The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18
THE PoNpERous VEHICLE

the principal theatre was foored and car
peted, and the first tier of boxes, screened
with velvet hangings, served as dressing
| rooms; while flags of all nations gracefully
draped the upper galleries. Two fine bands
OF music were stationed at either end Of the
room. AT 10 O. clock hardly half dozen
persons were present; but at IL o'clock the
dancing began. A more brilliant company
could hardly be gotten together in any part
OF the world-off1cials, native and foreign,
IN their rich uniforms aud court dresses,
the beauty and fashion of Santiago attired
IN gauzes. laces and dainty silks made in
the latest Partisan fashions, and blaze of
diamonds that was fairly dazzling. The
| hgures were waltZes, mazurkas, gallops
and quadrilles, the latter with the ends and
sides sometimes doubled and trebled. AT
midnight room for the refreshment of tea
ana cakes was thrown open, and at o'clock
magnificent supper was served, consist
Ing OF every delicacy to be obtained in the
country. We retired shortly after q. M,
being among the first to go, but were urged
TO remain because another supper was
about TO be served. l should not omit to
mon ton that besides these frequent repasts
table on the first floor, 'for gentlemen
only" was spread with cold meats, wines.
liquors, cigars, ETC., and kept replenished
all night. But it does not require fiesta
to render the streets of Chile interesting to
foreigners; to US they are at all times
| PANORAMA OF STRANGE SIGHTS.
For example, here in the plaza are groups
of women selling shoes-a piece of cloth or
bit OF old carpet thrown upon the ground
near the curbstone and the vender sitting
on low stool with her stock in trade ar
ranged in big, shallow basket before her.
Her line includes womens CATERS in all
colors, children's slippers, and coarse bro
gaDs for men and boys. She sits here all
day long, shifting her stool to keep out of
the sun, and occasionally rssigning it to q
purchaser who wishes to try on a shoe.
Having no rent to pay, she can afford to
! undersell the merchants in shops by few
cents on each article. and publicity is no
drawback TO her class Of customers. Clat-
terlng down the street comes the water
carrier-a little donkey with wooden
frame on each side of him which sustains a
keg holding about eight gallons of water
The donkey has no bride, but is followed
by man with cruel goad, whose voice he
knows and breads. If you live upstairs (as
| everybody does who has second story,
the man ascends with one keg at a time and
pours il into your water barrel: but if on
the first floor, the donkey is driven through
the front door into the patio. After the
water is delivered and the kegs replaced,
the man mounts so far back on the donkey's
hind quarters thatit is hard to tell to which
animal the tail belongs; and away they go
on hard trot for new supply, the kegs
banging noisily in their frames and the
driver belaboring the donkey over one ear
or the other, as he desires him to turn to
the right or to the left Hardly has the
water carrier disappeared before the bread
man heaves in sight. In Chile, as in most
southern countries, the staff of life is not
baked in private houses, but is supplied
from public bakeries. Men on mules trav-
erse the streets, bringing bread of excellent
quality to peoples doors every morning.
The mules are equipped with two square
panniers, made of OK hide or canvas, and
they often carry baskets and bags full of
bread on top of these. The rider sits on the
mules shoulders with his legs dangling
among the loaves, and the entire establish
ment occupies nearly the width of
THE NARROW STREETS.
The milkman brings his milk in two small
! tin cans, suspended on either side of his
donkey; and often comes so fast and s far
that the fluid is partially churned into but
ter when you get it. Your laundress
fetches the clean clothes on her back, grasp.
ing the bands and holding the garments al
fu i lengths-shirts, drawers, skirts, dresses
so that they may not be wrinkled en- tran
stu, The other day l noticed donkey load
that excited my curiosity-dirty looking
Jumps OF something yellow; aud inquiry
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the country put up in the stomachs of cat
tie. We buy our butter in hogs bladders,
a skin at time. 1t Is very sweet, and the
method of preserving it is excellent-if we
could only know that the bladder had been
thoroughly cleaned. During their season
(Decemoer) straw berries are brought every
day to the door, and like all other fruits
hereabouts, are sold by number, never by
measure. AT first we are obliged to pay 81
per hundred strawberries, and later they
come down to real GO cents for the same
number. The CHILEAN strawberry is not
much like that of the north, here being very
large and pale RED in color, but deficient in
flavor.
At the close of all commercial transac-
tions it is the custom Of the country for the
seller to throw in little extra of his com
modify for what is called the llapa (pro-
nounced yah ah) answering to the Yankees
boot Chickens are brought to town tieC
together in punches by the legs, like onions
slung over the shoulders of the vendors
and peddled from door to door: and the
merchants ontiDually pinch the breasts Of
the poor fowls to assure people of theiI
flesh and tenderness.
At the theatre, where light opera is
usually on the boards and good music is the
rule, the gentlemen sally en- masse into the
vestioule between the acts to indulge in the
universal cigsrito. When the curtain il
about to rise, bell Is rung to recall them
and then for q few moments the house is 81
filled with smoke that one can hardly SET
across it.
AT THE CLOSE OF PERFORMANCE
all the gentlemen who have no ladies il
charge hurry into the vestioule and take W
their positions in rows, leaving a narrow
lane through which the ladies must pass
and stare at them with great earnestness
commenting freely and audibly upon theil
beauty and taste in dress. So far from
! thinking this an Importance, the ladie.
consider 1T complimentary, anG afterwards
repeat to one another the remarks they
have heard. Sundays and Thursdays ar
the fashionable nights, Sunday being th,
favorite, when the best pieces are rendered
Theatregoing, so universally INDUCED in
is an expensive amusement in this part o
the world. In Valparaiso the price for al
indifferently located box is SIC, with an ad
: ditional entrada, or entrance fee, or ST.
for each person who occupies it. Ia Santi
ago the prices of the Theatre Municipal ar
much higher, so that los ricos who design t
: 60 often with their families find it muc
cheaper to buy box by the year for som
hundreds of dollars. The boxes are sold q
J auction 20 the highest bidder on a certai
date at the beginning of season.
, FANNIE 3. WARD.
THOUSANDS OF SUFFERING WOMEN.
= Delicate women who complain of tire
nnlt 81, cniy RI aoi