| Show when mien death lias ilas no terrors Ter rora A correspondent writing from mexico censures the people ot of that country tor for a tin Lin gular cause to the average mexican he says the idea of death has no terrors and lie dies as indifferently as he has lived in many villages the custom Is still extant ot of decorating dead children with tile the wings ot of geese abild tui tul keys piper paper crowns ribbons and flowers then marching them about the streets seated in a chair and burying them amid the noise of firecrackers and minstrels playing polkas and fandango es 11 Lookin gat at tae iho matter philosophically ought not the overage average american be praised instead of blamed for having no constant terror of death we do not admire the alie introduction of opera gouffe music at a burial of course but apart from that exhibition of peculiar taste aro are the mexicans CaUS not wiser and more consistent than we who weep an and dwail wail because our friends havo gone to heaven new neny york graphic |
