The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-02

for family use, for often parties of
fifteen or twenty go horseback riding
at the same time and the Aguila
estate is managed more or the comfort
Of the family than for profit, although
in O. financial way 1t is a very profit
able farm.
HOW SHE TREATS HER FRIENDS.
Madame Emilia is fond Of giving
presents. For instance, she has one
man busy all the year round making
baskets to be used in sending presents
to her friends and to be given to guests
with fruit when they leave. She raises
for sale 500, 900 oranges a year, but
$4,000 are always left on the trees for
the use Of herself and her guests. All
Of the mutton eaten on her estate is
Of her own raising and the 800 sheep
she keeps are chiefly for herself and
friends. She raises great quantities Of
onions, sQuashes and other vegetables
to give away and sends them to the
Santiago hospitals and her friends by
the oXcart load. / saw piles of such
vegetables stacked up for this purpose
back Of the house. There was enough
to have fed a good-size6 American
town for a year. Mountains Of pump
kins, great piles of squashes, bags Of
walnuts and carloads of corn all
awaiting their shipment as gifts. She
delights In the old ways of doing
things, and the table is chiefly supplied
from the estate, the ice cream being
made by means of snow brought from
the mountains in bags on the backs
Of her poems. It takes them several
days to make the journey and she
could import ice more cheaply by train
from Santiago, but she prefers the old
way rather than the new, and her es-
tate is kept as much as possible as it
in Of hnr cyir To oh
Of her many grandchildren has his own
pony, and I saw q lot of the little boys
and girls between the ages of four and
fourteen galloping about the place and
holding their seats like men and wom-
en-. The meals on such an estate are
of course excellent. You get up when
you feel like 1t and have your coffee
or tea and toast in your room. At II
or IL o'clock all Of the household meet
at breakfast. This is what we would
call q course dinner, beginning with
soup and ending with coffee. Then at
z o'clock there is dinner, with perhaps
a lunch or tea at o'clock and supper
| late In the evening. The Chilean fami-
| lies, as a rule, keep very late hours,
| and there are usually some at Aguila
who stay up chatting till long after
| midnight
NINE. COUSINO'S RANCH.
also paid visit during my stay at
| Santiago to the famous estate Of the
late Nine. Cousino, known as Mocu1
You have heard Of Nine Cousino She
has been much written about in the
newspapers as the richest woman Of
| the world the Chilean woman who had
millions of acres Of lands, mines Of
copper, silver and coal. towns and
factories, and an income Of millions q
year. These statements were much ex-
aggerated. Nine. Cousno was very
rich, but there are today women in
Chile who are richer than she ever was
She has, however, been heavy spend
er, and her estate, which through her
death In Paris a few months ago Is
now being settled up, will not aggre-
gate, 1 am told, ten millions Of dollars.
She was nevertheless O. remarkable
| woman and fond of all things modern.
| Mocul was one of her~beSt farms. It
contains about 5000 acres and cost
| when Senior Cousino bought 1t $500, 900.
l venture to say more than that amount
has ben spent upon 1t. and it Is now
valued at over q million. Upon 1t are
a hundred of the finest of bIooded
| horses, the choicest Of sheep and 200 of
the best cattle bred from imported
Durham stock. 1t has vineyard which