The Republican journal., 1903-04-09
mn THINGS IN ECUADOR.

~ panama Hats" are Never Made IN
panama
correspondence of The Journal.l
.1.lL ECUADOR, March 1, 1908
,. mort is the commercial center
.au.-in fact the only place with
,Jers worth mentioning in con-
vF.b trade-its merchants carry
.-aal.e stocks of goods. Some OF
.,.u to have half a million pesos
INVESTED, with an annual trade
.-..p that amount. Very few of
.oe1tr, are Ecuadorians. The
Importers are Chinese; then
.. French, English and Italians,
a-r named. The Chinese, with
.tal quiet persistency, have
many native dealers to the
.u.uue their monopolles so
.l. tAat few years ago the
ut the Republic, following
mJshining example of Uncle
..,-pd law forbiddng the
....r ut Mongolians to Ecuador.
.-t3l. when transplanted to
m4l climate, no longer con
to the society of his own
and women, as in Califor-
.Nl ere, but blossoms out as
taucaSian society, delight
... lis martial attentions, his
u. and his Wash-tub with rep
>ot other nationalities. His
N- are generally loW-class
......,. In whose veins circulates
.r ppodrida of Indian, Span
..... 4r4 Anglo Saxon blood, and
..-.tl colored skin is not a bad
+- MS own Satfron-hued com
FL. nam difference in clocks"
.... -.s eyeS-thoSe of the native
Tug very large, dark and ex-
... d not set on the bias after
..... of the tlowery kingdom. As
aclred, the offspring of this
uarrntage have not much to
The way of beauty. They
preposSessiDg III appear
sr people Of the Creek nation
...+u territory. who are mixed
scotch and Negro, and have |
e.. ..u hair. high cheek bones, fiat
, et blue eyes with plnkish lids,
... wish skin covered with dark |
.. a. kles large as marrow-fat |
r- doors of all the buildings
. ncipal street of Guayaquil
shops, while the merchants
families live above them.
.. ness hours the entire front |
...4r Is removed to allow freer |
II air and the better to |
Goods. the ground floors hav- |
.. HoNs The upper stories are
a and during the day awnings |
..4. permitting the inmates to
um behind, but perfectly |
en- from outside obServa-
ulug the awnings are furl- !
.a everybody rushes to the
U except the women who
. to Cinnamon. They must
.. u yirtuous seclusion, be-
urds and masters do the
-- unt of business in their
...-,u sundOWn and midnight,
atore unable to escort their
.... But on fiesta days and
... see them-each Celestial
Ssh kIug ahead with the lordly
.-.itieleer, his seraglio of hens
owing. in the order of their
e oldest wife first, although
manner shows that he
..t 3test acquisition.
d. a eXports bear no proportion
r liabilities, and there is no
t azinesS for the chronic
70. # the country. The ship
COCOA, coffee, India rubber,
uUg0na bark, nuts, vegetable
iiIa-Weed, sarsaparilla, tama-
.l o.ner fruits, amounts to an
Hg slX million pesos per annum.
.. in Guayaquil that Ecuador
p. Is .uWardS of ten million pesos
Iy year-but perhaps we may
paaurd for doubling the state
IN, government keeps no statls-
tonmerce, and the value OF
ased merely on the amount
t.s Elected. 1t does not seem
suaHr mat the most impoverished
a-a"aId country in all South
--a could long continue to pur-
As" -NIc- as much per annum as she
Most OF the imports come from
ta.t some from China, and less
~ 'rruany, The United States
sIsl~- little but lard. All the flour
mes tr9n Chile.
-faaloe is famous for only two things
10y making the best straw hats and
slls ,fe 6nest pineapples in the
I'o' lredit for the latter being en-
--y due tn lame Nature, and for the
.Ae tn the native women who weave
"a. ! he So-called Panama hats are
Isl '} male IN Guayaquil and the In
81 ages along the coast, but few
lsI't- DI ft..roJnr opJ mana of I'll in