass as far as practicable from the sourcf of supply during tho process of Illllng tho incasuro wIn the beat holcln and restaurants on tho cantcrn coast of Brazil L did not onco tco crcum used or offered and milk us a beverage WUB very seldom 9 llfnt I lIt not once r ee It mentioned on a bill of faro Milk nuch mcntoned brings about IS cents a juart United States mono Ilono and n better supply even at this price would increase the demand materially New York Sun tcnum < mnterluly |