Show SPAIN FAR BEHIND NATIONS III beracy preva Is there to a most abaz ng extent of the people inhabiting spain only about 35 per cent can read and write another two and one half per cent of the population can read without being able to write but the remaining 62 per cent are ab solute illiterates in the south ot spain it Is impossible to get a ant who can read and write and many of the postmen are unable to tell to whom the letters they carry are addressed they bring a bun die of letters to i house and the owned looks through them and takes those which are or which he thinks are addressed to him the spanish postmen are not paid by the state the recipient of the letters have to remunerate them according to the amount of their correspondence and each letter costs the addressee at least one cent it is a boke among the easy going spaniards that he who treats the postmen best receives the most letters whether they are in tended tor him or not |