El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27


, are tail and dignified, and they know
I how to walk. They sare not bashful
1 or backward. They are not immOdest,
| but they seem to be perfectly sure OF
themselves, and to be able TO hold their
! own anywhere. Many of them have
been educated in Europe, and in culture
and bearing they would stand high
{ anywhere ii the world.
The older people run to fat There
! are equity old men and plump dOwagers
/ who, if sold at their weight in gold,
would need a CrOeSus to buy The
! flesh of the older women lacks sOlidity.
and their faces are pasty. They look
as though if you pressed your thumb
! into them the dent would stay. They
seem putty-fleshed.
The Argentine girls do not object to
! having their photographs taken. In
! deed. buying snapshots of yourself and
your friends is one Of the chief Occu-
patiOns of the crowd on the Rambla.
There are half dozen photographers
who have their cameras so set that
1 they can take pictures of the crowd
as it passes. They snap individuals and
groups, and these are exposed in the
windows the next day. GU can look
over a whole window containing sew
eral hundred such pictures of postal
card size, and above them will be the
date on which they We're taken. These
! dates are now those of yesterday, and
( they represent the people who are
mere dL Lut StdSluE lou can DuA Il
picture Of your Sweetheart or of any
girl you would like to have for
sweetheart by paying for her a sum
equal to As cents of our money, and if
you wish a picture of yourself so taken
/ they will print you a dozen for eight
Argentine dollars. The phOtographing
is all done on speculation, the idea
being that when one sees a photograph
OF himself or his friends he will order
the picture.
Promenade is Popular.
The chief hours for strollng about the
Ramba are just before breakfast and din
ner. BY brea lzfast I mean the noon meal,
which begins at about 1 o'clock. You have
in addition to this only coffee and rolls
upon rising, and dinner which comes at
$50 or in the evening From II to 1
the esplanade is filled with hundreds Of the
best class OF the Argentines. The girls usu-
ally walk in groups by themselves and the
young men by themselves.
Now and then you see a young dandy
strutting along looking as though he owned
the whole Argentine Republic, and behind
him perhaps a young married couple who
nave come TO celebrate their honeymoon at
the shore There are many middle-aged
men, all carefully dressed. moving along in
groups chatting and talking, and now and
then a family or young girls with their
brothers and cousins At the same time the
seats on the esplanade are filled with par
ties chatting. and other parties are drink
ing tea or enjoying the sights of the beach.
The crowd is more like a great family than
the stiff and staid one at Bar Harbor
Nearly every one seems TO know every one
else, and the atmosphere is that OF good
humor and pleasure.
The scenes OF the evening are more beau
tiful than those OF the morning. Mar del
Plata at night is one of the gay places of
the world. The great hotel is then ablaze
with electricity, and the Rambla is gOr-
geous. It's wide esplanade has long rows of
electric lights resting like balls OF fire upon
the bronze columns of the balustrade. There
are lights in the corridors that run from