Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-11

the loading OF this fruit Ia one Of The
great sights Of the voyage.
Aa We came up TO Asunclon We saw
at every town mountains of oranges
on the shores with hundreds OF Para
quay girls kneeiing before them and
putting them In baskets. while other
hundreds were Carrying them ON to the
steamers.
LOADING ORANGES AT VILLA
Pillar
The scene Il one that you cannot have
outside this country. stop with me AZ
Villa Pillar and look at II. villa Pillar
has about ten thousand people. " W
"a town on the east bank of the rnra
quay river q day or SOS ride below
Aruncion. As the steamer stops at the
landing we notice that every garden
has ita orange tree and that such trees
shade the streets. We see oN-earta
coming In from the orchards crcaking
under their golden loads. Each cart
holds about 1000 oranges. piled loosely
within Il like 30 many potatoes. The
driver directs his oxen to the piles OF
oranges ON the banks. backs his cart
M to them and dumps cut the fruit
Just as our workmcn dump dirt when
repairing the roads. Oranges are In.
deed worth little more than dirt hero.
That whole cart full will sell Tor -,
nnd We can buy all we want for two
cents.
And s,ill every orange IL counted
Those women on their knees are put
ting the fruit into the baskets. They
count as they work. and u careful tall
~ " kept.
The oranges are carried on board 10y
women who balance their loads on
their heads and walk over RanRway
to the steamer There are hundred
women NJ this work now. and the ship
IN already 80 loaded with oranges that
"a wire netting has been stretched
around Its outside like fence and the
fruit piled up within. The deck IN NO
nllcd with oranges. In fact. that the
Sailors are moving about on boards.
which have been nailed M above u.
stop and take a look at the girls,
They are passing 90 and from the
bank over that roadway " boards 800
feet long. which has been built upon
trcntlof out 10 the steamers. Each has
round BASKET carefully poised on her
head. and above these the golden
oranges rise. Tho girls arc dressed In
white gowns, And the breeze which
r,vecpa up the river wraps thriF thin
skirts about their 1.-THE forms. And
rtlil they walk without touching their
burdens. and the shaking Of the plnnia
aud the breeze from the river does not
disturb them.
PRETTY GIRLS WHO SMOKE AID
CHEW.
IA you look you cannot help but nd
miro the typical pafnguayan maiden.
She IL 10 well formed and she walks
like a goddess. When young she II as
plump NJ a partridge In autumn and
were II not for some OF her ways you
might fall In love.
To an American her nttrnctlyencsa
" spoiled by the use OF tobacco. have
thought until now that there was ma
greater beauty destroyer than tho gum.
chewing Of the American girl. but tle
smoking Of cigars. an II prevails among
Paraguay women. II far worse. The
Paraguay maiden smokes like "a Chin
ncy. fhe bcKirr TO use tobacco when
she begins to wear dresses. ana cvcn
before. for you may sec nAkei girls II
six, eight and ten with cigars IN then
mouths. ! have seen scores OF little
girls Of seven ana eight smoking cigars
almost m blk around rs their wrists,
and aA To old women. II IN hard To ind
one out IN the country who dorF not
smoke from morning TN night.
speak. OF course. OF the women % the
common people. Those xho are not
actually smoking have cigars between
their teeth. which they chew wiihou,
lighting for hours at n time. Many
make their own cigars. ana tobacco ID
80 cheap here that you can Sc a dozen
fairly good cigars for ave cents and
leaf tobacco In sold for few cents 4
pound
THEY ARE BUSINESS woMEN.
T1s Paraguay girls rcmlai me ~ the
rlr's Of Japan. They look NOT unlike
them The features ~ manY Paraguay :
ana n-i half-Japancac. and their luNi J.
ant black hair IL Of the sanie "haf,o-
ter rs that you see In Japan. In the
back districts they have the same de-
lightful disregard for clothing. Very
young girls. as | have said. and often
some ~ the age OF fourteen, wear moth
ing whatever. The pnraguaynn women
are not afraid Of strangers. They arr
good nnturcd, and VIII laugh and joke
for you Just ms readily as the Yum
Numr on the east coast OF Asia.
The Japanese women are good bust
ness women. This In also true OF the
Paragraphs. n you would see smart
women traders. come and spend an
hour with me In tho market OF Azun-
cion.
II II situated In the heart ~ the city.
II covers an entire square, and II looks
more like monastery than place for