The daily sentinel., 1912-07-18

/ buildings of the city are its people.
They dress for the most part in the
quaint costumes which they have
worn for several centuries. The wom-
en- wear very short skirts just little
below the knee-often seven or eight
skirts at the same time, | am told.
The stockings are usually white and
the shoes tight slippers. A mere
man" cannot describe the waists. The
only hats they wear are little con-
traptions which look like the head
gear Happy HoOligan is pictured as
wearing. The men wear suit made
rim one piece usually of black shiny
material. The suit is baggy, like a
clowns. with big knee buckles. Their
hats look like those of the minute
mem of the American revolution.
The children are dressed just like
the old folks as soon as they can
walk. Then in addition to these
peasants and working people who
wear the above described costumes
there are many soldiers to be seen.
They wear a green costume trimmed
in red and always carry their bayo-
net along with them. Then there are
students of the university. They dress
in civilized fashion for the most part
but one sees some antique costumes
among them now and then. They
wear caps which tell which frat"
they belong to. Many of their faces
are fearfully hacked up from the
duels they have fought. The more
cuts they can get the prouder they
are. Often those who have not the
courage to fight a duel get a barber
to cut their face for them. so as to
make a good appearance
The life of the town runs its
sleepy round. Wednesdays and Sat
urdays are market days The peas
ants come in from the country with
their produce and lay it out in the
open market place and the women of
the town come and buy. Every day
the soldiers go marching around
with their band playing and long
trail of small boys following along
after them. Eearly every morning
the butcher and baker boys can be
seen delivering their orders from
trays or baskets which they carry on
their shoulders. In the cafes and
saloons the students keep up a con-
tinual carousal from or 3 in the
afternoon to 3 or at night. About
O'Clock in the afternoon the we'll
to-do folks walk out to a place in
L
ants come to town driving their
cows to great numbering wagons. Oc-
casionally one sees a horse-rarely
an automobile. After night the hired
girls come out on the street and meet
their soldier friends" No hired
girl dares wear a hat. On Sunday
church services are held from to
10 o'clock in the morning. The rest
of the day is then free for pictures,
dances, row boating, etc. Sunday af-
ternoon everybody puts on their best
bib and tucker and walks. So every
body sees how everybody else is
dressed and enjoys the fresh air. So
the life goes on from day to day,
from week to week, from month to
month, from year to year. and from
century to century, little affected by
the outside world Rarely does any
one get much excited. Great politi-
cal crises, wars and rumors of wars,
the great crisis of birth, marriage
and death seem to be much more
matters of course for these people
than for us who live so intensely. Still
the better you come to know them
the more you see that they. too, have
their problems and ambitions. and
sorrows. They, too. are human be-
lngs, like the rest of us, in spite of
differences in speech, in dress and in
customs.
Paul was right: God hath made
of one blood every nation of men to
dwell upon the face of the earth.
having determined their appointed
seasons and the bounds of their hab-
itations, that they should seek after
God If haply they might feel after
him and find him"
PAUL BURGESS.