Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1917 — Page 3

CATHEDRALS PERU

traveler in Sonth America ' who studies the various features of the history of that continent, the life of colonial times und that which followed it as the national life of the separate countries, soon discovers that there is a well-defined line of demarcation between that time when the people borrowed their artistic inspiration from the traditional sources in Europe and that later time when local influences b?gan to be felt and when the continent developed its own axtlstic sense that demanded some original expression. This statement applies to the industries that were first-brought over'from Europe across the Atlantic; it is true of the social life and of education in republics of the southern continent manifesting characteristics .which are peculiarly their own; it is likewise true of municipal, and governmental affairs, and finally in regard to the construction of their buildings, especially of the architecture ecclesiastical, edifices of the diocesan capitals, says the French edition of the Bulletin of the Pan-American union. As an example of the colonial epoch in church architecture the cathedral of Lima offers a good illustration. That country has one archbishopric, that of Lima, eight dependent bishoprics, viz., Arequlpa, Huanuco, Chachapoyas, Ayacucho, Puno Trujillo, Cuzco, and Huaraz, In connection with the name of Lima two characters will always be intimately associated with its historic memories; Plzarro. the. Intrepld-Con.-queror, whose remains rest in the cathedral whose corner stone he laid, who founded the capital and gave it the name of La Ciudad de los Reyes (the. city of the kings); and second a young girl who renounced a life of social ease and pleasure and became renowned for KeF/piety, a renown which resulted in her canonization i>y Pope Clement IX in 1671 under the name of Sgint Rosa of Lima, the patron saint of the capital city as well as of all Catholic South America. It was Plzarro "who laid the plans for the imperial city, including the erection of a great metropolitan church. It was not finished and dedicated until 1540, and it was at the request of Charles V of Spain that Pope Paul 111 raised the see of Lima to an archbishopric. As a It was determined to rebuild the edifice, and the work was started under auspicious circumstances. Owing to various Interruptions, changes of plans, and other delays the building was not finished until 1625. Not long after the consecration of the cathedral, by order of the Spanish viceroy, the mortal remains of the great conquistador tjere transferred to the edifice and now rest In a splendid sarcophagus in one of the chapels. In 1746 an earthquake made a mass of ruins of the city of Limb, the cathedral being among the buildings seriously damaged. In 1758 it was finally completely restored. The building is of gray stone, and is the largest of the old Spanish ecclesiastical edifices of South America. The facade is 480 feet wide, the crowning feature of the building being its two massive square towers. The many columns and architectural decorations are for the most part Corinthian in style; it has five nave*, each consisting of nine arched vaults, the two aisles being formed of ten chapels. The choir and stalls are of cedar and mahogany and are ornamented with remarkably fine wood carving, while among i the treasures of the church are to be found some excellent paintings, among them being a fine Murillo and one of Bembrandt’sf masterpieces/ ./ Arequipa Cathedral Is Old. ‘ Among the cathedrals of Peru Chat of Arequipa la one of the oldest and most interesting. The city was raised |o a bishopric ‘in 1557 and the erec-

CATHEDRAL OF LIMA

tion of the cathedral was commenced In 1612. It was completed In due course, but in 1844 its interior was partially destroyed by fire, many of Its rich treasures, paintings, and other possessions being lost. The rebuilding took 20 years, and four years after its restoration it again suffered some damage from the terrible earthquake of 1868. The structure faces the Plaza de Armas, its facade measuring 450 feet in length. It has three entrances and the building Is supported by 70 large columns of composite lonic and Doric style, lending it a massive and splendid appearance. The Interior Is divided Into three naves, separated by wuperb columns that support the great arches above with harmonious effect. The main altar is of marble, and the pulpit of beautifully carved wood. Ruanuco, capital of the department of the same name, was made ail episcopal see in 1865. The once large population of the city has dwindled since the discovery of the famous copper mines at Cerro de Pasco until now there are perhaps about 8,000 left. The cathedral which fronts the plaza, Is chiefly remarkable for its solid copstruction, having stone arches and a high and "pointed steeple. This is accounted for by the fact that severe earthquakes have never visited this immediate section. Chachapoyas has been a bishopric since 1843. The cathedral is a simple one-story structure of brick, having two. square towers to relieve the plainness of the facade. Ayacucho, a bishopric since 1609, has a cathedral of more pretentious architecture built of volcanic rock from the Plcota mountains. Puno, raised to a bishopric In 1861, has a cathedral which is well constructed and quite Ornate in architectural embellishment. The space of the facade between the two towers Is highly ornamented and has a number of fine statues of saints placed in open niches as an unusual feature. Trujillo’s Two Large Towers. Trujillo, an episcopal see since 1577, has a large and substantial cathedral whose architectural features are two large towers with a cupola over the center of the building. Many fine paintings decorate the sacristy. The general plan of the building is similar to that of the cathedral of Lima, but on a smaller scale. Cuzco, the ancient capital of the Incas, was made a bishopric as early as 1536. Construction of the cathedral was begun the same year, but for one reason and another the building was not completed until 90 years thereafter. It Is In the style of the Spanish renaissance and. was built of stone at a tremendous cost. The interior consists of three naves separated by stone pillars which support the high vaulted, arches. In the central nave is the* choii*, the carving of which is. superb. In Xront of It stands the high sltar, covered with silver. Two fine organs fill the church with the music of their rich tones on Sundays and feast days. Among the most "valuable of its treasures is a painting, “EL Senor de la Agonia,” said to be one of Van Dyck’q masterpieces. In the- sacristy are portraits of the popes and of all the bishops of Cuzco. One of the most preciofis possessions of the cathedral is the monstrance, which Is ornamented with pearls, diamonds, emeralds, rubles, and other precious stones of great value. Huaraz was made an episcopal see in 1899 and the erection of a new cathedral is being contemplated.

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Looking Ahead.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Fur Coats and Earrings Again

Combination Once More With Us, and Human Nature Responds to Call. SMOOTH PELTRIES PREFERRED ' " Prevailing Fur Coats Hava Less Flare Than Last Year, Unless They Arq Cut—Three-Quarter Length Muffa Are Small and Simple. New York. —As far back as one can look into the annals of American fashions, the possession of a sealskin coat was accounted supreme happiness. The woman who had such a garment, linked with a pair of diamond earrings, either strutted in her vanity or tried to look unconscious of the envy of her neighbors. Other times, other wishes. Three decades have passed since the sealskin coat was a desirable possession, and the diamond earrings swinging from a long loop that went through a pierced hole in the ear speedily sank into that blackness of barbarism from which it had sprung. The fur coat and the diamond earring are with us again, and again human nature responds to the same old call. They ate not In the shape in which they prevailed for so many decades among our best families. Looking back on the pierced ear with its pendant bauble, we have a shudder of horror to think that enlightened and Christian nations should have really permitted their women, to retain this bit of savagery without bitter protest. Our mothers had their ears pierced as children, and possibly we did, too,

This evening gown of black velvet has shoulder straps of ermine, also a fringe of this expensive peltry at the hem. There is a diplomat’s sash of it that goes across the chest and hangs to the knees.

if we were bora before the barbarism was abolished. There are thousands of us now who bear those scars. We cover them up with tabs of hair or, better still, with ornaments that clamp over the ear, just to hide the ravages of an earlier epoch. We have not given up the barbaric baubles; the world is too young to ask that denial of women. The elimination of colored stones, cheap and precious, may come as civic life presses itself more insistently into the social scale and women will do as men have done in giving up all that is ornamental and resisting the lure of the barbaric. Elemental and'Primitive. After all, we are elemental and primitive in our clothes. We may change the symptoms, but the deep-seated disease is there. What woman is there who doesn’t want to wear peltry? Those companions of the Paleolithic men in Europe probhbly received massive peltry as marriage gifts. Men have always been hunters of game, and women have always been wearers of skips. Therefore, how can we expect to change primitive instinct merely because we have changed our behavior? And then, there is nothing else that keeps one so warm as peltry, one may argue. This reasoning, however, has little to do with the fact. There are women as far south as the boundary line of Florida who are buying fur coats that reach to their heels, and there are women in India who stilt gird their loins with the skins of beasts. Logic and reasoning are not behind the wearing of peltry; it is the absolute expression of primordial Instinct. The skins of the animals are not the same; they differ as the world’s epochs differ. It was quite easy for m woman of the stone to invent herself in the skin of a stone age animal, but today it taken many skins from the squirrel, ermine, sable, rabbit or rat to make one garment for one woman.

It was necessary to introduce semiprecious furs, because it was not possible for the masses to pay the prlcO of the precious ones; so this winter we have a vast variety from which to choose. The furriers say there is no one animal that reigns supreme and that the peltry of any animal is worth while if it passes through the right hands. The art of the furrier has become significant. His is the magic quality to make squirrel look like sable, to make graccoon and ’possum reach important heights and to put pony skin on a pedestal, He has learned how to point the common fox and lift the wolf into greatness. He has made beaver almost precious and has made Belgian hare do some service to the world. It IS no wonder, therefore, that a woman pays well for peltry, no mat-ter-from what, animal it was. skinned. Her dollars go to the furrier, and that is where she is far behind the stone age woufan who employed no middleman between the beast and the garment. The Fashion in Furs. There are two or three things that OMSi might say are out of fashion: first, the band of fur on.the hem of a cloth or velvet coat; second, the small an’lmal with head and tails worn snugly around the neck. No one who dresses well is partial to the usage of the en- ■ tire animal this season, which is well, for there is nothing artistic about the head, glassy eyes and feet of a dead animal hanging below a woman’s live, face. Why look like the hunter home from the field? The small neckpiece is in the shape of a half muffler or a whole one If you like, provided that the two ends are fastened In front. Unless a single end thrown over the shoulder is excessively weighted, it is a nuisance to the wearer.

The extra high coachman’s collar of fur remains in fashion for those who do not like to spoil the shapeliness of their shoulders and back by hanging drapery. The fashionable neckpiece is really a shoulderpiece, for in many of the best models it extends to the waistline. There is a snugness about the shoulders that is reminiscent of Victorianism. The prevailing fur coats have less flare than last winter, unless: they are cut three-quarter length. The long ones hang in a straight, medieval line, with sometimes a deep band of another fur at the hem. Their rivals, the velour and velvet coats, have the hem free of peltry, but make up for this omission by lavishness at the 'waist, the neck and the wrists. Immense Slavic belts of fur, ornamented with barbaric designs of jewels in front, are fashionable for gowns and coats. Wristleis of fur that reach almost to the elbow are also In demand. The muff is a small affair, barrel shaped and usually made of two kinds of fur. Its distinguishing feature is simplicity. It has no cordings nor frills nor ornamentation. Evening gowns are trifiuned with fur, and evening coats are heaped with 1L Black and white tails of ermine are used to fringe the edges of velvet evening gowns, and-on one distinguished black velvet dinner frock there are shoulder straps of ermine and a diplomat’s ribbon of the same peltry that is spread across the chest and finished at the waist with a rosette. Among the furs that are offered as first choice this season are ermine, kolinski, flying squirrel, sealskin, Belgian rabbit, sable, skunk, moleskin and beaver. The smooth peltries are preferred to the long-haired ones. Even such furs as kolinski and skunk have a razor passed down them by the furrier to bring them to the softness of sealskin. This Is the first time that It has been possible to make that coarse fur called skunk becoming to the face. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

FUR GOES ON CHIFFON.

- Afternoon gown of taupe-colored chiffon, with collar, belt and hem of black seal. The embroidery is In silver threads.

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