Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-10
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All types of Spanish and Mexican
beauty filed the little plaza Of Mixcoac
that Sunday forenoon. says Mexico
correspondent Of the Boston Herald.
There were the flashing eyes of CASTLE,
the large, liquid, melancholy eyes OF
the Moors set in true Moorish faces,
and the gray or blue eyes of the Ger
manic conquerors of the Iberian penin-
sula There was tall, slender girl. in
neat brown toilet, with eyes that
seemed to magnetic her admirers
eyes dark and lustrous, which were not
used with artfulness, but were, by nat
ure and without art, of the sort that
make of these susceptible male Latins
slaves and serfs. One superb woman
might have been taken for q goddess of
Mexican liberty. She was of blonde
type, but with dark eyes; erect, SYM
pathetic in the Spanish and Italian
sense, of noble proportions, fit for the
canvas of Titan. There were so
many handsome women and girls on
the ground that the men who had come
out to see the flower show quite for
got the wonders of vegetation and gave
themselves up to admiration of
natures masterpiece. Mexico might
make of her finest women an exhibit
that would conquer the hearts of civil
lied men and bring half of Europe here
to find its fate A feature of the exhi-
bition, and tolerated with southern
carelessness, was the gambling. There
were roulette tables in full swing, card
games, and last but not bit the least,
the three-card monte. ALI these peo-
pie and their apparatus were kept out
side the low wall of the plaza. It was
very funny to watch the monte sharps,
who were each accompanied by one or
two confederates. who, affecting indif-
ference, would saunter up and win from
ST. to S. with entire equanimity. But
these gamblers had the hard-set mouth,
the deep dropping lines over the lips
that mark the man who lives by games
of chance. The monte operators had
blankets of gaudy hue which they sat
upon, manipulating the cards with
great rapidity and calling out inces-
sanity:
Colorado Colorado Colorado !!
Blanco! Blanco! Blanco! tantas vual-
tas tantas vueltas!" etc, till one was
quite deafened. One chap had con-
federate who assumed the role of q
nurse girl She was modestly dressed
in cotton frock, and q neat cotton
rebozo covered head and shoulders.
She was picture of girlish innocence,
and when she first staked her big silver
dollar on the card she had selected I
thought her q sort of foolish maiden
who was being entrapped by guileful
man. She won and then tried again
and won once more. Some people
tempted by her luck, tried their hand
and lost! Soon the monte sharp had
shifted his blankets to another place.
I followed him and there found,
trying her hand again, that
innocent damsel dressed as q
in the service of good
family. As often as the monte man
took new place so often was to be
found the nurse girl, and how artlessly
she won her dollars, which afterwards
she slyly gave back to her partner.
Many soldiers played at roulette, some
winning and some losing. Thes faces
of the big-eyed little boys watching the
rolling of the ball were study. The
police stood about idly, never interior
ing with the busy gamblers, but ready
to see that no one robbed the piles of
silver lying on blankets on the ground
or on red-colored tables in the open air
OF under tents.