The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-17
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hair. When she gets home she viii
whisper something 10 the. canary be-
fore she puts the rose on her pillow
The goSsips wink at one another and
exchange condolences behind their per
fumed fans. I suspect they are sayIuS
that before many more moons rise over
the mountains, to shine on Santa Lu-
cha, there viii be another runaway.
I The warm blood of the south BROOKS no
restraint when the heart beats young.
The Way of the Yankees.
The band is playing in the plaza,
The Sousa twO-step sounds miles away.
Instead Of being "a full band it might
! be a photograph in a barrel. The arc
| lights wink solemuiy among the trees.
and then flare no as they signal back
/ and forth along the avenues. The
waiter clears away the plates and
4 brings the coffee What is all this
! hUbbub at the table on the right
! A Yankee drummer and q native are
! threshing out a hot argument on the
/ systems Of their respective countries
! The American sits in his chair ~
! limp as if he did not have Joint in
| him. while the other is as stiff as
! military salute. The northerner says
/ mis- people are more practical in their
| way OF doing things. and cites com
/ Parsons TO sustain his argument.
! He says he shipped a horse from
/ Chile TO Argentine, and the railroad
/ people pasted a big tag on its hip. It
! took an hour to wash the glue out Of
! the animals hair. A Yankee would
/ have tied that tag on the halter. Some
/ Of the carts in use are almost as heavy
l as box cars. and the animals are
| hitched 10 them as loosely as bows
J would harness goats Why not have
/ fewer pounds of cart and wore hounds
! Of cargo? Some dav when the raw
/ product that is hauled I'm these big
! carts comes into connection with sim
/ flar stuff from North America It. VIII
! he underSOId. because the Yankee
| makes a constant study Of si0nD'ifving
| and cheapening his methods Of prCduc-
! ton. A party was travelling across the
/ desert in a stage coach The dust was
/ dreadful. A Chilean girl was much
) distressed because her hat was being
! SnOiled. but she would not take II off
because the dirt would pct I'm her hair
and make her look untidv. The only
American girl in the party nut her hat
! in a paper bag and pinned IL 10 the
! canvass top with a hat oin. rernarIinE
/ that she could get a shampoo for
( dollar. while new hat would cost
! fifteen
The simple. practical way is the
| way of the American. in manUfaCtuT-
ing ne can make a dollar go farther
J than a hound can run. It is true he
IS not as smooth an article as the
/ European salesman. He does not wea~
! q white vest and he cannot speak
| French. But he is night owl on the
problems Of the factory. He sits up
with his business as cheerfully as r.
! policeman sparkling a servant girl
With the facts and figures in his price
list he will soon have those after-din
ner speakers hunting for the tail tim
/ Der Business Is q sack coat affair, not
a full dress .function: and the place To
transact affairs Is the Office, not the
banquet hall Europe and South Amer
lea will find this ont before long. and
the Yankee will have a felt fun OF
scalpS while they are watching on.
A Moonlight Memory.
The walters are brushing up the
crumbs and counting their tips A
hay mist Of cigar smoke swirlS
through the cafe There is a last clink-
inf Of glasses and pushing back OF
chairs. ''Bucnas nOche'' is the way to
say good night in Spanish. I Iinser TO
take my last look from Santa Lucia
for tomorrow at dayEreak I am going
away. The night is we'll along and
dank smells are in the air. The flowers
are wet with dew and the vines shine
+ strangely IN the moonlight I whirl
downward past the monument erected
, to those hapleSS souls who have no
= place in heaven OF earth-suppOsed to
( mean suicides, then under the poised
, figure of Victory holding its trumpet
/ TO the heavens. The Alameda is de
3 serted save for street cleaners. an OC-
casiOnaI beggar, or a belated priest
5 One may travel far he may traverse
all lands. but the memory of rare old
Santa Lucia shining in the moonlight
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