Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02

matter what her social station may be,
it is the same; before midafternoon
her day is done. .nere is no more
Homework to attend to until the next
morning
Arrayed in the fashions which were
becoming to her mother and grand
mother, she soon sallies forth for her
daily constitutional" Fashions ar
rive somewhat late from the shores
of the well dressed outer world and
she has to be content. And she is of
the jeunesse doree, Still she is by no
means an addressed person. Gloves
from Paris, boots of excellent home
make, and costume (whatever its
shape) that is neat and stylish, set off
her fine figure and buoyant carriage to
advantage, while she is in herself as
thoroughly sans gene and coquettish
as any lady ever was. She fits along
to the Plaza Mayor, through the poor
ly paved streets, the air heated and
still and the distant Silla ice-white in
the east. Friends and neighbors join
her; every woman is out, with some
children. more without 1t is not a
lOng walk at the farthest and she
reaches quickly the boulevard or the
square. This is raised terrace, per-
haps 80 yards wide, and not more than
500 in length. A few seats, we'll kept,
trees and shrubbery. lemonade booths
and at one end a casino with good
dancing foOr-such is the Plaza's
boulevard, the theater in which most
Of the social comedies of the city are
enacted. The place being raised above
the level Of the adjoining ground,
fenced in with a parapet, all who strut
up and own upon its stage are kept
in plain view from the square. Here,
except in the rainy season, the Cara
cas- womaNkind pass most of the af-
ternoOn times. Katia has no chance
for loneliness. There is company
enough Of her own sex, and at sunset
the men come to remain for the even
ing, all taking tea in companies at the
cafes. and no one ever INDUCING in an
evening meal under ones own roof.
DuTinSthe afternoon there are a few
soldiers, gallants and old men about,
and as the women walk about, or sit
gOssiping on the benches, they indulge
in Irritation and in preference a game
of cards much affected by the Venezu-
clans, not altogether unlike whist, but
with the element of chance much in
creased. These loungers generally
smoke long black cigars, and it is
quite the custom for the women to
have their little cigarettes In the
evening the men who join their fami-
lies indulge in cards and tobacco also,
and there is some drinking in the shops
on the smaller squares. On the boule-
ward every one knows every one else;
and owing partly to the free and easy
style Ct Caracas society," the custom of
addressing men and women by their
Christian names, and the narrow linn
its c. their little world, the scene on
the plaza is rather that of a huge FAM
lily rartT than of the public promenade
Of the town Every man smokes, and
the larger number Of the women do
the same The establishment of for
eigner on seeing a we'll dressed wo-
man, APPARENTLY a lady, and altogether
a stranger, bowling, and asking for
Eight" may be imagined. There is
nothing cutre in such an action, and if
Katia inclires to fiirt with some city
grardee CT sCme adventurous mer-
chart. 70 one demonstrates.
And now as the evenings wear Oh,
the boulevard scene changes, with the
supTe.s cut CT the way, and the men
present. The citizen may not be in
evening dress, but the promenade is
gai1er II picturesque effect by his
coming. as he has donned some color
or othe". red CT yellow, at the neck or
1T the boz. As early as the bands at
the css'no begin to play, and Katia
ard her women friends flock thither at