The Republican journal., 1900-04-05
Last Hours in Seville.

,-.tt.. with Marvellous Dexterity.-
,,Iat CAV tsrisettes are to Paris, the Cigar
..i,.t 10 spain. They are Much Addict
u4.ernity and AS Full of Mischief as
ttar,ntu at Long Ago.
s..,7lI 4 arrespondence of The Journal
-,,ll.r. spain, Fec, Is, 1900. TIE
Dr.. AT hand when we must bid adiOs to
..,, a and move on to other scenes-with
0 be 1t confessed, for there is not
...-lDl city on the face of the earth
......Ii possesses 50 potent though intangi-
...,. charm. Just what it is that thus
......,tr.s the stranger and seems to bind
M loser the longer he stays, nobody
ala> to explain. 1t cannot be the
delightful though it is, because
4c many other places where the
uet, southern winter presents
perfection Of weather. Perhaps
'.r saNm Of antiquity, the glamour
..IcI greatness, the romance and
DroGhs and Romans Moors and
4 who have successfully played
l.N century parts and passed into
10y shadows. each leaving traces
plain that he who runs may
mod it may be the spice of peril
.e especially to hated Amer-
...- .p lie attraction.
A5y, die best time TO visit south
u the early spliug; because
. tAe heat is intense, in autumn
liable to be troublesome, and in
fhe marble floors and absence of
.- ~mctimes render the great rooms
. .ud comiortlesS. But il is infinitely
.. fo come at any season than not to
All all Whatever time of year your
. aue visit to the Paris exposition
YOU will be well repaid for con
ug your journey down through the
.-u Peninsula. though to do so you
rtail gay Paree"' by half. In this
rai- spain, February is like New Eng
.m May. Roses are blooming every
Where. orange trees bearing flowers and
40 the same STEM bananas, dates
l. hang temptingly within reach,
l ,d.h grapes as no Northern sun can
l.. may be had for the gathering. The
.u..A peasant is very poor and unthrifty
|ora vino does not contrive to own few
VT soil in which to grow choice
h.l.l rape vine. He refrigerates his
"a say, by erecting over the vines
.ae stalk arbor, upon which he sus-
'be picked clusters for winter use
l4 t0I months in the current of cool
the pale green lunches remain as
and full of flavor as when first
until grapes rlpen again. In this
0anner they are preserved for the
market, SO that in Spain there is
u off season. for grapes.
easy to see why Seville is so in
upt in mid summer The imme-
.auoundings are fiat and marshy,
lr tnclrcling mountains, though
N lilv effective in the landsc lpe,
lights and shadows and dim.
.. lp, bending with the horizon, are
i ul to benefit the city by their
".. ~ is sand to he an actual fact
. 0. layorite way Of cooking an ONE
-ril!e is to expose it a few minutes
day rays OF the summer sun.
.u, the houses are built on purpose
sind OF weather, and one suffers
.lyeuieuce from the heat. if he
easily, as the natives do. The
YoIs were wise in their generation
spared for hot weather, and though
.ore than SIX hundred years since
was taken from them, their style
4tecture is still faithfully copied.
HE sights OF the town, the Moorish
re most interesting. You find i'm
specimens of them farther north
ada Toledo and even Madrid-but
= pre-eminently the place where
.iio is at its best. Even the ordinary
e> are Oriental in plan and admirably
H here are patios of all sizes and
'fe~ Of splendor, from the several
paved court yards of the newest
a. the meanest and dirtiest in the
e"lSh quarter. Each shows some
-i 1T the individual taste of its owner.
zoe never tires of peeping into them
Nl-- walking along the streets. That is
lone, though the tall gates opening
400 the Zaguan-or short, paved hall,
Va trOm the sidewalk to the patio-is
IVA closed and locked, for the lace
'fi + its elegantly wrought and gilded
]l not much hindTance to the view.
~ be plder houses the kitchens are Stu
"'N use to the front doors, just off the
guam, giving passers by the full benefit
garlic, grease and saffron odors, but
Fv'rnnng the diffusion of the same
"'lelh the patios and sleeping rooms.
a 'lneSt courts are hoored with marble.
usually If various colors and laid in pat
A1' he walls are inlaid with elegant mo
and marble columns on every side
-l9ii the inner projections of the upper
Nn1 In the centre is a fountain. sur
''N4.d by flower beds blossoming vines
around the columns, scores of bright
'-s'u birds sing in the wicker cages,