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Hot Milk. "There is plenty of wine in the country, and people drink it with their meals, but they usually spend their evenings in coffeehouses, drinking strong coffee and hot milk. They sit in coffeehouses for hours, settle all the questions that vex the world, and go to bed at night happy and satisfied."
Attentive listeners failed to catch any allusion to the high-spirited and exceedingly graceful dancers whom Ambassador Moore may well have applauded when he set out of an evening to squander a few pesetas on hot milk and coffee.
It is still possible to go into one of the early-evening-coffeehouses, sip one's coffee and witness as much of the performance as one has time for, at an outlay roughly equivalent to the cost of a doughnut and coffee at Childs.
* Formerly Dictator and head of the Military Directorate, which recently voluntarily restored something like civil government to Spain (TIME, Dec. 14).