The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-23

by an elevated dias. stood the only articles
OF furniture in the immense chamber Of
state-two life sized portraits, more
or less "works of art'i by native
artists, of Dom Pedro II and
the empress. The president of the prov
ince solemly took his stand upon one side
of the pictures and the archbishop on the
other side, tianked by such lesser digni-
tRries as the chief justice, the general-at-
guard, etc. Then with gravest for
mality, the procession advanced, single
file, down the center of the room, the con-
suls coming first and strictly according to
the rules of precedence. At the foot Of the
dias each person paused and made three
profound salaams-hrst to the portraits,
then To the authorities on the right, then
to those on the left, and retreated, craw-
fish fashion, out by side door, not daring
to turn his back upon those ''coun terfeit
preseItimentso Of royalty-and the cortejo
was over. When all had thus salaamed
themselves out of the august presence, the
president, with few distinguished guests
whom he had especially invited. stood in
the windows of the palace and reviewed
the troops as they dehied before him,
amid martial music and the booming of
cannon. AT night, or rather next morning
the celebration was concluded by the ineyi-
table fireworks and brilliant ball In the
theater of "Our Lady of Peace, - attended
by ell the beauty, wealth and fashion of
the vicinage.
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN or PARA.
The ladies of Para are as renowned for
their beauty as the belle Of Lima, but one
seldom gets glimpse of any female mem
beers of the aristocracy on the streets, for
they live as secluded, almost, as their
Moorish great grandmothers, even taking
= na,~ af~ in Nplx
church, the theater and cortejos they may
be SEEM and then the curious stranger is
apt to be disappointed. Though their
black eyes are beautiful, and hair glossy
and abundant, their features are Portuguese.
and compilations generally the color OF an
old shoe. while the majority show un-
Ia istakable traces of negro or Chinese
blood, or an unpleasant mixture of many,
nationalities. And like their sisters 10 all
Lot countries who lead lives of inactivity,
they are inclined to excessive fat and shape
lessness. TO the growing of mustaches and
q tendency to greasiness, at an ace when
Northern women have hardly reached their
prime. STRANGE RACE ADVENTURES.
Transplanted Portuguese civilization
hss foUrished well under the blue skies
and in the genial climate of this portion of
the new world; and the Brazilian Indians
"A more gentle and tractable race than
the savages Of North America--took SO
kindly to their conquerors that a gradual
smalgamation of the Latin and aboriginal
races has taken place. Had the country
been colonized with Anglo-Saxons instead,
such a fusion would not have been pos
sible. Portugal and Spain had felt the in
fuence OF the Arabs, and their tawny
skins and other personal characteristics
differed from the Indians only in degree.
So the mixed brown and white mingled
easily with the darker shade of brown;
and having been since largely edulterate6
with African blood, not to mention Mon
Rolian and every other nation under the
sun-the term ''black and tan" is no mis-
homer hereabouts.
OF the twelve million people now occupy
ing Brazil, not quite one third are "Caui
caslans," and in the majority OF individual
cases they are so largely ''mixed'' as
hardly to deserve the name. Another third
are negroes; less than one-third are In
dams, and the rest come under the general
head of Metis, or mixed beyond classifica-
tion. The frst-the educated. generally
wealthy and comparatively white Portu-
guese-B raziIians. Spanish Brazilians, and
Saxon Brazilians, whether planters, poll
ticians. merchants or gentlemen Of leisure