Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-26
TRAVELLING IN SPAIN.
LIFE AS SEEN FROM THE WINDOWS
OF A RAILROAD CAR.

A third class carriage is not very
pleasant place even il sou can see lHo
beauties Of Spain from its dirty WINDOWS
l can but describe the one | Travelled Ia as
resembling nm American cattle car htted
IN with park benches At the enas OF
each car is printed the number which de
sirnates the number Of passengers car
is expected to hold--usually ninety
The time Of which am writing was
early spring. vet al night there YVES
damp chill in the air and the atmosphere
of the car was redoeut with the smell OF
that highly favored Spanish del!eacy
garlic pudding This popular relish
every Spaniard takes with him, IN an
earthen pot. whenever he travels. II he
is only going a few miles the pudding
goes too, to be handy in case Of emer
gency.
As night grew on apace, my compan-
ions, the peasants, prepared themselves
for sleep The preparations were speed
lily accomplished, each man muiuin9 nm
self in his cloak up to his eyes, and ali
leaning in one direction on each bench as
If by previous agreement, those on the
next bench leaning the other way. But
for this equalization should have thought
the car tipping and about to slide down
They breathe through this cloak Some
times the cloak is an heirloom and the
continual breathing through it by few
generations does not make this article OF
their apparel more presentable
GARLIC PUDDING,
Some stayed awake for while to smoke
their cigarettes, You would imagine
from the assiduous way the peasants OF
fered each other tobacco and that garlic
delicacy of which have spoken, that
they were very polite by nature found
out aftcrward, however, that III Spainyou
arc expected to decline when anything is
offered to you--if you understand Ell
quette Not being aware, at the time, Of
this social law, | took some garlic pud
ding which "a vi!lanous looking peasant
offered me thought that the act might
please him, showing that | was not too
proud or stuck up to eat what he and
the rest ate. paid dearly for my expert
ment, for it nearly strangled me with it's
odor; yet | found strength to murmur
'bueno, though the tears surged into
my eyes while | thanked the donor,
In my perambuLtions around the world
have come upon many yillainous smells
but never before such a concentrated
combination of odors as that garlic pud
ding emitted Later learned to distin-
guish localities and streets by it. The
Spaniards cannot cook without garlic
Often as | have asked for something
without aio, never did / find anything but
had some faint of garlic
1t may be unnecessary to speak Of the
inordinate smoking Of the SLaniards
They are unequaed by any nation in the
world as smoke producers 1t is very
hard to meet one, morning, noon or night
withor tine inevitable cigarette attach
mont. imenton it as Il discovery that |
mot one Spaniard who did not smoke.
TIP STANDARDS CIGARETTE
The Spaniard bends his cigarette down
ward, at nearly right angle 1t home
and abroad, except in cathedral or museo,
the rings OF smoke are always rising in
perpetual incense The sonora ut her
toilet in the window smokes her cigar
cite. The beggar asking aims, and rat
Ting at the iron gate of the patio smokes
meanwhile. Only bulro, line patient
donkey doesn't smoke
by and 10y the train stopped and a
portly peasant and his two daughters on
tune, with the mantilla. They had tho
grace Of leopards in their movements,
and eyes that seemed full of hidden fires
CLo 10 utih' WIN ulue uldch eyes ana
golden brown skin, that lovely color
which only comes from life in the sun.
at work IN the fields. The other had the
blonde hair Murillo so loved to paint.
Though simply dressed, there was some
thing strangely picturesque and poetic
about them. Both sisters spoke pure Cas-
tilian-"the tongue of the north" To
me there is no language under the sun So
musical as the soft Spanish tongue when
spoken by woman of CASTLE 1t is like
the murmur of Il brook flowing over pcb-
bles and full of dreamy harmony, like the
murmur of water at night, which the
Spanish call the sigh of the Moor
IL a JoVlAL MOOD.
This family party, the rotund fatherand
his two graceful daughters, were in
beucf, wa .,o,, o,,+a,,I ~, 80
Thev thought II reat finn fo ra,o ,1'','t1,-,
subject OF their b2diuare, Nv fit,Iro r.as
prophcsiod by one of t6e douGbters Wa
la bachelor D,8 cxnect 70 esco,,o' IN
the fair Castians unmarried Tboy Won
indeed a ioyial set and did nlrb L,
their talking and Einriuer ~ onI,,.c,' ~.
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