Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-21

Some owners OF haciendas may remain
from home for years and find everything
proSpering when they return. We, how
ever. love the life in the open and take
a personal interest in all that pertains to
our home.
Since coming to Washington my hus-
band has been delighted with his inspec-
ton OF American ways, but we have
found only one dairy which we consider
is as fine and modern as our own. and
that is connected with that wonderful
institution, the Soldiers Home. but there
are only sixty cows at the Soldiers Home
and We have over 200 We serve
milk identically in Bogota as II is served
in Washington, but we give a quart bot
tie for cents, and here you get only a
pint for that amount. But our pasturage
is marvellous and raising cows and get
ting an ample supply OF milk is not the
labor that ii is here.
So rich are our pastures and, having
such a wide range, there are always
fresh fields waiting when one has been
eaten down that il is accurately COM
puted that turning cattle out to fatten
before butchering they gain without fail
one pound OF fat a day. This seems an
Incredible story, but figures and travellers
and your consuls will confirm this state
ment. We have fair wheat fields and set
GOOD crops. but American -four IS the
prime favOrite and all those who desire
good bread and excellent cake and des-
serts invariably prefer II TO our native
product This is principally because our
mills have not yet attained the degree OF
excellence which has been reached here
We are experimenting on this now and
Introducing American milling implements
and methods"
Senior Borda and his family have been
IN Washington about fifteen months and
for some time they occupied the home
OF Gen Miles. on street. They are
now living In the Portland, as the plans
uf the minister are somewhat tentative.
Sonora Riano is one of the handsome
ana modish young women connected with
the corps. She was educated In France
and has spent nearly all her life in diff
ferent countries of Europe. She has
group OF pretty children who are the
delight of their grandparents.
The eldest daughter of the minister and
Sonora Borda. who was Alicia Carlotta,
is married to Senior Carlos Calderon. VINO
is AT present the minister of foreign at
fairs in Bogota. They also have quite
circle of little ones. whose portraits
adorn the walls of Sonora Borda's bOu-
dOir There are two sons, both prominent
in the commercial and political world
of Colombia. Senior Borda, in discussing
his family. said that his father-in law
Gen. Manly. was one OF the handDmest
men OF his era; that he had all the beauty
Of countenance which DISTINGUISHED his
friend Lord Byron, but was over six
feet tall and possessed perfect physique
This physical beauty has been inherited
to a marked degree by his daughter in
her youth and her children, and they are
noted throughout South America for
their attractions as well their social
experience and graces. Sonora Calderon
is considered one OF the loveliest women
in South America, and her photo. recently
taken in Dresden, could easily pass for
an ideal head by Greuze.
live in ic
country before, but the minister has a
long experience and intimate knowledge
OF America, here and In the Latin re-
publicS TO the south
MY husband came here first In 1865 .
said Sonora Borda, but that was be-
fore our marriage. He was from his
early years a great student and gave
promise of the qualities OF craftsmanship