Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17

| ter OF love than is generally thought. Inc
| men make good husbands and fathers, the
| parents love their children and the children
] show great affection for their parents. A
! child always kisses the hands of it's elder
! ly relatives and men often kiss the hands
| OF women as mark of respect.
| Some Features of Home Life.
t The average Brazilian woman does not
| spend much time on her dress before after
| neon. She is in fact little slouchy and
likes to take things easy. She often wears
a Mother Hubbard until noon or goes about
in a dressing sack and black skirt. She
| has a cup of coffee and a roll upon rising
| and does not eat again until the noon break
! fast: She frequently appears at breakfast
| with her hair down. and after the siesta
| at the window.
| You may see women looking out of the
= Brazilian windows at all hours of the day.
| They have cushions made to fit the WIN
| dow sills upon which they rest their arms
| and they often have padded stools or
| benches upon which they kneel while look
| ing out. The Brazilian women, l venture,
| spend more time on their knees than any
| other women in the world; but alas! it is
| not in prayeri
| / have met a number of the ladies dur
! ing my stay in Brazil and l have dis
covered one way to their hearts. This is
| through their mouths. Each of them has
| thirty teeth, more less and all of
| them sweet Some of them would sell their
souls for American candy, and they all
! like choice corrections. They are fond of
| rich desserts and one of their favorite dish
| es is a cake made of the yolk of eggs and
/ -four. 1t Is a kind of sponge cake of the
lishtest nature. 1t is eaten with melted
sugar poured over it, and it soakS I'D the
strip like a sponge. Ounce marmalade
is another fayorite dish, and there is
guava cheese, exceedingly sweet, which is
eaten at almost every meal.
A Land of Peddlers
Brazilian women seldom go out shopping,
and in neither Para nor Manaos is there
a store with a bargain counter Many
kinds of goods are sold by peddlers who
carry packs on their backs and go through
the streets slapping their yard sticks to-
gether. When woman hears the slapping
she beckons to them to come in This Gus
tom is changing slightly now but until
lately almost all dry goods were sold in
this way.
And still some of the Brazilian stores
here are very large. There are establish
ments at Para which carry quite as big
stocks of goods as any store in a city of
similar size in the United States. The
goods are brought here from Europe, with
the exception of a few coming from our
country.
l find this town of Manaos interesting
1t is a thousand miles inland in the very
heart of the great Amazon forest. There
are woods about it so dense that monkeys
could travel thousand miles through
them, jumping from branch to branch and
never once touching the ground They are
so dense that you could not possibly go
from one place to another except by the
streams. 1t would take you day with an
ak to make five miles. The country about
here is very wild 1t is in fact one of the
least known parts of the world, and Man
aos is the metropolis. being the chief city
of a region hundreds of thousands of
square miles in extent.
Manaos is on the Rio Negro about ten
miles from where it flows into the Amazon
In coming up the Amazon as we aDDroach-
ed the Rio Negro / could see where the
latter river Joined it without lifting my
eyes from the waters. The Rio Negro is
as black as your hat. The Amazon is as
yellow pea soup. For about two miles
below the mouth of the Rio Negro the wa
tiers of the Rio Negro and the Amazon flow
side by side without mixing. Our steamer
for time cut the joining of the waters SO
that side Of the ship the stream
was as yellow as a lions name while on
the other it had the panther black of the
Rio Negro. A little below this the two
colors disappeared, the waters of the Rio
Negro having been swallowed up in the
mighty flood of the Amazon
The Metropolis of the Upper Amazon.
AS we steamed we passed out of the
Amazon and into the wide mouth of the Rio
Negro. We were now sailing through a Jet
| black stream. Our steamer churned the
water into foam and it looked like boiling
black molasses. A sailor dropped a bucket
over the side and caught up a gallon for
me to examine. In the bucket it looked
brown, but when 1 took it up in glass it
seemed almost clear.
The Rio Negro is an immense stream. It
is very wide at the mouth, and at first sight
it seems almost as large as the Amazon it
self. 1t drains a vast region and is so con-
nected with the Orinoco by the Cassiquare
river that you can enter the Orinoco at its
Tph IN tha 10
Negro and the Amazon.
AS 1t nearS the Amazon the Rio Negro
increases in size. A large part of it's lower
course is formed of a succession of lakes
some of which are from 20 to 30 miles wide.
Its flow is not very rapid, and it's ordinary
depth is from 100 to $50 feet. 1t has numer-
Gus sand bars, which hinder navigation at
very low water, but during the rainy sea-
son it rises from 30 to 40 feet and floods a
large part of its basin. At its mouth there
are high bluffs lining the banks. These are
spotted with cacao plantations. back of
which is a dense forest. There are numer-
Gus palm trees. and among them, now and
then. matched hut upon piles.
A little further up on the north bank
upon hill is the city of Manaos. The town
slopes from the river covering the hills at
the back. 1t looks like a large town from
the steamer. AT first you see only maze
of white-colored one and two-story build
ings rooted with red brick tiles.
AS you come nearer the houses near the
realize that they are large business estab-
ishments. You see numerous fine build
tngs, and out of the mass notice structure
somewhat like the pension building at
Washington, which is topped with a great
dome. covered with porcelain tiles. That is
the theater of Manaos- 1t will seat 1000
people, and 1t is finer than many so-called
good theaters of the United States The
theater is partially supported by the gov
eminent. and troupes are brought here from
Para and other Brazilian ports. 1t is not a
one-night stand, for 1t takes 1000 miles to
get to and from 1t. 50 that the troupes usu-
ally stay week or so. With US came an
American circus, which Is to get a big
guarantee from the government for show
ing a month in Manaos.
An Ocean Port.
Maraos Is an ocean port thousand miles
inland from the Atlantic. Suppose the big
Atlantic liners could sail right across the
United States to Chicago, and you have
about the situation Of Maraos in respect to
the sea-
My steamer drew sixteen feet 1t was an
English ship. which had come from New