El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-10

ORDERS BATTLEsHIPS FROM us AND TAKES US
: AS MODELS
She Has Plenty of Money and Is Big Rival of the United
States as a Producer of Beef, Mutton, and Bread
stuffs-A Great Republic Run and Managed by
Sixty Families Buenos Aires South
American Paris.

caSseS of beef and mutton in refr1g-
orator ships more cheaply than our
western ranchmen can land livestock
at Chicago or Kansas City. The coun-
try is celebrated for the quality Of its
f1eeces, as well as for its hard and
beautiful woods, so useful for veneer
ing, which are not to be found any
where else in the world, except in
Central America.
The development of the resources Of
the Argentine is proceeding as fast as
it can be pushed by an energetic and
enterprising people-the republic be-
ing really under the management and
control of about 60 families of Span
ish descent. These families are highly
cultured. enormously wealthy, and very
closely tied together by relationship
through intermarriage. While consid-
ering themselves above politics, they
nevertheless run the country. Many Of
them are owners Of vast estates of
so. 900 or 100, 900 acres, on which i'm
mense numbers Of horses and cattle
are raised. A typical estate Of this
kind is the Estancia Taytay, so miles
from Buenos Aires. The distance is u
miles from the entrance to the gate
u the family mansion. and it takes all
day 10 ride across the property. It's
owner is an Argentine lady who mar
ried an American named Parsons.
Arthur Ruhl, in his clever book, ''The
Other Americans quotes himself as
saying TO a fellow traveller, while on
his way TO Buenos Aires: Il suppose
1t is the Paris of South America ~
An Awakened Paris.
Paris replies his companion why.
man. there's more life in a minute in
Buenos Aires than-why, you talk
about Paris-Buenos Aires is Paris
given kick and told to wake up"
Mr. Ruhl in further description. says:
"a million mixed Latins lifted bodily
over sea. and retaining all their love
Of pleasure and display-freed from
the intangible weight of an ancient
civilization from the languors of trop-
ical Rio, from the isolation which has
kept Lima city Of old Spain; set
down in a temperate climate. and al
selves The city Of Good Airs was
founded nearly four centuries ago. but
the Buenos Aires of today is as new
as Chicago
What the Argentine needs most is
people and for this reason every en-
coura cement is given TO immigrants.
The republic, vast though it is in
area. has a total population of only
100000, and of this number 100000
are jewellers in Buenos Aires. All over
the republic there are millions of acres
unoccupied. The climate is delightful;
there are no cold winters, and cattle
will live without housing all the year
around. OF all the South American
countries. Argentina offers the best OPP
portunfties to energetic young men who !.
are anxious to make fortunes Two
things are absolutely necessary, how
ever-some capital and a knowledge
Of the Spanish language. Living costs
about as much there as il does in the
United States. In Buenos Aires rents
are dear and meats and vegetables are
cheap Pampa partridges are about
the same price as chickens.
On the Pampas.
The pampas of Argentina are grassy
plains extending half way across South
America from the Atlantic ocean
plains without trees, lakes or rivers.
So fiat is this region that the horizon
is less than three milesdistant from
the viewpoint of a man walking Thus
the limit of view is very small and
1t is said that people born on the pam
pas, when first they visit a mountain
Gus district experience painful sensa-
tons from gazing upon the widely ex-
banded earth around them
The vast plateau of Patagonia is
chiefly valuable for sheep raising. Tt
seems strange to learn that the sheep
reared in that part of the country
rever see water. They do not drink.
but depend upon succulent plants for
such moisture as theyi require In
that arid region there grows a most
useful forage plant, kind of clover,
which survives the severest drouths
Doubtless it could be utilized to excel
lent advantage in our own countries.
and the plant bureau at Washington
will try to procure the seed.
Women Arc Beautiful
The women of the argentine are the
most beautiful in the world, IT is said.
Those of the welltodo class are well
educated, being taught by governesses
up to the age of II or u, when they
are sent to Europe to be finished
Thousands of them are dispatched
every year for this purpose in Paris.
Bordeaux, Marseille. and other cities I'm
France. where there are great board
Ing schools They follow the latest
Partisan fashions, and the gowns Of the
wives and daughters of the rich are
all brought over from France. There I,
are not better dressed women anv-
where than those of Buenos Aires. and
no such market exists elsewhere for |
elaborate and costly underclothes
voluptuous style of loveliness is most
In demand, and blondes are greatly ad-
mIred on account of their rarity. For
some reason unexplained the Yankee |
school mistresses, who have charge of !
most of the schools in the Argentine. |
are as g rule of light hair and com, !
plexion, and 1t Is said that the Num- /
Der OF offers of marriage thew receive |
is well nigh fabulous
Rene Bache.