The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-11

hostelries, you would find the menu about
SIS follows: Soup, made of chopped CLAIMS,
beef kidneys, cabbage and onions; the
lungs of fat pigs, broiled; boiled sea-crabs,
garniShed with
THE GRILLED ESTRAILs OF PIGS;
roast "sea urchins," served in the purple
shells; fried fish, with sauce prepared from
oX-feet; roast turkey, stuffed with onions;
spices, red peppers and corianders: fried
peas, pepper salad, bread, cheese and yerba
mate; the tea of Paraguay, slipped, boiling
not, through silver tube the size OF y
straw, You can take the whole course,
standing, for the modest sum of about 81;
or, II more economically inclined, you may
ind cheaper alternative on the back side
OF the same tent, where, for % cents, you
can join the family dinner of boiled meat
and vegetables, all eating from the same
wooden bowl, and an extra medic Is cents
Will secure you two Or three glasses of
wine with which to wash it down. Every
tent Is ball room aud saloon, as well as
hotel, where two or three young women
sing the plalntive airs of the cuaca, accom-
panying their voices with guitars, while
couple after couple come solemnly forward,
twlri their handkerchiefs and dane,
and the bystanders keep time by the
clapping of hands. Casks, barrels and
bottles of wine are strewn all about;
and so, while some trip the light fantas-
tic, others drink; and they in turn dance
and drink again, until they all become too
top heavy for further effort. Here comes
handsome country girl in high heeled
shoes and close fitting gown of navy blue,
with black eyes and cheeks Ike roses. She
twists her handkerchief in the quaca, with
young rustic in Poncho, boots and spurs,
until some old woman remarks: "Oh, she
must have her wine to keep her heels
going" $50 she must" eshoes the rustic,
and he fills goblet to the brim, which she
losses OFF, laughing, at single gulp. Other
SWANS come in for dance with the same
damsel, she is so pretty and sprightly, and
each admirer must treat her TO big glass
of the rosy" Her heels fly fast and her
tongue faster; but presently she steps
high as If the floor suddenly rose up to
meet her, and though still showing pearly
teeth in smile and coquetishly waving
her handkerchief, she staggers and sinks
down gracefully in corner. "Pobracita,"
poor dear thing, says somebody, "She
needs little Sleep" We look into the
next tent just in time to see
REGULAR SAMPSON
OF a man, with head like bullock's,
! tumbling down among empty casks and
| other rubbish, where men and women are
already piled IN drunken slumber. Scores
of people on every side are in the same
stage of intoxicatiou; but there is no dis
order nor quarrelling, nor loud talking.
The wine being the pure juice of the grape,
1t produces no evil effects but temporary
stupor, which soon wears off.
For the amusement OF those not caring
to dance, the municipality has rugged up
several playthings. One of them is called
d rompe cabeza, ''break the head" and
seems to be we'll named. 1t is a block of
1 L. No -l,-
about seven feet long by one foot wide,
poised in perpendicular position about
eight feet from the ground, and so per
fectly balanced that the lightest touch
causes it to revolve. Somebody places a
real on the solid framework at one end,
and tells the boys that be who crawls
across the balanced triangle may have the
money. About one boy in a dozen sue
ceeds in winning the prize, the others be-
ing thrown to the ground with more or less
violence, to the unbounded delight of the
populace. There is also a pole, planted
firmly in the ground, straight, smooth
and sixty feet long. This is
smeared. with grease to the very top, where
a fat looking purse is suspended, said tC
contain large sum of money, to be given
to whoever gets it by climbing. There is
not boy in Conception but thinks it worth
trying for, to the ruin OF numberless suits
crowd that it is not an imposslbility tt
climb "that there pole" Another tells Of
a man in Santiago who climbed hundreds Of
CREASED poles in the course of long ant
useful life, by merely rolling himself il
sand; and finally at the top of one he found
a purse con tanning ten thousand dollars il
bank checks. Immediately every boy
rushes off, and presently returns covered
with sand and dirt. The crowd increases
to thousands, and the grease is rapidly
disappearing from the lower half of tht
pole. Finally, after several hundred dol
lars worth OF Sunday garments have beer
hopelessly ruined, a ragged urchin, will
arms and legs tied up in sand paper, skin
up the pole like squirrel and comes dowI
with the coveted package, which is fount
to contain exactly one Chilian paper dollar
worth at present about twenty cents il
United States money.
FANNIE b. WARD.