The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-15

III tAA4S dressed iallL the tG0ljiC anu the
sleeFes We came out upon field il
Was q pie OF Dig ysii9W RuHi l II
was ike glimpse of the Fowler neigh
borhood or a visit down through the ma
pies over Rinker ford.
There are meadow larlxs here but their
notes are not so plaintve as are those IN
lated out of the Spanish into English they
would sound more homely and sweet. But
else here in southern California. mucn
better than our things but stu foreign
and 1argory. The horses are Sucker and
better set up and cleaner linbed than the
Kansas horses. There are no steers mere
ali day we saw only Mr.. and Mrs. Cow.
The meat comes from Armours in Kansas
At the curio store in the little Mexican
town where we spent the day there We're
three girls who Jared the theory serious
" They had on pretty white thin shirt
and had oblique eyebrows and talked Mex
lean A he greaser in high collar how
of the girls didn't fiirt with the tourists.
The girls We're humming the air OF the
breath, and those Of our party VINO know
such things say that the girls had blue
set covers American looking gIrls--a liz
tie prettier than the girls at Newman 8
store ana the Racket and the Boston ana
as pretty as any at Rorapaugn 5. Iney
were polite to a degree. One of them sent
out Tor cup of water for a thirsty kan
san. winch IS probably more than the girls
in ROrabaugh's would do for a stranger
who hadn't spent a penny. and then went
able These girls seemed to put the west
ern theory of the plain Mexican girl into
retirement. But it didn't The irish priest
who knew their folks said that the girls
father is a Belgian and their mother a
Spaniard. So the theory stands The girls
had grace They could put on the Mexi-
can hats and shaWls and rigging and car
~ it OF we'll some American girl tourists
none of whom, thank Heaven. is from
Kansas-got into those garish buds to be
photographed and II each separate girl
didn't look like Miss Devil or the old lady,
they certainly looked mighty nearly like
went around the corner of the building
for moment when he saw them. He was
next time you see a MeNlean man taAe
off your hat 10 him for this piece of he
duty guarding a sweetheart from firta-
fiouS tourists to retire behind building
to laugh at a Mexican girl2 The American
hasn all the virtues IN the world Get
that in your head gentle reader, and be
cosmopolitan.
We left the little Mexican town in the
afternoon. 1t Will be there in 2 hundred
Years from now Just as it was u hundred
years agO-unless the old white faced
American comes into the herd. Coming
back to San Diego we passed through Nj
tional City-an American town that rose.
The meat for the chilli con carni which we ate
at the Mexican tavern was brought into
the little Mexican town from the north
country and translated into Spanish BY
the cook. We ate a Spanish dinner which
ed than Il similar dinner would have been
in an American country hotel at a town
of less than 100 people We had rice
fried in lard for few minutes 10 harden
the grain. then boiled with onions and to-
matoes frejoles. chilli con carni, which is
q Spanish steW-meat steWed with tOma-
toes and chilli peppers. and potatoes with
out butter The cooking was clean and
intelligent and after our stOfnaehs had got
ten onto the Nernacular. they turned din
ner into reasonably good Anglo-Saxoh
blood in three or four hours. To see this
bill of fare in print one would suppose that
a man would have to get out and run
jack rabbit to death to get such a dinner
sumption is wrong. Apparently Mexieans
have something like human cog wheels
under their vest. and despite the fact that
Americans cOndeScend a good deal by
perhaps he may not be bad sort-barrine
the fact that he despises labor frankly
while the Americans despise it by infer
ence The difference is this the American
will get his work done by machinery or by
proxy or let it 20. The Mexican merely
What he thinks about. Heaven knows. and
it's none of our business Certainly. it
cant be about his WOmankind For though
there are hundreds of pretty Mexican chill
as a pretty Mexican woman. The beauti-
ful Mexican woman and the beautiful IN
dian maiden live only in books. There are
pretty halfbreedS and pretty Spaniards,
but MeNieans. pure blood. never
These two towns typify the two
nations Mexico and America Each
has its good points Thye sniff
at us. we sniff at them. This is mis-
take Yet it is nature. But nature al
ways good, is sometimes careless and
makes men and beasts blind TO each 9TH
ers' excel encies. Witness the feud be-
tween thI dog and the cat.