Diplomatic Days

First impressions of the tropics--Exotic neighbors on Page 1 shipboard--Havana--Picturesque Mayan stevedores--Vera Cruz--The journey up to Mexico City

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First visit to the Embassy--Adjusting oneself to a height of Page 16 eight thousand feet in the tropics--Calle Humboldt--Mexican servants--Diplomatic dinners--Progress of Maderista forces

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Mexico in full revolution--Diaz's resignation wrung from Page 32 him--Memories of the "King in Exile"--President de la Barra sworn in--Social happenings--Plan de San Luis Potosí

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First reception at Chapultepec Castle--First bull-fight--A Page 47 typical Mexican earthquake--Madero's triumphal march through Mexico City--Three days of adoration

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Dinner at the Japanese Legation--The real history of the Page 61 Japanese in Mexico--Dinner at the Embassy--Coronation services for England's king--The rainy season sets in

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Speculations as to the wealth of "the Greatest Page 69 Mexican"--Fourth of July--Madero as evangelist--The German minister's first official dinner with the Maderos as the clou

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The old monastery of Tepozotlan--Lively times on the Page 84 Isthmus--The Covadonga murders--The Chapultepec reception--Sidelights on Mexican housekeeping--Monte de Piedad

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Elim's fourth birthday party--Haggling over the prices of Page 93 old Mexican frames--Zapata looms up--First glimpse of General Huerta--Romantic mining history of Mexico

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The Vírgen de los Remedios--General Bernardo Reyes--A Page 107 description of the famous ceremony of the "Grito de Dolores" at the palace

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The uncertainty of Spanish adverbs--Planchette and the Page 120 destiny of the state--Madame Bonilla's watery garden-party--De la Barra's "moderation committee"--Madero's "reform platform"

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Election of Madero--The strange similarity between a Mexican Page 127 election and a Mexican revolution--The penetrating cold in Mexican houses--Madame de la Barra's reception--The Volador

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Dia de Muertos--Indian booths--President de la Barra Page 141 relinquishes his high office--Dinner at the Foreign Office--Historic Mexican streets--Madero takes the oath

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Uprising in Juchitan--Madero receives his first Page 153 delegation--The American arrest of Reyes--Chapultepec Park--Sidelights on Juchitan troubles--Zapata's Plan de Ayala

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The feast of Guadalupe--Peace reigns on the Page 164 Isthmus--Earthquakes--Madero in a dream--The French colony ball--Studies in Mexican democracy--Christmas preparations

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The first Christmas in Mexico City--Hearts sad and Page 179 gay--Piñatas--Statue to Christopher Columbus

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Off for Tehuantepec--A journey through the jungles--The Page 184 blazing tropics--Through Chivela Pass in the lemon-colored dawn--Ravages of the revolution--A race of queens

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Gathering clouds--"Tajada" the common disease of Page 198 republics--Reception at Chapultepec--Madero in optimistic mood--His views of Mexico's liabilities to America

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Washington warns Madero--Mobilization orders--A visit to the Page 206 Escuela Preparatoria--A race of old and young--The watchword of the early fathers

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A tragic dance in the moonlight--Unveiling George Page 217 Washington's statue--The Corps Diplomatique visits the Pyramids of San Juan Teotihuacan--Orozco in full revolt

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