The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-05-18

many fruit vessels. Some OF the Is
lands are covered with orchards and
you pass barges and boats loaGed with
peaches, vegetables n green lhihSs
Of one kind or other.
There is a great deal Of gambling
# the Tigre. At all the large clubs
there are roulette tables and there are
clubs devoted to gambling where the
guests play to be fleeced.
Buenos Aires has all sorts Of thea
tiers. from the Colon Opera House,
one Of the largest n the word, to
cinematographs or moving picture
shows. The Colon seats 800 and
has a stage which is fifty feet in
width and the opening Of which meas
ures sixty feet from floor to roof. AT
this theater evening dress is obligatory
and during the season the president
Of the republic and the high officials
attend. The Odeon is devoted largely
to comic operas, the ColiseO to lyric
operas and operattas while the San
Martin has comedies n acrobatic
shows. And then there are a dozen
other theatres, including some where
| the plays are given in Italian. There
are FIVE or six circuses r moving
picture shows are s%pringing up every
where. At one Of the theaters there
is a stage that a be turned into a
circus ring and there they have dances
prize fights and popular songs. There
are also concerts Of classical music
and in the winter there is skating in
the ice palaces both day and evening.
On the roof Of the Casino is a popu-
lar roller skating rink.
Buenos Aires spends many million
dollars a ear Upon her amusements.
The boxes at h opera house cost a
thousand pesos n upward a season,
and a seat in the orchestra. at a good
show may be equal to IS in gold. The
n at an opera night are as bril-
liant as those of any theater in Eu-
rope. Every person in the boxes and
orchestra is in the height Of full dress,
and the gowns Of the aides are more
costly than those at a White House re-
ception. Most of the dresses come
from Paris, and as to jewels, there is,
I venture, a good half peck Of dia-
mondS scattered over the m Last
night I saw solitaires as big as the
end of my little finger, hanging from
the lobes of pink ears: clusters of
diamond flowers nesting in beds Of
lace upon swelling bosoms, and combs
set with diamonds fastening the raven
~tresses of the Argentine beauties to the
crowns Of their heads. I saw neck
laces of pearls as big as marrowfat
7 peas, joined at the center with rubies
and emeralds, and sapphires and opals
galore.
So much for the sporting side OF
1 Buenos Aires. The city has it's serious
aspect a. we'll. It has it's churches
, charities, museums, libraries, schools
l n newspapers. It has a great cathe-
> dral, which covers more than an acre
|. and will hold 5000 people. It is the
largest Catholic city of the world
Ninety-six per cent Of the. Argentinos
2 are Roman Catholics. and there ar
= !, more than q score Of other Catholic
churches. Protestants are freely tol.
= Grated, however, and there is a live
! up-to-date Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION. There is an American
+ Methodist church, which. I regret tt
say, is attended chiefly by English
people, and there is also a Church O
q England among the other Protestan
y churches.
The city has a library Of 200. 90,
n volumes. It has a National Museum
# of Fine Arts, a Natural History Mu
a scum, a Historical Museum, and man
Is private collections of paintings. Their
h are hospitals of various kinds, includ
n ing one for lunatics that has 1000 In
d mates, n another for infants wher
e mothers can bring their unwanted Off
Is spring and have them taken car O
without questions asked. In thi
n founding asylum foster mothers nurs
rs the children, and the little ones ar
le carefully reared.
is ~
An interesting feature of Bueno
IN AIRES is its great city Of the dead, sit
IN uated in the heart of the town. TIL
IA is the Recoleta cemetery, where tn
10 dead sleep in palaces. The place is d:
IS. vlded up into streets, paved with &C
ment blocks, with brick cutters rur
er ming along the sides. The streets al
as .aoeu WIN the houses OF h dead,
is mouse ana lot Tor each family. Tt
of houses are little marble structures or
re tered by doors of iron network. $
is that you AN look through tf
grat1ngs and see the vaults and co
ms within: The main vaults a,
or ABOVE out there are other vaults b,
a low. IN the center at the back is a