The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-06

SOA-Gos anu 6C4AlAE SCAAg4AAo GDilS4Q- CTS herself most highly eomplimented when the greatest number of eggs smashes scuarely into her face. The eminent swell, thing is to so around on horseback. closely followed by ser want, also on horse, carrying a big bas- ket of eggs. A comparatively recent innovation in the way Of water-throw-
 ing is the use of enormous tin syringes or squirt guns. by which a considerable stream may be sent some distance with great force. The men endeavor by ev- -ery means, forcible and strategic, to gain entrance to the houses. They
 bring ladders and climb to the balco-
 nies, or "shin up" convenient pillars, or run like cats from roof to roof and drop
 down into inner courtyards, or, failing
 in every other method, number will retreat few yards, then. starting to-
 gether on a run as if storming a bat
 tery, will actually kick or push door
 from it's fastenings. Once inside. the
 mischief that may be accomplished in a
 few minutes is terrific. the highly exci-
 ted people becoming perfectly reckless.
 Sometimes the besieged or the besiegers
 turn the hose loose, full head, in the
 dining room or parlor. till the whole
 premises look like the few houses that
 remained standing after the Johnstown
 flood. The women fly. shrieking, to
 hide themselves, closely persued by the
 men; and woe betide one who is caught,
 be she the most dignified senora or the belle of last nights ball Her male friends and admirers drag her to the
 nearest water spout, tank or bath
 tub and nearly drown her; they pour dippers of water down her back. sprin-
 kle flour and pink powder in her hair
 and deluge her with perfumery. Some times the women combine to overthrow
 some unfortunate man, whom they car
 ry bodily and plump into the tank,
 ducking him repeatedly, and often hold ing him under water beyond the point of safety.
 On the eve of Ash-Wednesday carni- , val Is ended by the formal burial of
 "The Spiria of the Season procession of hundreds of men on horseback, with
 bands playing and banners flying, pro- ceed to the Campa, or open field beyond the city, carrying in the midst the
 stuffed effigy of a fat, jolly-faced man in the uniform of naval officer, seated in miniature full-rigged ship. A great grave has been previously dug, and in it they place the figure, with ap- propriate ceremonies and volleys of musketry. During all the week, while the upper classes are thus diverting themselves, los pobres, (the poor), par ticularly the Indians, celebrate the oc-
 casion in their own peculiar fashion.
 How many barrels of ehieha they con
 sume there is no deciple here of the
 Women's Christian Temperance Union
 to enumerate, but certainly enough to
 keep that numerous portion of the pop
 ulation considerably more than half
 seas over" Every chicharea Is filled
 with music, dancing and signs of cholo
 revelry; but the Indians, who are dls- l tinctive class by themselves, seem to have much the best of it. Looking out
 at any time of day or night. one may
 see groups of them, dressed in their fiesta best, and gaily bedecked wiah
 feathers and garlands of fowers-the
 men with reed flutes and mandolins of
 home-manufacture fthe bowls of the latter being the natural shells of hairy
 armadillas) all singing, chattering,
 dancing and shouting. Watching a
 company of these, far as the eye can reach up and down the long. narrow thoroughfares, one sees that they keep 1 it up untiringly, never faltering for a
 moment in their dancing keeping per- E fao &, . esio ..,, o; a 6 they go. One dusky belle, then anoth- CT, whirls into the middle of the stony street, singing shriily some (to us unin- | ltelIigible) folk-song, while the men spin | like tops in circle around her. About the only words we can catch are the constantly repeated Hay car-nee-vaf'
 the last word accentuated strong on the final syllable, and "hay" (pro- lnounced i-e) meaning there is or we have" It is noticeable that, in spite of their conviviality, the various tribes of
 Peru never mingle socially, but Aynla- ra. Quichua and Auraeana retain each the dress and manners of his own peo- pie will have nothing to do With repre- sentatives of any other tribe.
 After this week of reckless revel peo- pie literally walk on egg-shells,"s the pavements being thickly covered with them, while the walls Of the houses, doors, windows and even the stones of | the street are streaked and stained a | hue like human gore, as though a most sanguinary conflict had occurred. One good result is that everybody's resi- dence must be scrubbed and painted, insuring thorough annual cleaning l FANNIE B. WARD.