The Holbrook news., 1912-01-05

the very edge the beautiful Amatitlan lake for it's IS miles in length. This lake is the resort and picnic grounds of the city, which is IS miles away. Special trains leave the city every Sunday with the crowds of pleasure seekers, for boating and fishing are most enjoyable on the smooth water. As we travelled along we could see steam rising from the hot water that bubbled out of the cold water at the edge of the lake.
 The air is cooler now and by the time we reached the city. at 6:00 p. m., it was quite cold A wrap was very necessary, yet this is. their summer. Guatemala City is always cool and the people all walk with a quick, business like air. A carriage drove us over the stone streets with many a jolt and bump and finally landed us at the big double doors of our hotel.
 The city is laid out in the usual Latin-American checker-board fashion with the park in the center surround ed by the cathedral and other impor- tant buildings. The iron fence inclos- ing the park separates an inside walk from an outside one. Both are wide and accomodate the double lines of strollers going in opposite directions, the women generally on the inside. The band, which Is exceptionally har- monious and spirited, plays the while.
 At the entrance to the park there is large bronze statue of Columbus mounted on a globe which is support -I |. -1-- -L bronze figures which stand on a larger globe that rests on pedestal The whole proclaims great strength and victory.
 The Market.
 The market of Guatemala City mus not be overlooked, for it is very large, the building occupying a whole block, while every available space of the earthen floor is covered with stalls with just space enough between them to permit persons to pass. In fact, in wandering around 1t is very easy to get lost, there are so many aisles.
 The women who have charge of most of the stalls come early in the morning with the little ones; the latter amuse themselves all day long by making mud pies on the floor.
 The street scenes all over the city are vastly interesting and ever chang ing. with men and women gracefully tilting baskets and bundles on their heads, the soft tread of the barefoot ed women being relieved by the clat- ter of the sandals worn by the men, In fact. the street scenes represent the market in motion with the intro duction of donkey here and there. whose identity is completely lost un- der the burden he bears.
 Cost of Living Not High.
 Living in Guatemala is very cheap, and for little money one can have many luxuries. A man getting an or dinary salary in our country would find his pockets not sufficiently large to hold the same salary here, so would deem 1t necessary to take along a suit case on pay day.
 The Guatemalan peso, or dollal. which equals about six of our cents, is divided into reals, medio-reals and cuarto reals. the latter being the min imum, and one equals about three-six teenths of our cent
 Guatemala City Is somewhat shut in from the world. the nearest port, San Jose, being S5 miles away. There fore it is not so generally sought by tourists or pleasure seekers. It Is a rich field for the artist. the two dis tinct casts lending material for light and shadow, while from earth to sky the multiple colors call into play every hue and shade ever conceived of by artists, or conceived by an artists dream HELEN F. FORD.