The Holbrook news., 1912-01-26

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 Coronado in the state of Dur
 ango, represents an average
 Mexican village, one that can
 be duplicated anywhere in the northern two-thirds of the country. It is typical even in its legend-all mining towns here have the same. Once upon a time it's mines yielded pave with silver the street leading from his house to the church on the occasion of his daughters marriage.
 Panuco, like all Mexican villages, is a transplanted bit of the orient. There is the same small, now adobe house, with the flat roof and no chimney and usually no window. Women carry the same jars of water on their heads, and men clad in loose white cotton trudge lazily behind their little burros or more likely add their weight to the already overburdened animals. The glaring sun beats down from a trop- ical sky on the same palm and cac- tus, and a general air of emptiness and silence pervades the streets.
 The universal building material is adobe, which is faced with plaster only in the better houses. These are al ways built in the form of hollow square-the rooms opening into the patio in the center. The more pre- tentious homes have windows, barred on the outside because the houses are built snug up to the street, which gives them the appearance of cells in a prison.
 There is no patch of green or any thing bright to relieve the uniform dust brown color of house and street, no spear of grass is in sight, and all the flowers are kept in the patio. The particular village can boast of two trees, one cottonwood on the out skirts and one pepper berry.
 What One Sees Inside.
 To enter one of these huts is to stop in on a mud floor, rarely a brick one, to see a few earthen bowls and saucers in one corner, little pile of charred ashes in another, and a rude altar made of a couple of packing boxes, decorated with a few gaudy bits of tinsel and scraps of ribbon and empty beer bottles with withered flowers, an offering to the Virgin of Guadaloupe, who looks down from the wall Chairs, bed and table are luxuries not commonly found. Mexi- can women are fond of flowers, and the patios are bright with blossoms throughout the year.
 One traveller describes a Mexican village as "sun, silence and adobe" and this is one's first and last im- pression. Whatever life is Is around the plaza; for away from here one sees only an occasional water-carrier or a peon closely wrapped in his serape squatting on the ground in the sum- Pigs and dogs are everywhere. They come from every open doorway l and follow us, yelping and barking. A | dozen dogs are not too many for an average family. And the pigs-they | sleep in the middle of the street, and | not until our horses feet are almost | on them do they grunt and lazily move a step to the right.
 But in the evening all Is changed and the place is full of life and stir Everybody comes out to enjoy the music and to stroll around and around the plaza Men and women do not walk together unless married or en- gagged, but the men walk three or four abreast in the inside of the and the women on the out side in the opposite direction Through he open doors of the pulque shops nay be seen groups of men drinking he nauseous beverage.
 Each Village Has a Band.
 These shops. as well as all the ;tores. are not known by the names ,f their owners, but by some such anciful names as Flowers of May" Afternoon in April'' and "The Sur ,rise." No village is too small to rave its band, and a good one, too, hat plays at the plaza one or two a week throughout the year. The natives are musical. and one Tears everywhere the tinkle of the ,uitar or mandolin playing some na- i've air, like the plaintive La or possibly the latest i'm 'ortation from home. One does not ned to read the sign para ninas." painted in big lack letters on a low plastered to know that it is a school or girls, for the children study in oncert and-well, pulmonary troubles re not common at this altitude. education is compulsory throughout the republic, and so every illage has two schools, one for boys nd another for girls. 1 Pay day comes once a month. Work