El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14

UATEAIALA CITY. Dec. 1.-THE
- most interesting travels to-
~ day are upon our own
continent About 100000 Ameri-
cans now spend something ike
S2O0.OO0.OO0 every year in golns TO gu
rope. They spend IL for naughL- 1ney
go abroad to find strange customs ana
queer costumes. but return saying tnat
such things have all passed away ana
that the people Of Europe and the Unit
ed States are much the same ne onIy
part of Holland which has the Old
fashioned cap, the wooden shoe and the
voluminous trousers, apparently cut out
with a circular saw, is to be found on
the Island of Marker, and the other
islands along the north coast
You can see as Interesting Germans
in Milwaukee or St Louis as you can
in old Deutschland, and there are quite
Dublin or Cork. Even Egypt is over
run with American tourists, and there
are parts of Cairo which are not mucn
different from parts OF New YORK
In the Guatemala Market.
On the other hand, take this city OF
Guatemala 1t abounds in strange
sights The houses are low and olq-
fashioned. They are painted bright
coIors- and they shine like Dolly Warden
dresses under the sun. Comparatively
few of the people are dressed as we
are. The men from the country nave
their own costumes and the Is lndlan
tribes which constitute three-fourths OF
the population. have each dress OF
Come with me to the market It lies
Just below the wide plaza where the
gayIv uniformed band plays every
night. It is within q stones throw OF
the cathedral whose architecture is as
interesting as any IN Spain ana lhe
market house itself consists or acres OF
low buildings surrounding a-courI the
scenes of which remind you of the ba-
Ears Of PARKWAY India The whole Gov
wall of stores around the outside, and
the court is rooted over to cover the
booth shops and stores of the baZar-
The market is divided into sections,
and everything under the sun IS sold IN
it There are booths fun of native
shaWls silk hdndkerchiefs and cloths
of every description There are sec
lions devoted to the selling OF meats,
some to the selling Of iron and others
to ToodenWare. basket work and TO
hats, hammocks and children's toys.
The streets outside the market are
filled with indians, who squat on the
ground with their packs before them,
and with the wares they have brought
in from the country spread out upon
mats. -,
There are peddlers everywhere, and
such peddlersI Here comes one smoking
a cigar. She is an indian UonEsl win
big liquid eyes, black hair and race
the color of copper. She is selling can
are of all sorts Of reds, yellows ana
bilious green. The candy boxes are OF
bark. and she has some put up IN strips
of brightly colored pine. Next her IS
peddler who is hawking iguanas-
These are lizards, which have heads like
a turtle and tails like a snake. Some
of them are as big as cat, and those
that this girl has are cooked or drieo
Here come two girls carrying
baskets of eggs The baskets are on
their heads, but they move about
through the crowd without danger. the
eirIs are good looking. Their dress
consists of a bright colored cloth ABOUT
a yard wide, which is wrapped around
the legs and the waist showing only
a spice of the calf The shoulders ana
urper part Of the body are inclosed in
a waist with very fuI sleeves rms
waist is beautifully embroidered ana
it often costs as much as the lace
waists of our girls at home THESE IN
dian girls have beads and coins about
their necks. They are often bare
footed, but not a few have over their
heads Guatemala silk shawls OF the
brightest red, yellow or blue
An then there are indian men with
packs on their backs and indian Wom-
en- with babies in their arms. The mar
ket am describing is on Saturday and
the people have come in for many
miles to buy and sell
Guatemala Fruits.
We make our way through the crowd
and stroll about in the court Inere IS
no place that will give one a better idea
Of the richness of Guatemala The
fruits and vegetables are OF every de-
scriptiOu. Here is a man selling aqua
cate, or alligator pears. You can BUY
one the size of a tin cup Tor cent
and a half, and it viii make the most
delicious salad on earth The same
pear in New York, imported from
Florida or Cuba would cost 90 cents
And then the -pineapples- There are
great baskets of them, ranging IN size
from that Of your two fists to peck
measure. I ask for the price and am
apiece There are also melons and
papayas. whose flesh is as yellow as
gold. The papaya grows on tree, but
it looks like a yellow muSkmelon- II
tastes much the same. but it is so good
for digestion that you can mix IL with
pork, mince pie or plum pudding and
have no nightmare to follow.
Among the other fruits sold here is
the mangosteen, which has red skin
and white flesh, and whose taste makes
one think of ice cream. There are also
oranges, bananas and lemons and other
fruits strange to my eyes
Scenes at the Restaurants
But let Us go on 70 the meat market
and look at the cook shops behlnd II
There is a half acre of meat peddiers-
They are selling beef, pork and NUT
ton cut up in long strips, and hung to
iron bars over their heads. The butch
ers are indian women ,l pare heaoeo'
We go on to the cook shops They
cover half an acre Each consists of an
oven or stove built up from the floor
to the height of your waist, and so
made that they form tables upon which
in pans flied with ashes. charcoal is
burning The pots, containing the
meats, rest upon an iron framework
over the Goals and each fire has its
pot Here is one in which fish Is fry
ing. over there macarORi is stewing,
and at my left fresh tomatoes are
cooking. There are great bowls Of rice
steaming away, and big iron jars of
bean soup ready to serve. Here they
are boiling eggs, there frying plan
tains or bananas and farther on max
ing fritters of various kinds The
ordinary restaurant has a counter IN