The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-05-11

the table. When the orchestra
played a dance the men chose their
partners, went to them, stuck out
their arms, paraded once around the
room and danced around once more.
Then they led the women back to
their chairs and checked them. The
women never said a word. l hope
some of the suffragists will see this.
Gen. Raoul Madero entertained us
at the governors palace in Monterey.
They were selling water in the city
by the carat The day we left Gen.
Madero went to the front at the
head of 10000 Villa troops.
On the way back we went through
| the Villa outposts. The official Mrs.
Villa, called Luz. gave a luncheon
for us at her house in Chihuahua
city. 1t was a large, square, hign
ceilinged house with an inner court.
The general borrowed" it from
some exiled enemy.
We strolled up the front walk be-
tween gun racks holding two dozen
rifles ready for action and manned
by as many Of the generals person
al bodyguard. The first thing that
greeted us inside the door was life
| size picture of the lord and master
of the domicile. It was Mrs. Villas
favorite picture of her war lord.
The official Mrs. Villa greeted US
cordially. She is plain, mild man
nered woman with black hair and
blue eyes. A crowd of beggars
| swarmed in front of the house. She
sent soldier out to them to distrib-
ute aims. A poor wretched, hob
bling fhulk of a man in soldiers
uniform with a Villa button on his
coat she had escorted to the cool
| shade of the veranda, where he could
| rest while the servants brought him
food and drink. Her charities in
LILO C1Iy WSlS S1O1cSS.
We waited in pale niue and gold
| drawing room that might have been
lifted from a French chateau, except
| for the artificial flowers scattered
everywhere. Outside the garden was
| a wilderness of roses carpeted with
pure violets, but they were spurned
in favor of pink paper daisies and
pale blue orchids.
81 met my general when I was a
| young girl in the mountains" said
| our hostess with a smile. "He is a
great warrior, He is the savior of
his country"
From a. member of the household
we heard that the general had met
her in the little mountain village of
San Andreas when he was a bandit,
| that he had taken her to a dance and
| he afterward carried her away be-
| hind him on his horse. Be that as it
| may, she is one of the most ardent
and loyal supporters. She wore
black and many jewels of all colors
in heavy gold settings. These too
were undoubtedly 'borrowed;" a
platinum and diamond wrist watch
clasped around her wrist looked as
if it had just left Tiffany's. Some
body had made an unwilling loan.
The conspicuous person at >the
| luncheon was little Elias, tike of a
boy given to the general and his wife
along with an automobile, some
horses, a lot of bric-a-brac and other
| plunder Elias was the car of the
Villa household. He reached about
to your knee and his eyes looked like
two black beads set in fine case of
| summer tan. He wore a uniform
that was an exact reproduction of
the Villa dress uniform and when
| you met him he clicked his tiny boots
together and saluted exactly like a
| toy automaton soldier. At table he
ate interminable bananas, pounding
on the table in high rage when the
attendant was slow in executing his
orders.
At table adjoining sat four Of
the sixteen boys Gen. Villa was edu-
eating in military. school near Los
Angeles. They were home for a va
cation and Mrs. Villa was mothering
them. They were devoted to her and
Elias, anticipating their every wish.
Later we went in a borrowed"
automobile, stunning big Pierce
Arrow of the latest design, to the
new villa the general was building
on the first piece of land he ever
owned in Mexico. 1t was in the out
skirts of one of the poorest sections
of Chihuahua, surrounded by the
adobe huts of poems. He called it
Villa Luz after his wife. It was
made up Of fifty odd rooms, with