The Jasper news., 1906-04-18

wares. Sometimes piece of Mexican
drawnwork will sell at auction sales for
as much as $50. Recently lady friend
and myself went out about five miles to
Mexican settlement to purchase some
drawing work. After leaving the car
we passed through strip Of prairie be-
fore coming to the adobe houses OF the
Mexican, 1--WE felt sure they had copied
after the cabbage patch which Mrs.
Wigs SO cleverly describes) and to be
strolling alone in Mexican town isn't
the safest place in the world for women.
Before we reached the settlement we met
a Peon who looked very vicious and
hungry for blood and we approached him
my friend said warningly, Glide your
watch quick" and when we had passed
on ways she said, "Oh! how he would
liked to have killed u.s." We were a
fraid of contagious diseases so did not
enter the huts but stood outside some
distance and called loudly until some
one came to our rescue. AS neither of
US could speak Spanish, my friend hav-
ing been Northern reared woman, too,
and we had no interpreter, many places
we found it impossible to converse with
them. AS we wended our way back to
the street car we lifted our skirts well
from the ground lest we might carry
some of their germs back to our homes.
Recently as we we're strolling down
Main Avenue we met pretty lassie
some ten years old crying bitterly as she
recountered her tale of woe to an appar-
emily sympathetic policeman, and think
ing possibly she was stranger in the
city and had unfortunately lost her way
We took the liberty to query as to the
trouble and were instantly informed
that whilst shopping Oh one OF the lead
ing business thoroughfares she had been.
boldly robbed by a Mexican who took
her SOC and Immediately lost himself
in the moving crowd. While her loss
was of large proportions for child yet
it was not to be compared to that of the
woman who was robbed only the previ-
Gus evening block from our place of
residence, and relieved of $500 worth of
diamonds. However it will suffice to say
tnat these are unusal cases as it lis in
frequent thing for any woman to be
on the streets.
Loungers are rather scarce on the street
these days rs good portion have died
during the winter and the remainder
are in some of the City Hospitals.
There is quite catalogue of 200 doo-
tors and 81 eciallsts here and no doubt
many are quacks for a city so strickly
cosmopolitan as this naturally has a lit
tie Of everything; the city is full of peo-
pie who have nature alone for their ply.
stefan; these mostly belong to the New
thought type who advocate and practice
the water-cure and find little
need of going abroad as the artesian i
water in San Antonio is especially fine.
Saloons are much in evidence in this |
town being more than 500 with beer and
summer gardens without number; it
may sound queer but the word saloon
isn't seen in the city instead it is
Sunny. side Bari, or "Jim's Place" or
Two Brothers Place" etc. The most !
attractive being the "Buck Horn" so
called from the innumerable number of
leer heads which decorate the ceiling
md form freeze on its walls. The lid
has never been on in San Antonio and
mail possibility of revolution along
hat line. These places stand open all
lay on Sunday and Sunday evening.
The baseball season opened some time
'go and it seems to me l never saw so
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