The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-16


Buenos Aires, Argentine Aug. Is.
-(by mail. 1T may seem strange to
be shivering in a fur coat in August,
Aires.
Not only are the seasons reversed
down here in the Argentine, but the
sun is bit turned around as well.
This young North American matron
fouad out to her sorrow. Looking for
rooms, she insisted on having south
ern exposure and was astonished with
the facility with which she got the de-
sired outlook. After she had signed
the lease and moved in she found that
the sun perversely showered all its
golden favors on her more sagacious
neighbor whose windows faced the
north.
Reveling in eight perfectly good
months of warmth and sunshine, the
native Argentinian has taken to ignor-
ing the four cold months disdainfully.
He treats them Christian sciencely and
| for him the chill does not exist. Hence
all the buildings are built with
weather eye to summer only and heat
| ing facilities are as rare a day in
June or an underdone steak.
Like Crisp Autumn i'm L. S.
mometer never registers much lower
here than on some of our own crisp au-
| tumn days in the United States. 1t is
| just the tomb like chill of the unheated
buildings that gives that fierce trapped
effect.
With coal at forty-four gold dollars
a ton these days, this lack of steam
! heat is all most fortunate for the ma
| tive son and daughter. He winds a
| thick shawl or muffler multitudinously
! hi nd h
red-nosed but content and seemingly
obIivious of a slight catarrhal sniff
She swathes herself and is happy in
rare and costly furs that are cheap
alongside the price of a bucket OF
coal. -5..-. 4r
You can't blame steam-heated North
| Americans, however, for occasionlly
getting cold feet. If they weather the
terrors of influenza a cold in the
head they all finally come to feel,
to feel at alD, that there is more in
Buenos Aires to warm the cookies of
their hearts than its heatless houses
chill their marrow.
No Use for Door Keys.
The sleeve of my fur coat was rip
| ped. The chilly August wind whistled
thru. l took it to the best department
store, which is comparable with any
| store in London or Paris, to be mend
| ed. 1t was done for me while / waited.
AS l had had the high cost of every
| thing here dinned in my ears all the
! way down on the boat, it was with
faltering timidity that l demanded,
| ''Quanto," or "how much ?" The sales
| lady in most correct and courteous
| English assured me it was a pleasure
| for them to do my mending. Not as
yet have l ever noticed any depart
ment store in New York enjoying itself
in similar manner.
The Plaza, a Ritz-Carlton hotel, is
the only honest to goodness high class
modern hotel in Buenos Aires. It's
room keys all have a hefty little ball
and chain attachment, but you don't
| have to get yourself all exhausted
| toting them to the desk. When you
go out, you simply leave the key in
your door. You leave it there whether
| you are out or in, by night or day
and never give it a turn. Love and
| the Plaza laugh at locksmiths and uI
to the time of going to press the fam.
| lily Jewels are all intact.
You would get more of turn thar
the one you didn't give your key, how
ever, if you tried this lockless system
in any hostelry in the T. S. A
A real ice cream soda at Harrod':
department store proves how com
pletely the ocean of difference be.
| tween the two Americas has beer
! overcome. A tall glass filled with
| vanilla ice cream. chocolate syrup and
fizZ has turned the trick.
Indeed, in most all respects a Yam.
| kee feels as comfortably at home il
! Buenos Aires as in the land of the
| stars and stripes