Detail from “Salad of the week”: “Say now: which is the cleanest and healthiest country? As for Europe, the great cholera epidemic that is raging there, incidentally, occurs every year. We are now the ones who have to guard against the steamer lines that were putting up posters on the streets of Buenos Aires a few years ago with the following words (in Italian): Steam ahead for Genoa and Naples on the Umberto I, without touching Brazil.
There’s nothing like one day after the other!”
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1911)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 