The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-21

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is negro woman She wears tur-
ban and her low-necked dress shows
her black arms bare to the shoulder.
We leave the market and go 10 the
fashionable parts of the city We are
walking down the Ouvidor. 1t is one
of the best business streets. The show
windows are of plate glass and on the
narrow roadway, paved with tiles IL
is like going through the alSleS or
museum. Here is a jeWelry establish
ment See the diamonds. pearls and
other precious stones displayed in the
windows Brazil is one of the best
diamond markets. The chief stones
come from South Africa. although
many are still found in Brazil. There
are jewelry establishments TO be fOnnd
on every block of the OuvidOr and
also on the Avenida Central. There are
windows filled with blazing stones
beautifully set. There are quite as
many rings for men as for women. The
| Brazilian men are fond of jewelry and
a stone ring on the first finger was
formerly the mark of a professional
man. There are many perfumery
shops, not drug stores, but shops that
deal in perfumery only. They are pat
| ronized by both men and women.
There are also lottery shops. The
| government here has daily state lot
| terry and the peddlers cry the tickets
throughout the streets. Every boot
black sells lottery tickets
Are you fond Of fruit? There are
fruit stores on all of the principal
streets and fruit is sold in front Of the
hotels railways stations and outside
the cafes. You may buy alligato or
pears for five cents apiece and take
| them in to eat with your meals, and
you can get apples from Oregon which
have crossed the United States and
come from New York down to Brazil
The apples will cost you from 10 to
s cents apiece and they are sold
| everywhere There are also grapes
and pears from the Argentine, oranges
from Bahia and grapes from Portugal
There are bananas and pineapples
and all the other fruits of the tropics
as we'll. There are also WatermelOns
and muSkmelOnS and the papaya.
which is fruit and digestant as well.
1t looks like a melon but its golden
flesh is loaded with pepsin and you
can mix it with a meal of munce pie
, and fat pork and survive.
: 1t is interesting to sit down with
the crowd outside the cafe and watch
, the people as they go back and forth
We select a cafe on the AVenida Rio
Dranco and call for the waiter. He
brings US a cup Of coffee which holds
: about as much as half an egg shell
, The coffee is fresh made, and the
price is cents. 1t is served without
, milk and it will tone up the nerves
{ like a cocktail. 1t has the elements
of what the Brazilians calls gooC
2 coffee. That is, it is "as strong as
2 lye, as bitter as death, as black as
ink as hot as hell and as sweet as
! love"
/ have had little experience Will
V hell, but from what / have heard
: am inclined to think the Brazilian
e coffee fits the bill AS to it's sweet
e ness this is produced by half filling
the cup with cane sugar, which i:
more sweet than the beet sugar VIZ
n buy in the lump.
|, Drinking such coffee has serious
e effect upon the nerves. The Brazil
s ianS drink all the day through anC
a they show it. They are never still
y The men sitting about us have thei
d legs bobbing up and down as though
: they were running sewing machine
r II one tries to rest his muscles b,
O keeping his heels on the floor, he doe
r it but few moments before he be
h gins to twitch and resumes it's almos
It perpetual motion.
Is Another thing that conduces t.
# nervousness is smoking. Nearly ever,
h his mouth. People smoke at almOs
: every hour ofg the day. they smok
is between the courses at meals an,
q many of the children are Saturate
e, with nicotine.
is Now look at the Brazilians as the
IS pass. How small the people are an
how lean the men. The averag
le height of the latter is not more tina
OF five feet two and many of the wome
le are no taller than our tWelve-year
ey old boys The women are inclined t
rs fatneSs and some of them fairly Wad
n die as they walk. The men are light
so weights. Many will not weigh NOR
than hundred pounds They ar
sallow or dark faced as a rule an
IN not few are mulattoes. / deSpai
oy of being able to give you the Brazilia
p female tVpo that ono coac nv,