The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-15
SOUTHERN EXPOSURES
USELESS TO N. MASON
She Tours South America and
Finds Sun Shine
From North.
COAL Is S44 A TON
A Short, Mild Winter Means
Money Saving to
Argentineans.
COAL is S44 A TON
(BY MARGARET MASON)

Buenos Aires. Argentine, Aug. 15.-
(By MaiD-It may seem strange to b
| shivering in a fur coat in Angus
but not when you adm Bueno
Aires.
| Not only are the seasons reverse
down here in the Argentine, but tn
sun is a bit turned around as well
This a young North American matrol
found out to her sorrow. Looking TO
rooms, she insisted on having South
ern exposure and was astonishhe'
with the facility with which she go
the desired outlook. After she ha(
signed the lease and moved in shs
found that the sun perversely shower
ed 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 ig-
noring the four cold months disdain-
fully. He treats them Christian
Sciencely and for him the chill does
not exist Hence all the buildings
are built with a weather eye to sum-
mer only and heating fIcilities are
as rare as day in June or an under
done steak.
As a matter of cold fact the ther-
never registers much lower
here than on some of our own crisp
Autumn 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 A gold dollars a ton
these days, this lack of steam heat
is all most fortunate for the native
son and daughter. He winds thick
shawl or muffler multitudinously
around his throat and goes his way, red
nosed but content and seemingly OBJ
livious 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
,oal.
You can't blame steam heated North
however. for occasionally
getting cold feet If they weather the
errors of influenza or a cold in the
head they all finally come to feel,
when they get over being too numb to
eel at alb. that there is more in
3uenos Aires to warm the cookies
If their hearts than its heatless
louses chill their marrow.
The sleeve of my fur coat was
tipped. The chill August wind
through. took it to the best |
apartment store, which is comparable |
With any store in London or Pairs, /,
o be mended. 1t was done for me
Thile / waited. AS / had had the !
Ugh cost of everything here dinned
n my ears all the way down on the
oat. it was with faltering timidity
nat demanded "quanto," or "how
luch?" The saleslady in most correct
nd courteous English assured me it
ras a pleasure for them to do my
lending. Not as yet have | ever no
ced any department store in New
ork enjoying itself in similar man
er.
The Plaza, Ritz-CarltOn hotel, is
lie only honest to goodness high class
lodern hotel in Buenos Aires. Its
pom keys all have a hefty little ball
nd chain attachment, but you don't
ave to get yourself all exhausted
'ting them to the desk. When you
D out, you simply leave the key in
Dur door. You leave it there whether
ou are out or in, by night or day, and
ever give it turn. Love and the
laza laugh at locksmiths and up to
lie time of going to press the family
wells are all intact.
You would get more of turn than
lie one you didn't give your key.
owever, if you tried this lockless
stem in any hostelry in the U. s. A.
A real ice cream soda at Harrod's
apartment store proves now COM
etely the ocean of difference be-
veen the two Americas has been
'ercome. A tall glass filled with
lnilla ice' cream. chocolate syrup
i'd fizz has turned the trick.
Indeed, in most all respects a YAM
,e feels as comfortably at home in
lenos Aires as in the land of the
ars and stripes.