The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-10-19
IN OLD MENDOZA.
ma If the Quaintest, Yet Most Aristocratic
rites IN South America, Where Ancient
spanish Customs Prevail.
,prtial Correspondence of The journal. ]

aDlsh Customs Prevail.
prtial Correspondence of The Journal
NpOZA, ARGENTINA, September 8,
one is surprised to find SO many
noes of modern luxury and foreign
ion in this far-aWay town at the
If the Andes. The houses, as be-
mentioned, are of adobe bricks,
red with successive coats of plaster
they look like marble walls, all low,
ing around an inner court yard
,oyering a great deal of space. Just
de the town is a mandatory
r. the rude, square brick is made
"A is used to floor the better
rs; and those who are rich enough,
he bricks with rugs or carpets
uopean manufacture. Nowadays
AIendozian family with any pre-
uus to social standing has piano,
ing machine and a telephone in
use, though cooking stoves are
~ unknown and glass windows are
Nception rather than the rule.
are renaissance sideboards,
- w handicapped tables, Orien-
9pstry, brass bedsteadS, sofas and
upholstered gorgeously in satin
ash, crystal chandeliers, elegant
rtains. and great deal of rival
Xhibited i'll the matter of elabo-
III gratlngs over the windows and
ought iron gates of the patios,
{ the latter being heavily gilded
airing a monogram or coat-of-
There Is new opera hOuSe,-a
washed structure, two stories
The public library contains sew
ousand volumes, and the number
ellis Of churches and converts
together at stated hours every
sort of discordant chime which
- IS rather trying to the nerves of
-pTS. There are two or three
s papers, and a daily called Ell
uclnoal, whose pomUous editorials
lead the outside world to believe
Mendoza IS the greatest and most
amt city on the face of the earth
lief that is fully shared by most
citizens. There is an excellent
e. here, with young Enghshman
lead of it; but that education is 4
w ebb in the province at large
ne inferred from the officially
fact that out of its total popula-
II 10000, 10000 can neither read
rite. The Mendozians are said to
most peaceable and hospitable
4 in the Argentine Republic. The
classes are generally of pure
IAN blood, light-skinned, intelli-
and well educated; but the pre-
lating lower classes are a mongrel
ne of every type that exists in the
ny west of the Parana, being COM
of the poems or native peasants |
different provinces, the majority
ON have also negro or Indian
N their veins. They are densely
ant and very immoral, according
standards, but usually kind heart
ID courteous toward strangers.
IT their time is spent in dancing
ther frivolous amusements, but the
N of all grades embroider with
rrful skill and taste. Bonnets
not yet invaded this Acadia to
damaging extent, the graceful
and mantilla-so much more be-
= to the dark-eyed, olive-tinted
IS of the south-universally pre-
rs IN other parts Of South Amer
~ lower classes carry nearly every
on their heads, while the eXclu-
gper GRASSES lioUhihS at all. One
"a leloo , te4 .lll51 golilS W VI
NAL het' paidiicllls huse Ieu "ateI-
II lheif neduS' OF great Shailo"
OF liltiI ana vegetables, or per
me ia! supply Oh ullcoohea meat
'llslI TN pan Illdl uazlllhgly re-
lHe rays ol ttie sun any morning
+dy meet d woman WIN d aeau
Sheep OF KID poised on top OF her
I'M OF lingering ulluef d SACK Oh
u Ioa'' Oh ilItWood' OF perhaps her
llece IS Jauhtily ornamented by
! 4mDrella, OF d palr OF SHOES TO
A'4ea oy tile cooo!er, or bouquet
eis WHICH lei MISTRESS Is seholis
nc lflelld'
ne III Mendoza you shoola nave
u d DlFloclla-ohce the laShlohaple
* OF Argentina, ike the sedah
S OF Brazll, but now generally DIS,
u except by the conservative Ola |
. lamllles. LII resembles the dea-
celebrated one-hofse shay, only
IS Drawn by TWO horses, one Be
n the shafts ana one OUTSIDE (on
~ sldel fastened by aslngle trace.
iIlVer Is mounted on the OUTSIDE
and there are seats over the !
IS 1or TWO passengers "hen
ing among the hllls a servant al
IolloWs with a thlrd morse, winch
ached TO the right SIDE OF the vehl-
nenever a NIL is TO be assembled.
On gulitless OF springs and unpro-
d from aust and sun, the plrlocha
excellent carnage for the hllly
-fy, ana IS better Tor the city
Is imam many more modern vehl-
lecause OF us faclllty for turning
II corners, out II is not at all
TED Tor journeys across the pampa.