Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1913 — Page 3

IN A MEXICAN VILLAGE

THE little village of Panuco de Coronado, in the state of Durango, presents an average Mexican village, one that can be duplicated anywhere in the northern two-thirds of the country. It is typical even in its legend —all mining towns here have the same. Once upon a time its mines yielded so much rich ore that the owner could pave with silver the street leading from his house to the church on the occasion of his. daughter’s marriage. Panuco, like all Mexican villages, is a transplanted bit of the orient. There is the same small, low adobe house with flat roof and no chimney and usually no window. Women carry the same jars of water on their heads and men clad in loose white cotton trudge lazily behind their little burros or more likely add their weight to the already overburdened animals. The glaring sun beats down from a tropical sky on the same palm and cactus and a general air of emptiness and silence pervades the streets. The. universal building material Is adobe, which is faced with piaster only In the better houses. These are always built in the form of a hollow square—the rooms opening into the patio in the center. The more pretentious homes have windows, barred on the outside because the houses are built snug up to the street, which gives (hem the appearance of cells In a prison. Village Scenes by Day. There is no patch of green or anybright to relieve the uniform dust brown color of house and street, writes Jessie Fawler in the Los Angeles Times. No spear of grass is in sight and all the flowers are kept in the patio. The particular village ctfn boast of two trees, one cottonwood on the outskirts and one pepper berry. To enter one of these huts is to step in on a mud floor, rarely a brick one, to see a few earthenbowls and saucers In one corner, a little pile of charred ashes In another and a rude altar made of a couple of packing Choses, decorated with a few gaudy bits of tinsel and scraps of ribbon and empty beer bottles with withered flowers, an offering to the virgin of Guadeloupe who looks down dtrom the wall. Chairs, bed and tableXare luxuries not commonly found. Mexican women are fond of flowers and the patios are bright with blossoms throughout the year. One traveler describes a Mexican village as “sun, silence and adobe," and this is one’s first and last Impression. Whatever life It Is around the plaza; for away from here one sees paly an occasional water carrier or a peon closely wrapped In his serape squatting on the ground in the sun. Pigs and dogs are everywhere. They come from every open doorway and follow us, yelping and barking. A dozen dogs are not too many for an average family. And the pigs—they sleep in the middle of the street, and not until our horses’ feet are almost on them do they grunt and lazily move a step to the right. But in the evening all is changed and the place is full of life and stir. Everybody comes out to enjoy the music and to stroll around and around the plaza. Men and women do not walk together unless married or engaged, but the men walk three or four abreast on the inside of the promenade and the women on the outside in the opposite direction. Through the open doors of the pulque shops may be seen groups of men drinking the nauseous beverage. These shops, as well as all the stores, are not known by the name of their owner, but by some such fapclful names as “Flowers of May," “Afternoons in April” and "The Surprise.” No village is too small to have Its band, and a good one, too, that plays at the plaza one or two evenings a week throughout the year. The natives are very musical and one hears everywhere the tinkle of the guitar or ipandol'.n playing-dome native air, like the plaintive “La Golodrina,” or possibly the latest Importation from home. • One does not need to read the sign “Esquela para nlnas" painted In big black letters on a low plastered building to know that it is a school for girls, for the children study In concert and—well, pulmonary troubles are not common at this altitude. Primary education Is compulsory throughout the republic and so every village has two schools, one for boys and another for girls. When Pay Day Arrives. Pay day comes once a month. Work

TYPICAL GROCERY STORE.

at the mines stops for the day and by seven o’clock the men and women begin to gather around the office and set up their little stands for the sale o£ dulces, limes, pomegranates, sugar* cane and oranges. By nine o’clock the place has taken on quite a holiday aspect. Groups of senoras, each with a black eyed baby In her lap, sit on the ground and crochet lace or Idly gossip. Men wrap themselves close in their serapes and wait stplidly for ten o’clock, when they will be paid off. All the people, men, women and children, come from miles around on foot, on burros, on ponies and in all sorts of nondescript wagons. Thq hacendado comes in from some neigh, boring hacienda, looking very pie* turesque in his silver bespangled buckskin, while his pony, with silvertrimmed saddle is a match for hiq rider. When they have all been paid they must get rid of their money at the store.

Each man wears around his waist q square piece of white cloth folded diagonally and tied so that the point hangs down in the back. This cloth serves a double purpose; It acts as q belt to hold up the trousers and as q receptacle for all purchases made. The man removes this cloth, spreads It out on the counter at the store and Into it are dumped ills purchases—* packages of cigarettes, boxes o| matches, a few cakes of soap, two or three kilos of corn and perhaps a couple of meters of cloth. No wrapping paper is used, but everything, lard excepted, is dumped into this cloth. Crackers he takes either inside his hat or on the out* side. He never looks at the quality or asks the price, for It is a case ol Hobson’s choice. Time is no object with these people, so it Is almost night before the last one goes away. The fiesta of Santa Cruz the of the holy cross, is the miner’s'day of the year, when all the mines through* out the country stop work. Crosses are placed on all unfinished as well as a huge one in the plaza, and are decorated with flowers, bits of ribbon and glass, while around the main cross are placed palmilias with their five feet stocks of beautiful white flowers. There is incessant fir. ing of guns throughout the day and the celebration ends with music and dancing in the evening.

The French chamber of commerce in London has recently made an examination of the egg market and ascertained that the largest eggs solif there come from Denmark. The Danish eggs are the most popular as well as the< heaviest The great majority of them weigh more than two and one* half ounces. The average American egg has been found to weigh as much as the heaviest French eggs. This investigation classified the eggs as tq country only. Some years ago obser* vations were taken as to breeds of hens. Records were made of the weight of eggs that several hens of well known breeds laid during a period of six months. It was found that the largest eggs were produced by light Brahmas, the average weight be* ing two and one-third ounces. Pub lets’ eggs did not exceed two ounces in weight.

I have seen very many first offenders and talked to them before they got into the hands, of pleaders and others, and my experience tells m* that a man who has committed his first offense is very like a man whd has caught his first attack of serious illness. He Is afraid not so much of the results as of the thing itself. Sin has caught him and he is afraid of sin. He wants protection and help and cure. He does not want to hide anything; his first need is confession to some understanding ear. Many, many such confessions have I beard in tha old days. That la the result of the first offense. —H. Fielding-Hall, In the Atlantic.

“So you have been camping for two weeks T’ “Yes.” "Did you rough it?” “Yes. One of the fellows took along his phonograph.”

“What's T>ebome of that bunch tha| was always coming to town to take In the sight*?” “What? Haven't you heard? Where do you suppose we draft our material to formulate the vice committees?"

Denmark Eggs Heaviest.

The First Offense.

Additional Hardship.

Drafting the Experts.

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BLOUBE EFFECTS IN ORDER FOR SEASON'S GARMENTS.. •mart Little Coat Sult Illustrated May Be Taken as Design That Will Have the Sanction of Those Who Know. Delightful and more useful than •ver are the coat and skirt sultd of the coming season, the majority -of which are suitable, for dress wear or street in a wide range of handsome materials. The blouse effects are constantly growing In favor —in fact, they are the preferred designs for the soft, supple goods like, the velour surfaced ones and the new cheviot weaves. All tailored suits are extremely simple of cut, but more or less complex of silhouette, and, contrary to preceding seasons, very little trimming Is used the success of the costume depending largely on graceful draping and swathing of materials. The smart little coat suit of the sketch Is representative of the simpler models. The coat is what Is known as a Russian cutaway, an attractive compromise between two of the season’s favorite whims. Its material Is one of the pebble-finished woolen weaves in mole brown. The skirt is rather long and plain, with the tunic

Costumes of this Type Are Fashionable for Early Fall.

fastened across the front at the knees by a square tab held in place with oval buttons, and trimmed with soutache motifs in purple and black. Mole brown satin is used for the under plain skirt and only needs a panel of the suit material down the center front to fill in the space above and below the buttoned-over section of the tunic. In the blouse the fullness is distrib-

MAY BE MADE RICH OR PLAIN

Wide Variety of Styles Allowed in the Adornment of Popular Boleros and Etons. Beaded wraps, boleros and etons are In a wide variety of styles. Many of these are decorated with beaded panels or borders in rich oriental designs. Futurist or cubist patterns are also employed. Coatees of chiffon or net are elaborately beaded, and many beaded robes are seen. Handsome beaded and jeweled ornaments and very long beaded tassels adorn sashes. Beaded tunics and draperies are particularly smart for use with dainty, dresses. In*tmany models the waist and tuple are made in one, the beading showing pearls, crystals, rhinestones, colored glass and gold and silver. Jetted tunics are especially fashionable. These beaded draperies are used over slightly draped linings. The combination of beads with chenille embroidery Is new and smart A touch of wool embroidery is often Introduced into chenille and beaded goods.

Smoking Table.

A smoking table made of lacquered brass stands on a high standard which brings the table just about the level of the arm of a chair. It is equipped with the usual cigar jar, ash tray and match box holder. In the center of the table is a long-armed electric light, which bends to any angle and is shaded with a brass shade. The wire runs through the leg of the table, and is there run into a silk-covered cord, which is screwed into a convenient socket. Surely this table suggests a comfortable time with cigars and newspaper or magazin*.

IN BLUE VELVET.

Model of blue velvet with tunic of embroidered tulle. High satin belt Sleeves of Mousseline de Sole.

uted across the sides, which pouch a trifle over the crushed satin belt. The fronts cross each other, the right side over the left, in a tab that reproduces the one of the tunic, and similarly is trimmed and held in place with the ovel-shaped buttons. The soft collar rolls up high about the neck, and the soft purple satin tie running uriaer the tab hangs cut below it in a v loop and tasseled end. „ Tha three-quarter-length sleeves are set Into dropped shoulders finished with soft roll-back cuffs and trimmed with the soutache motifs.

WHITE DECORATION ON GREEN

Effective Ornaments That May Be Applied on the Simplest of Costumes. A stunning dress can be made from oyster-white linen embroidered in a rather subdued row of green. Buttonhole a diagonal row of green scallopping from the neck to the bottom of the skirt and place from six to twelve white crochet buttons, the number depending upon the size, along the row of scalloping on the waist and continuing on down below the waist Mne for some distance on the skirt. Each white crochet button should have in its center a large green French knot. The lay-down collar and turn-back cuffs of the dress are scalloped in green, and in the curve of each of the collar and cuff scallops is nestled a group of three green French knots. One large knot may be used if preferred. A spray of green leaves worked solidly on the front of the waist, or a soft green silk tie slipped under the collar and knotted in front, carries out the color scheme. Wear with the dress a crush green silk girdle'with the popular ends at the side back or a green suede leather belt. This costume over a green silk underskirt occasionally- peeps out above white-shod feet should make, at the very least, an “impression." Heavy, clinging linen should be used, and no starch should be used In laundering it.

OF DAINTY CREPE DE CHINE

Charming Frock That Is Fresh From the Hands of One of the Most Famous Designers. Crepe de chine, which is the most beautiful of the silks for draping and

and underskirt; the latter with this exception being perfectly plain.

Latest French Makeup.

French women haVe abandoned their purple powder which was specially manufactured for electric light make-up. Nor' are they as keen about tne saffron powder that made them Idok as if they had just returned from long holidays and were nicely tanned. At the moment they seem inclined to turn to pink and whiteness, with patches and powdered hair.

shirring, has been fashioned into the above charming frock. The blouse portion was gathered into two shirred puffs forming a bolero over a dainty vest of cream shadow lace with little pointed yoke of the same. The sleeve is similarly treated at the elbow and a little cuff of the lace shows below. Sat-in-covered buttons of the shade of , the crepe, which is a soft gray, trim bodice

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