Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1920 — VERA CRUZ WORTH VISITING [ARTICLE]

VERA CRUZ WORTH VISITING

Mexlia City Hfoa Number Of Abtraction* That Invite th* ; Wandering Cruz 1* a city of contrast*. Ite vividly painted house* of red. blue and y*U*W tent ci*** to the narrow atrcttA have grated windows and heavyy forbidding doors, which glv* Mttl* evidence at the chartering interiors with their patios,, palm-shaded, Ailed toith exotic Aowsc* and cooled by fountains. - x - *. Modern street cars leek out of place in tint same streets with, burros laden with merchandise, ftulte and vegetihiwy and .caballero* Mk4hntr broad sombreros, vividly colored blankets, enormous opera and silver-mounted saddles. Even th* tropical climate la tn ahiuf contrast with the anew* capped, extipct volcano, Orizaba, which towers- almost 20,000 feet into the cold air above. Although thia peak la nearly fifty miles away from the dty, it can bo plainly seen from there, and make* a beautiful picture standing whitOAagalnst the sky or catching all the colors at the sunrise. Another point of Interest to the ancient ffortyess of San Juan d’Ulloa, which is built on an island, connected to th*' mainland at the northern end by a long sea wan. It has a fair exbeing painted a pure and radiant white, but hidden beneath this Innocent mantle are dark and noisome dungeons where ssany political prisoners of Mexico have been kept for yoarsi " .v

Turning hastily from this unpleasant scone, gentle reader, let us retrace our steps to th* center of the dty, which is.marfced by the fossa. This Is a laige and beautiful square filled with palms and flowers, and watched over benignly by the ancient and statoly-eethodrak. Every evening during th* band eooeart.it is <h*i ouaint custom of thekyouths of Vera Crus to promenade around th* square on the outside of th* watt in one direction, white th* youn< girls, carefully watched over. thdr duennas, walk In the opposite direction on the inside. In this way most Mexican flirtations begun. ,