The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-01
IN OLD CARRIAGE
AND HOW THE GOOD HOUSE.
WIVES KEEP HOUSE.
Rent 10 Cheap you may get . Mansion for
Six Donarsl per Month-The, Young
Women are DECIDEDLY Hands6me and
shapely. -.


= IN 4;
Every Thursday all the streets leading into
this plaza are thronged with carts and oxen,
mules and muleteers, soldiers and wander
Ing MINISTRIES, peddlers, male and female, and
beggars innumerable, and of wretchedness
understandable, mostly cripples. whose dis
torted bones and gaping sores are their not
Improbable stock in trade. ss.s.s.O, ~.
The usual conglomeration Of articles rs Of
fered for sale on tho plaza, piled up in, booths
or spread out in the sun. There are rainbow
hued dress goods, brought over seas; gor-
geous shawls, woven in nearby Guatemala,
and Eaudy zarapes Of home manufacture;
brigand-like jackets, fairly bristling with
Euperhuous buttons, and wonderful collec-
ton OF, OK hide, handmade shoes and Sandals
There are cocoanuts in ox-hide hampers,
which bare-legged fellows have brought ON
their backs many weary miles, and are glad
TO sell for cent apiece, and fruits OF every
variety that grow in the tropics, with few
Of the North, raised in the upland regions.
There are Egyptian like jars and water bot
ties OF dark red pottery, so quaint that we long
to possess them all, and drinking cups made
Of the shells of the calabash fruit Ia kind
q gourd), carved with surprising delicacy
OF touch and richness of design. In other
stalls English calico may be found; also cut
lery and crockery. The United States con-
tributes little beyond a few notions" and
plugs Of Vissinia tobacco. Carriage herself
furnishes excellent soft hats. made from plta
fiber, and :. good deal Of gold and silver fila
gree-work IN chains, brooches, bracelets, and
mall trinkets-the most beautiful among the
latter being tiny baskets constructed with
wonderful nicely and filled with lustrous
pearls from the GULF Of Nicoya.
Women Octogenarians at 40.
Among the infinite variety of fruits ere
blackberries, the first have seen in Central
America and potatoes, even more rare, ready
cooked and steaming hot, not bigger than
hickory nuts but good as any Irishman could
desire;e and edible palm tops, resembling
curly lettuce. which, by the way make the
most fragrant and delicious Of salads. ...
In these Catholic countries the ladies wear
their plainest clothes to church and their
brightest and best to market and opera, bull
fight and promenades, their arms and Shout
ders protected by the ARREST of sunshades
Each sonora is followed to markedly female
servant, who carries a basket on her plump
brown arms, or may be wooden tray on her
head, to contain her mistress purchases. The
country womec evidently believe in beauty
unadorned," de universal garb Of the mes
tiZas (of mix ID Indian and Spanish blood be-
Ing a single short, ,scant skirt, over very
low-necked, sleeveless chemise.
Squatted behind their serones Of fruits and
vegetables, their wedges of goats milk cheese
and cones of coarse brown sugar. or double
rows of bottles Of guarapc, the unfermented
Juice OF sugar cane, they expatiate upon.t the
merits CT their mercha disc in,s hrIl hut soft
vowe!ed CastiNaBo that wheedles the last
penny out Of your purse. The young women
OF Costa RIGA are decidedly handsome; OF tho
dark, piquant sort, With regular features,
clear olive complexionN. fIEl, round figures,
and midnight eyes which <here is no describ-
ing The exhilarating air OF this high alti-
tudetones down somewhat the carnation rich
ness Of the Spanish blood in lips and cheeks,
but adds new luster TO- the brilliant eyes. Sad
to say. there are some notified faces even
among young girls from dread skin disease
peculiar to the tropical mountains. and not
few cases Of horrible goi:re; but beauty and
shapeliness are the, rule. The old women.
however, including some on the sunny eide Of
40 years. are extremely ugly. Why, in this
charming climate, females become octogen-
arlanD 1t an age which in noIthee~ regions
has only served to give color and dignity to
perfected womanhood is one of natures in
scrutable mysteries. Perhaps it is as much
due to excessive eating and smoking, little
exercise, and no thinking az all, as to the
fact Of very early maturity.
.. FANNIE BRIGHAM WARD.