[XXIX-29] Fine and costly tortoise-shell combs were at one time much used. Women wear hats only when riding on horseback. The Guat. female is fond of embroidered articles, costly fans, rich jewelry, and every other finery. There are other women in the world like them.
[XXIX-30] It being starched into stiff folds, it supplied in some measure the place of a jacket.
[XXIX-31] Wealthy women objected to their female servants wearing other than naguas, and would have none that wore shoes.
[XXIX-32] Such places are convenient, though not agreeable, owing to the variety and abundance of fleas, jiggers, etc. Laferrière, De Paris à Guatém., 267; Stephens' Trav. Cent. Am., i. 163-81.
[XXIX-33] In bull-fights they merely worry and torture the animal, but never kill it in presence of the public.
[XXIX-34] The vice is not prevalent among the Indians who live apart in their villages. During the bathing season in Amatitlan, for instance, the time is spent in gambling, and intrigues between the sexes, and among the visitors are always a number of veritable sharpers. The native generally bears his losses with hardly a sign of impatience. Dunlop's Cent. Am., 152-3; Stephens' Trav. Cent. Am., i. 261, 298-301; Boddam Whetham, Across Cent. Am., 136-8.
[XXIX-35] Barrios, Mensaje, 1876, 55-6; Guat., Mem. Sec. Fomento, 1880, 35-6; 1883, 59-60; 1884, 40-1; 1885, 44-6.
[XXIX-36] Bates' Cent. Am., etc., 110.
[XXIX-37] The fevers of the country are the intermittent, resembling the worst form of fever and ague in the western U. S.; the calentura, which is a type of the same. It is not common in the interior, and yields usually to strong cathartics, followed by quinine, which physicians are wont to administer in heavy doses. Wells' Hond., 547-8. Yellow fever breaks out with more or less virulence some years at the ports, particularly on the Atlantic side; it has occasionally spread to the interior. Diario de Méx., 539-40, 569-71; Amér. Cent. Cie Belge, ii. 48-52; Disturnell's Infl. of Clim., 252; Costa R., Informe Sec. Gobern., 1869, 15; Nic., Gaceta, May 9 to Aug. 8, 1868; Laferrière, De Paris à Guatém., 47-8, and table 444 B. Measles and scarlet fever have also made their appearance epidemically, destroying many lives. Salv., El Siglo, May 28 to Aug. 14, 1851; Id., Diario Ofic., July 31, 1875; Costa R., Mem. Sec. Guerra, etc., 1867, doc. D, 31.
[XXIX-38] Nic. adopted timely precautions to escape it, by having the people vaccinated. Nic., Boletin Ofic., Aug. 2, 1862.