Chiclcts, the chowing gum of Moxico is peddlcd by
small pre-school children throughout bars and rostaurants,
It is difficult to resist buying from these persuasivo wee
vendors calling 'checklots!' 'cheecklcts!,

Pepsi Cola and othcr soda pops are greatcr sellers
there than in Canada, students drinking at least one and |
sometimes two with their mcals instcad of milk or coffce and
the refreshment stands spotting tho highways and strocts
thrive on the ‘tropical elimate ena tic Scareiuy of cood
drinking water,

The Mexican woaring apparcl follows closely the
stylos of America. The Mexicans clear their throats, yawn
and gaze lazily about the buses reading the ads. Everywhere
you scc counteorparts of your Canadians, it becomes casy to
forgot you are in Moxica,

Only in the villages does life retain much of the
flavor of old. Moxico. There, refrigerators, gas stoves, in-
door plumbing and Bimbo bread (the sliced, packaged bread
of Mexico) are acceptod and used by the middle elassos.. but
their lives still scem to be guided and controllcd by their
tortilla-cating, adobe-sholtered, unambitious village
inhabitants.

In the villagos particularly in the cooler regions
of the mountains, women still have thcir heads and shoulders
draped with multi-coloured shawls; men still throw savy wool
blankets about their bodies and women aro raroly Seen in the
streets after dark,

Mexico is a land of agure skies and burning suns;

even in the summer rainy season, rain scldom falls for more

than an hour. Moxico offers oxciting panoramas of kalcido-

scopal country; dry, cactied, wasted deserts, gently rolling

hills building up to lush, rich jungles; through the banana }

plantations rising to tho fog blanket of snow-tippod mountains, .

there sweoping down to an isolatcd sea, wrapped and protected |

by miles Of white benches, Tt 1s 8 fend of Simple, honest |

people who find great pleasure in giving and being at your

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on UML is your dicot, your taste buds thera will
find complete satisfaction. Bananas, soft succulent small
ones sell as low a8 a half cent coach, Pineapples sell for
four cents and cocoanuts for five. The vegetables in contrast |
are limited and interior in flavour and colour, Meat tends
to bo leathery; but their fish, including shrimps and crabs,
are inexpensive and delicious,