The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-17
INCoNSEQUENCE As It Exists and Operates in the Land of Sunny
 Spain.
IS UNWISE TO PLAN THERE
Adaptability to Whatever May Hap pen to Turn Up Is
 Desirable.

preconeeived convictions or plan, says a writer in the London Mail. The opin- ions of the most determined Suffrag- cite would die of hamilton owing to the fact that in Spain lady must never be contradicted by man what ever theory she may advance. You are quite right; l entirely agree with you" says the polite Spaniard with his lips. while inwardly he remains for ever of the same opinion still. While as to plans--they are mere works of supercrogation, their feasibility de- pending upon the never to be compre- hended workings of those overgods known among men as railway author ities. Once having discovered that the timetable Is full of meanings hidden from the vulgar eye. you wisely trouble no more about ways and means, but resign yourself to a picnic series of happenings that will land you (acci- dents apart) somewhere and some time.
 First in the order of events comes, justly. chaos. A team of mules, strain- ing and bell-decked; thwacking, vo- ciferating drivers. yelling encourage ments from threats that split the air in their unnecessary endeavors to as- sist; clattering, stamping, pelting over the stones; and you are shot out at the station, under the impression that all this overwhelming hurry must have it's special import. Not a bit of it. That is its inconsequence. For the next three-quarters of an hour you will now proceed to cool your heels in the line before the solitary ticket office. while a clerk, with a soul above his business, leisurely proceeds to write out tickets of ever-varying destinations, and to clip them out with a pair of scissors. Incidentally, he converses on matters of private import with loquacious friend inside the office. But there is no hurry; this is the period of geological settling down, when rocks are made.
 By the by, the single line of this way-sdiest of wayside stations (albeit it serves a city great with hoary an tiquity) yields to view train, and we revert to our first method, and board it in a scrambling mass, a prey to the sudden delusion that there is not a moment to be lost. Newspaper par cels, precariously bound up with string. bags, portmanteaus of every known and unknown variety since travelling ! first came to be, block up carriage and corridor, for here there Is an uncon- querable aversion from using the lug gage van for anything that can. by hook or by crook, be wedged through l dopr or window, or over the toes of suffering humanity Water pots are tucked under the seat, and the grad ually composing passenger proceed to divest themselves of all unnecessary
 and sometimes one would think quite ecessary-apparel.l And-noth- ing happens.
 Big wooden arks with gold-papered panels and iron clamps, bastard de- scendants of the coffers one meets with in museums, continue to be brought into the station; but when one sees two or three on the back of one still active porter, one realizes that here
 too, appearances are deceptive, and | that the contents are not so heavy as they seem. Gradually the station emp ties; we are all quite composed now; have even entered upon a stage of sod den resignation. when, at long last and apparently without any, particular reason, the train makes up its mind tc start
 Being an express. 1t will only stor indefinitely at every station and a few times in between. and the pace is a
 gentle 'dander' admirably adapted fol the full enjoyment of the landscape
 Trains marked Gran velocidad' (higr
 speed) are of the baggage order, witt
 a prediection for standing still Sta.
 tion and stationary are almost synony.
 nous terms in Spain, Commercial
 travellers, with only two or three sta.
 tions to pass, clutch their seats, anC
 with straining eyes give themselves
 up to the obvious fear of being whirl
 ed past their destination-this. of It.
 self, being proof that the unexpected
 Is quite the expected here; but thos,
 with longer journey before them si
 at ease, and the strangers of whil,
 ago are now ones most interested
 friends. They abound in information O
 the most varied and untrustworth,
 kind; little escapes their curiosity
 nothing their comment. It is a sur
 prise to hear that one is English
 they had thought French. but the,
 like the English much better
 l.
 ed. and good wishes as to it's profit
 abieness exchanged, for in Spain it i
 the height of bad manner to eat i,
 churlish solitude; even if sitting h,
 the roadside one must offer ones crus to the passerby. At present grapes bread and the eminently respectabl
 chorizo form the menu Travel with out chorizo? Why, people will thin you can't afford it!' This delectabl dish is a species of highly-spiced sau sage, of the durability and eonsistenc or red elephant hide, and it possesse power of resistance and abiding , ness that does it credit in this s , mutsble world.
 Easy inconsequence. an adaptabilit .o WhdteNer may turn up. has its nm : doubted charm after the hurry. ,h : punctuality, the grown-up convention alities of the home life. For in Sinai - one is again a child Why worry? Any
 thing unpleasant can be thought of h
 and by, There is always manana (tc l morrow), and again manana: and th l sun is hot and bells clang, and th . present moment Is everything Fc I your true Spaniard is a child: he Ina . his fts of temper. his irrational iov ' his sudden diversions; all those of . child-of a passionate but lovabl
 child, ready to forgive and equally Q, e pecting to be forgiven That is the ns
 ture of those who are. in bodily ar . pearence, grown up. The concret l spanish child of the lower classes. UT Y less it lives in distant farm or villag Q when it can he as charming in nati, nnliferpSs lie ar1 s- l.