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Plaza

derby

Dandies

*Dudes in Guadalajara are called "pollos", -chickeno! (See inside of front cover)

Ladies

one instance in particular & heard of others.

3 or 4 times weekly a military band plays on the Plaza des Armes - the main plaza of the city - and electric lights or brilliant moonlight on favorable nights [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] illumines a display of the youth of the town. The young men from 15 to 22 or 23 are given to Derby hats & huge canes with a crook at end of handle. Instead of emulating the effort to swallow the heads of their canes, as is the case with some of our fops, they hook the cane over the right shoulder & grasping the stick by the middle draw down on it as if for support with the right hand. This is supposed to be a particularly graceful maneuver.

Seeing the relative size of youth & canes one cannot blame them very often for wishing to shoulder them. The utmost decorum is preserved and the gentlemen & ladies keep strictly separated - ladies going around outside of inner circle from right to left, & gentlemen from left to right. Outside of this on