Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-01-08 | Page 10 | Mexican Indians

MEXICAN INDIANS. The simple-minded patient, docile in. dian of Mexico is eminently peaceful. Houn'lful nature and perpetual summer combine to palliate his improvidence. He cannot see the necesst'v of laving up anything for a ralnv da' It rains half the days In Mexico, a.vhiw but that "tily makes the mangoes mow larger and i heaper If lie lias c.o tortillas t.vday. some of his nelghhois have, and they w ill gladlv share, for . on. lit ions may be reversed omorrow These Mexican Indians make the best and the poorest servants in the world. Their greates' charm from this standpoint stand-point is their perfe. t appreciation of their position. Always polite, never presuming, pre-suming, with hat hand. I is always "Mint servant ' and "wl'u our permission permis-sion " In the house'vold thev ask a half holiday once a fot'rlgh' wi'h never a word of complaint when working hours last from daylight to midnight The Mexican Indian does not want to Unlit. Al! he asks ' to be let aiotie. His politeness and RTectlonat nature are in-tvorn in-tvorn His love for children is partlciilar-!v partlciilar-!v marked. It is a conimoi sight to see a laborer m the with r.ut two pecs of white ,ofo, . othlng to his hack, or his name, stop a woman with a babv in her arms and holding the child's fact between tw-ith ht Tiauds deliver a resounding smack and chuck It under tha chin And - the same utn onsi lous and entirely unaffc. re,l manner will a young man 'ake his sombrero f-om his head and reverent' kls the hand of some am lent telatt .. m a 'uttered dress when he en.oun'ers he- in 'he , rowdcj thoroughfare thor-oughfare Modern- Mexico