CHAPTER IV

RACIAL ELEMENTS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS

The Argentine of the future (?) and of the past—Spanish and Italian immigration—Young patriots—Argentine and Uruguayan sources of immigration—River Plate Spanish and philology—Argentines and Uruguayans contrasted—Manners and characteristics—The true signification of “Mañana”—Some advice to immigrants—Land and the foreigner—Much learning and little application—Lower-class illiteracy—Argentine women, households, and children—_Jeunesse dorée_—Further contrast of Argentines and Uruguayans 40