A DIPLOMAT'S
WIFE IN MEXICO
England will be delighted to follow any policy from Washington as long as it does not interfere with what the British Foreign Office has decided to do. clearly says that
They simply can
lives
and
can't understand our not protecting Ameriinterests. Their policy here is purely com-
come to be political. Great excitement is predicted for Sunday, the day of the election, but all the timid have to do is to stay at home, if their curiosity permits. The import duties are raised 50 per cent, from the twenty-eighth of October. But it will, fortunately, bear less heavily on the frijoles- and banana-eating part of the population than on those who want breakfastmercial, while ours, alas! has
foods and pdt^ de foie gras. cook comes to-day, highly recommended, but I can see just the sort of things she will turn out, if left to herself fried bananas, goat stew, etc. She comes accompanied by her little girl of three. One of the washerwomen also has a child with her, and there are tentative remarks from other quarters regarding offspring. But the house is so big that a few indwellers, more or
A
—
less,
make no
difference;
and
I
am
not sorry, in these
uncertain times, to harbor a few bright-eyed, softskinned, silent brown babies under my roof. The handsome Indian maid who came to the city from her pueblo, because her stepfather was too attentive, has gone. She simply vanished; but as the other servants, on inquiry, don't seem worried, I suppose it is all right. They have a way of leaving after they get their month's wages, though their departure is generally preceded by some such formality as declaring that their grandmother is dead, or their aunt ill. Where they go is a mystery. To-morrow we lunch at the Simon's. He is the clever French Inspecteur des Finances of the Banco Nacional. They have a handsome house in the Paseo, an excellent 22