The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-08-09
A MEXICAN FETE.


Picturesque Costumes. Pretty Women and
Dancers Make Dazzling Picture.
The Mexican population wear their
native ress-bell-crowned hat serape
and pantaloons open In the outer seam
of the legs from the waist, faced with
silk and laced, with tiny bell buttons
on the edges. few of these appear
on the streets of the Mexican portion
of the city to give the Americans a
view of what Mexico was before they
invaded this Eden Of rural happiness.
But in the evening at the batle these
ancient costumes are much in evidence.
The ladies also overhaul their ancient
camphor-wood boxes and bring to light
their beautiful dresses Of old, worn by
their ancestors at court and military
balls at the capitals of Los Angeles and
Monterey. Their dresses, Of which
there seem to be only a few In exist
ence, are OF red, green OF yellow silk
or a white lawn skirt over red flannel
petticoat7 a red, blue or green sash de-
pending from the right shoulder, across
the bust TO the left waist, where IL Is
Topped with flowers to match The
dresses have very short sleeves. The
hair. black as midnight, hangs loosely
and Is sometimes braided into coils
In the forehead is a golden cross,
horseshoe and sometimes a serpent of
silver-the Aztec emblem.
The cachuca, bolero, iota and other
dances, Spanish figures, are danced,
much to the amusement of the Ameri-
can visitors. The sweet, soft, sensuous
music is frequently .deadeEed by the
discharge of musketry ON the outside
by the patriotic Juarez guards, who
deem it necessary to keep up the din
all night Mexicnns like a great deal
| of noise, as well as display. and at
these independent celebrations there
is an unusual amount of both. The
old custom of breaking casQueronis
over senor's head is also kept up. A
casqueroni is an egg shell with the
| blown IN. When senorita wishes to
show her admiration for senor she
smashes one of these over hts thick
head of hair, OF head of thick hair,
whichever it may be- This Is com
pliment and he must ask her hand-or
waist-in the next walta- At the close
of the ball next morning tho officer Of
| the day in his flaming Uniform makes
fiamboyant speech and announces
that the day of independence" has
closed. -Philadelphia Times.
|
Dogs That Love Music.
Dogs have most acute ears in detect
ing differences in the quality Of sound,
said musician the other day. have
at home large Newfoundland which
is great lover of music. No matter
in what portion of the house he may be,
he always comes to me when ! begin
TO play, lying close to the piano.
have an old organ. 1t Is one of those
instrument with many stops and but
| few good qualities. l think have been
able after much endeavor to dtstin-
guish two different qualities of tone in
all of the long row of stops. but my
dog made 1t apparent to me that my
ears were not as acute as HIS play
for variety upon the organ, notwith-
standing its being antiquated, and my
dog seems TO enjoy this as much as the
piano, all except one stop. Whenever
| pull that stop out he rises 10 his feet
| suddenly and commences to bark and
growi at me In a most vicious manner,
sometimes biting at the organ. Now,
TO my ear that stop makes no difference
in the sound of the organ. Ihave tried
hard TO detect the distinctive quality
which aggraTates the dogs nature, but
L
the old fellow by commencing tune
upon one stop and suddenly pulling out
| the obnoxious one. He never fails to
| Just the same.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
BOSTON BROWN BREAD.
| Il Must Not Be COMPOUNDED with the "Gra-
ham Bread" Now sold
The bread which has always been
known here as Boston brown bread"
was baked all over New England long
before the Graham bread came into
use there, and was not a substitute for
Mr.. Graham's loaf Of unbolted -four.
The Boston brown bread. according to
the almanacs OF the Yankee farmers, Is
composed OF these materials: Rye end
Indian, with very little nolasses,'
and it is the last ingredient that gives
| 1t a dark color II is q wholesome bread
| when rightly prepared
In ell the old-fashioned houses Of
Yankeeland. says the New York Sun,
the baking used to be done IN big ovens.
II was after everything else had been
cooked that the brown LOAF, the Indian
pudding, the plum pudding, and tho
red Jar OF beans were put In the oven,
where they were left for the plight
There are plenty Of people yet living
| who etoutly maintain that the primi-
tive way Of preparing these nutritious
articles Of food was fur better than any
Of the new ways
Graham bread Is another kind Of
thing, and Is made simply OF unbolted
-four. like the wheaton bread which
woe eaten eges ago. It IS called afte1
the American ''diet reformer," Rcp
Sylvester Graham, who began to edvo-
cate the use of it In the first half Of this
century, and created quite 0 stir by bis
argumente against the ordinary white
bread OF the bakers shops In other
days, Graham bread was often spoken
ot scornf,llly as bran bread" and the
people who ate It or upheld It were
dubbed '.bran bread philosophers.
Horace Greeley wss one Oh these people.
The Old Boston brown loaf was never
popular beyond the boundaries Of New
England
A GREAT JUMPER.
George washington would BE . Ch3na-
pson Nowadays
/ There is an athletic record which,
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