Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-04-22

nuns and the school is in an addition
built on a convent. The nuns have
basket under an opening in a door,
where abandoned children may be left
and they are cared for and taught to
work and to say masses. They make
beautiful lace, even tiny girls OF six
and seven years. They hold round
wooden pillows on their laps, dozens
of pins stuck in designs on the pillow,
to which are attached as many spools
of thread, which the child hits rapid
ly with her hands. The spools bob
about recklessly, one could not see
with any design, yet the lace was per
feet. Much of the embroidery was of
silk and beautiful The teacher show
ed us a part of a wedding trouseau
which they were embroidering for
bride of good family here. The work
was all on underwear and bed-linen
and the convent was to receive two
thousand dollars for doing it.
Hotels Are Full
There are many large and expense
i've buildings in the city, some of them
occupying block, with beautiful gar
dens of flowers and trees, with courts
in the center of the buildings, and
fountains playing, tropical birds, pei
leans, cranes, Tyre birds, lovely little
canaries, flying about, and strange
flowers with brilliant blossoms grow
ing on all sides. 1t all makes sort
Of fairy land. There are several large
hotels, but they are always full, and
many guests are turned away. Since
the country has grown so prosperous,
with high prices of coffee, sugar and
cotton, many people travel, and there
are numbers from the United State
and other foreign countries coming to
the city to engage in business.
The Americans are establishing a
suburb to the city, a beautiful part,
laid out with fancy park in the
center, with wide avenues and planted
palms, which, although fairly new, is
already one of the prettiest parts of
the city. There are Spanish families,
very aristocratic, in splendid homes,
many Germans in fine residences and
scores of Syrians. and Chinese. The
rest of the city consists of wretched
huts, most of them with mud floors,
and all of them swarming with in
habitant, pigs and children seeming
to be the most numerous. Great hogs
wend their way in and out around
the principal business streets, where
traffic is often so thick that every
thing is held up for a time. Perfectly
naked children run in all the streets
great boys of seven or nine years, and
girls UP to six or seven. The little
donkeys abound. They are used as
beasts of burden, and are loaded with
immense barrels, Or thatch, twenty
feet long, SO that nothing is visible
Of the donkey except the feet, and
sometimes the nears. At night they
make the air merry with their songs
and conversation with their fellows.
Starved-looking dogs skulk all about
the city, lie on the sidewalk and
in the middle of the streets, so that
pedestrians and automobiles have to
turn out to avoid killing them; then
at night they run in packs through
the streets, and fight. Cats sit on the
tops of the thatch houses and make
the night air hideous with their
screams. So it is not easy to get much
sleep, even if there were less car
ousing, racing of automobiles and gam
bling going on in the streets at night.
Yet with all the serenading to whicl
we have to submit, one gets SO tired
during the day, sightseeing, receiv-
ing visitors, attending ea-partes in
our honor, etc, that he soon forget
the hub-bub and sleeps anyway. The
donkey cannot be blamed for avenging
themselves on mankind-the way they
are loaded and then whipped to pull
the heaviest carts-but some of the