The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-16

founding asylum foster mothers nurse the children, and the little ones are care fully reared.
 There is a great deal of gambling at the Tigre. At all the large clubs there are roulette tables and there are clubs devoted to gambling where the guests pay to be fleeced.
 Buenos Aires has all sorts of thea tres. from the Colon opera house. one O. the largest in the world, to cinema tographs or moving picture shows. The Colon seats 3700 and has a stage which is 50 feet in width and the opening of which measures 60 feet from floor 10 roof At this theatre evening dress k obligatory and during the season the president of the republic and the high officials attend. The Odeon is devoted largely to comic operas, the Soliseo to lyric operas and operettas while the San Martin has comedies and acrobatic shows. And then there are dozen other theatres, including some 'vhe1e the plays are given in ltaliFn. There are five or six circuses and moving picture shows are sprinsing LID everywhere. AL Oile Ol llc titoti'' there is a stage that can be turned into a circus ring and there they have dances, prize fights and popular songs, There are also concerts of classical mu- sic and in the winter there is skating in the ice palaces both day and even ing. On the roof of the Casino is a popular roller skating rink.
 An interesting feature of Buenos Aires is it's great city of the dead situated in +I, l, ,f tl,a fnxxr RpcO- leta cemetery, where the dead sleep m palaces The place is divided up into streets paved with cement blocks, With brick gutters running along the sides The streets are faced with the houses of the dead, house and lot for each family. The houses are little marble structures entered by doors of iron network, so made that you can look through the gratings and see the vaults and collins within. The main vaults above, but there are other vaults below. In the center at the back is an altar decorated with lace and bouquets of flowers. l spent an hour in that cemetery yesterday afternoon walking through street after street walled with marble houses. Some had crosses over their entrances and many had won- derful statues standing on each side their doors.
 The Recoeta cemetery is beautifully planned The streets meet at circular plaza and extend out like the spokes of wheel. As l stood at the hub of this wheel l saw women dressed in black walking up and down the various avenues. Nearly all had flowers in their hands and with some were servants carrying baskets of flowers. They were decorating the houses.
 In addition to these private dwellings there are others which might be called apartment houses of the dead These are larger structures each of which will hold from a dozen to 15 bodies. and there are also chapels as big a church with vaults two stories deep under them A single chapel may have room for 150a bodies. The vaults are finished in mar ble. they are entered by wide marble steps from the interior of the chapel. For those who are so poor that they can neither own a private burial house nor have a place In the chapel there are tenement vaults made of pigeon holes. which can be rented as the homes of the departed. Each pigeon hole is about two feet square and of enough depth to take in coffin. The holes are arranged in groups of 5O0 When