The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-04

years ago, the seal of probably the
/ greatest silver paf&iucing mines in the
world. mines which have produced thei.
billions of dollars of the white metal.
me silver production at the present
/ DAY IS not so great as 1T was years ago.
| The city has accordingly decreased in
population from eighty thousand to for
| ty thousand.
Here the railway runs well up along
the side of the mountain, affording a
| passenger marvellous birds eye view
or the valley holding the city, which,
with the low flat-roofed, plaster houses
and the surrounding hills, is said to
thus offer almost duplicate Of the view
OF Jerusalem from the hills surrounding
that famous city.
Over a wonderful roadway or boule-
ward, largely traversed by burros the
pack animals which are everywhere the
TO the suburban town of Guadalupe, is
said to correspond to the road and traf-
nc from Jerusalem to Jordan.
The third stop was at the City of
Aguas Calientes. pronounced Ah-was
Cal-1-en'teez. The name of the town
means Hot Waters and is derived from
the warm springs at this place.
The Drawn Work Craze.
This town of forty thousand is one to
be remembered by all tourists. 1t is the
first place where drawn work comes in
to special evidence. Here in one con-
ing. The pilgrims had heard about
this place for hours and were becoming
worked up over the drawn work
craze to such an extent that
when they left the train they
boarded the street cars and mads
bee line for the headquarters for silks
and linens, treated in the wonderful
manner and methods in which certain
Mexican women are adopts. So worked
up over the desire to secure for their
" ri dS Sal T11n
handwork were the pilgrims, that leav-
ing the car they walked rapidly by the
stores, the parks, the cathedrals and
along the sidewalks sheltered from the
sun by porticoes, that they thought lit
tie and saw less of the interesting sights
in the city. It was drawn work, drawn
work, a wild scramble for drawn work.
Arriving at the objective point an in
telligent Mexican woman, who talked
English and her assistant, who tried to
speak our language, were overwhelmed
by thirty or forty of the party who
were well nigh daft over the beautiful
work in the linens and the marvelously
low prices which were asked.
Men may delight to make fun of wO-
men assembling about bargain counters
in the department stores following an
advertisement in the Friday evening
newspapers, but none of these men who
assembled on this day around the drawn
work counter can criticize with any sort
of grace any feminine hands reaching
for specials on the bargain counter. A
few of us more sane and modest than
the rest stood back overwhelmed and
awed at the grand rush and waited for
a lull in the excitement and till cooler
thoughts and calmer efforts prevailed.
We all bought drawn work as If it were
our last chance and opportunity to get
it; the men going back to the train
laden with bundles and packages like
the ttrongs in an American. city hurry
ing homeward after Christmas eve pur-
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A handsome table cover could be Sc
cured for six dollars Mexican money,
three dollars our money, and a beauti-
full handkerchief for one dollar Mexican,
fifty cents in our money! and hand
kerchief with an exquisite pattern for
one dollar American money. Afterwards
we ascertaineds that there were stores
in the City of Mexico where the same
patterns and the same articles could
be bought at about the same figures.
Contrary to the. general impression the