Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
done with the strange though not unsavOry
food before me.
A KINDLY PEOPLE.


A KINDLY PEOPLE.
In form and feature Azoreans are neither
90 delicate nor classic as the Spanish. II
citizen Trains assertion that "Fat is
Death = be true, then death Turks in these
sunny isles. Both men and women are
snort, plump and over fed in appearance,
though giimpses now and then upon street
OF Daleony OF senoritas Of face and form
divine may often be had. But the taller,
Iltner, more willowy, oriental and romantic
types are oftener seen among the really
handsome peasantry and the lowIy classes
in the cities.
The latter, after all, furnish the most
interesting studies. They are the kindliest
people on earth. Among the 20, 900 of them
In fonta Oelgada no human eould suffeF
Insult or rear any known danger. From the
naked child playing in the gutter or by the
fountains, past all manner of seryitors in
every calling, to the beggars who swarm
every plaza, inn court or church door. to the
most abandoned Iout summing himself upon
the ouays or at Wlneshop entrances, there il
naught but kindliness in act worn or look.
And this look in the faces Of the lowIv is
worth a word. Make an inouirv. offer
trihing aims, request service. bestow .
greeting, and every soul here in the Azores
Will lit face OF such radiant and sunny
good nature, beaming with a smile Of such
extraordinary sweetness. that the strangers
whole heart, if ne have one. grows and
glows in genial content and gratitude. In
this is one of the iVeliest pleasures of q
visit to the Azores
The most characteristic street-scenes owe
their color wholly to the lowly The fisher
IoIk from whom we secure for New Bedford
and Gloucester service our most valued
Z an ara mo- -.
pescadOres of Havana. The coeheiros with
their broad hats, short jackets, short baggy
trowsers' bare feet and tremendous vhips or
goads, are wonderful set of fellows. yolu.
bic TO distraction, full of mighty oaths.
harmless as kittens and honest beyond all
belief The city brings its water from noun
tain lakes to innumerable fountains which
spout, babble and sing day and night long.
MODELS FOR ARTISTS.
At every one of these old moss-eovered
jetties groups of barefooted men and women
constantly gather These are the water car
riers of Ponta Delgada, and an artist can at
any time Of the day find as picturesque mod
els as the Riviera can anywhere furnish.
What muscular sWarthy fellows they are.
and what graceful attitudes and posings they
unconsclously assume as they loiter bit for
chatter and gossip before they shoulder the
great wooden casks and trot gaily away with
their mighty loads, with the air of mount
aineer without an ounce Of burden to encum-
Der his wiry limbs. And see these Azorean
girls-grsat dancing eyes, pouting lips ever
parting from dazzling white teeth, their
tongues ceaselessly running in musical stac-
cato, ond their supple forms ever in irrepres-
slble movement from the boundless life With
in them. Their short skirts disclose limbs
and feet which outri7al the Venus of Cos in
delicate symmetry. Their smart bodices
vainly hide busts Of marvellous roundness
and amplitude, with full arehing neck barred
above, and croWning it such dainty and
dimpled chin as even Tuscany cannot match;
while the line from tip of little finger up
their brown round arms to beyond the
dimpled elbow is marvellous study in na-
ture's only perfect mobile bronze. But they
have dallied and chatted long enough. With
q whisk little pad Of rushes or cloth is
slapped on their dainty shapely heads; in q
twinkling the huge. reed sarthen jar, half
as tall and quite as big as they, is resting on
the pad; and with a song or roguish laugh
they are away, tripping homeward as dainti-
ly and airily as in measures Of the contra
DANA or waltz. EDGAR L. WAKEMAH,