Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-02

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shallow hole, among suicides. jews. hereucs
paupers and other poor outcasts beiieved'to d
beyond the pale of Christian charity, snt
even then not left long to repose II
peace-barely long enough for the com
parative safety of the living. After few week
what remained of you unconsumed by TN
quick lime that is literally thrown IN AZ th'
time OF lnterment (the only liberal thing aoou
~ would be pitched into the general charne
heap of detached bOnes-heads without trunk
| and trunks without heads-to await the semi
annual burning. .'Oh schwer ests, in del
fremde sterben unbewrint;' but nobody car
realize how sad it is to die unwept IN foreigr
lands until he finds himself i'll danger Oh try
ing it
BEAUTIES OF RIO BAY.
am not going to bore you with description
of the unrivsled beauties of Rios bay, fol
other travellers have done it, time and time
again. Enhanced by history aud tradition,
I they are even more enhancing than when the
/ ancient mariners discovered them. mat Jan u
airy day. $50 years ago, When. sailing through
the narrow gateway from the ocean into the
/ bay, they fancied themselves entering the
/ mouth of a mighty river that led TO the en-
chanted land and christened it Rio de Janeiro,
River Of January from the month in which
the event occurred. There Is the
Pao de Assucar Portuguese for sugar
loafO, barring the entrance as 1t Rises
! abruptly from the sea 1,212 feet; the
! Gavea, with its natural fortlrication on top,
which human foot has never scaled; Corcovado.
| the colossal human back" Botofoga, llha
des Clobras. the rocky island of snakes;
Ilha dos Ratios, island of rats" and
all the rest of them. inclosed az by wall
within a misty background OF mountains
draped with eternal yerdure; the white city,
| with its countless towers in the foreground =
surrounded by an amphithea;er OF ragged
heights so dark and frownlng that they exag-
gerats the calm of the water and the smile of
perpetual midsummer. There are plenty OF
pictures to show you how il looks better than
mere words could do. Yet no picture can do
faintest justice to tropical scenery. The con-
tour, and even the colors may be reproduced.
but 1t lacks the full glory of equatorial sun and
sky, the living green, the evershitting clouds.
which in these regions Of strong contrasts dis
tinctly change the tint OF foliage and flowers
wherever their shadows fall. the Understandable
glow and intensity of animal and vegetable life,
the hot air that visibly throbs and palpitates
Some of US, feeling all this for the first time.
realize in the depths of our souls that some
mistake in natures plan cast our lines in the
cold and colorless north, or is it the
natural mans" vague, instructive,
recognition OF the birthplace of his
kind! Gazing at the imperial palms of Rio,
than which none finer can be found in the
world, one remembers that all the traditions of
earth speak or Paradise as place where palm
trees grow. Whoever heard of heaven or the
Garden of Eden located where winter reigns
during half the year? The most unpoe teal of
Yankee preachers tell of the palm trees of
ParadiseH-not altogether. let us hone. ON ac-
count of the pleasant alIiteratiops-and The dea r
Old orthodox hymus describe its climate as
high, eternal noon"
EVERYTHING Is INTENSE"
But Brazil must be a long way from Paradise
or the place has greatly changed since Ewes
peccadillo. The flowers have no perfume. the
birds no song death is frichtfully busy every.
where. and the people-welI, the kiut,est thin
to be said of them is that the majority are no,
such as one would like to associate with through
eternity A tangled mass of wild, luxuriant
vegetation crowds close to the city. full of birds
OF lhe most orilhaht Piumase, ougs .hat 1901
nnJnIs and cold that mike the woods annea,
ablaze. There are no delicate hues nor gentl.
tints, but everything is intense. The whole
country seems painted red and yellow unpro
tected from the scorching RAYS of the SUM- be
cause the palm trees grow too tall to shadow
their round, smooth trunks. like exaggerated
tele phone poles, towering perhaps 200 feet from
the ground before the lirst great leaf shoot,
out. Alas! The trail of the serpent is over il
-" in fact as well as figuratiyely MANY Of
the gem-like bugs are fatal in their sting, and
you never touch a leaf or flower without the
uncomfortable consciousness that under il
death NAV be lurking in some cuise.
ago in the hot lands of Mexico we had made
the acquaintance of pretty respectable speci
mens-so far as size goes-of those hairy abom
nations. but none of them could hold a candle
to those that abound in Brazil. Ever since We
came there has been one lurking in our hotel
bed room visible only at intervals when. as if an.
mated with an finnish desire To torment stranp.
ers he will dart from some unknown sourc.
and scud across the floor rolled up in q brown
woody ball large as u hens egg The instant
his spider shin appears we rush franticaliy n
the bell rope and summon the servants when
a general hunt is inaugurateti but ALWAYS to M
purpose. for the wretch puts himself out OF
sight like second harlequin.
o,,, COON ,
49,
Inc very pes' ADVICE can oHer 10 the unini'
tiated coming to Brazil is this: Never step out
of bed slipperless in the dark nor nut bare
foot down by day without first cooking sharn
To where il ia going nor don vonr bose nor
shoes nor any other article of clothing without
frat treating il like a bottle of medicine ..to he
we'll shaken before taken" Never get into he'd
without first inspect,np the curtaips ami Iook
ing carefully between the sheets and under tbs
pillows. Never poke careless fiupers under !
liable spread or rug or into any darkened cor.
ner nor rashly walk INTO a tnicLet or clnmp
of flowers or even among rank yrasI
Never take active exercise in the hotties,
mart of the dav nor exno.e vour.elf 10 tbs
DRINK water when Won are heated or les
w,ter at any time. Fsehew bananas and MOS,
Anti. "a Won wouid 40 mucb arsenic when'
ever Won meet an oyerpoweriny stencil in this
and that will Le NJ a,,oost 49, .,a,, i;
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