The British Minister, the American, the Swedish, the Belgian, the German, the Argentine, with their suites, are soon recognizable. You go to call on your American Minister, find it is an afternoon “at home,” and imagine you know what the confusion of tongues was like, for all the other kinds of foreigners are there. You go also to call on the Methodist missionary, sent by the Southern Church from Georgia. He is the only Protestant minister living in this region except the German Lutheran, who is the shepherd of a colony of good German workers imported by the Emperor long ago. These Methodists have begun with a school instead of a church, and have honored their work by buying a beautiful building in beautiful grounds for a seminary, which is the only rival of the school of the nuns in the old imperial palace. These are both boarding as well as day-schools. You smile when you become conscious of some of the difficulties these teachers have in preparing text-books and explaining general literature, for the North Star is not visible--the Southern Cross has taken its work. December, January and February are the hottest months; Christmas will probably be scorching; the sun shines in at the north windows, and the farther south you go the colder it grows; for you are south of the equator. Have Australia and South Africa and South America had to read all our best literature all these years with a commentary to make it intelligible! The Portuguese days of the week suggest Old and New Testament instead of the heathenish origin of Anglo-Saxon names: Monday _Segunda Feira_ Second Market Day. Tuesday _Terça Feira_ Third Market Day. Wednesday _Quarta Feira_ Fourth Market Day. Thursday _Quinta Feira_ Fifth Market Day. Friday _Sexta Feira_ Sixth Market Day. Saturday _Sabbado_ The Sabbath. Sunday _Domingo_ The Lord’s Day. You have made several friends among coffee, insurance, banking, exchange, diplomatic and missionary people, and have discovered mutual friends “at home”; so you have had visits and invitations to drive and to walk, and now have one for a breakfast at one o’clock on Sunday. Really just what would the Sabbath Observance Committee do here? There is no English service till four in the afternoon, to be held in a hall over a grocery store by the missionary of the Methodist Church. A Frenchman comes to mind who mentioned with bewildered disgust the American plea for closing the Exposition on Sunday: “What do they expect us to do, then! Sit on a bench in the park all day!”