The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-08-13
BY f.. NJ. ROBINETT,
Instructor of Spanish Dallas Colored
High School.

BY f. NJ ROBINETT,
Instructor of Spanish, Dallas Colored
High School.
The individual who is charmed with
the beauties of nature could feast to
hrs hearts content in travelling through
Mexico; for 1t Is truly the garden spot
of the world. AS one travels South
different Vistas open up to him. The
prettiest part of Mexico lies in the
region comprised by the states of jail
Queretaro. One may travel all over
the United States, through the Won
derful forests roads of New England,
across the rolling plains of the corn
belt, up and down the Pacific coast
and into southern California, without
seeing any land scapes that are as
beautiful as those in this semitropical
section of the Southern Republic. AS
of yellow green and purple-the
green of the fields in cultivation, the
yellow of ripened wheat and corn, the
purple Of mountains rising hazily in
the background. Plains, plateaus, hills,
valleys, and mountains all are repre-
scented in a sigle panorama that the
eye takes in. There on hillside one
sees an enormous magucY farm-plants
set out in endless rows, the whole
field in the distance looking like a
green board on which in SYMMETRY
cal design lines of little black dots
Rave been placed Winding in and out
in a valley runs a little, silver like,
stream, hidden in places by groves of
eucalyptus. From the river, now ana
then, there rises abruptly a bluff. at
the crest of which is the edge of a
plateau, level as the ocean for a
mile or so then shelving down into
another valley.
Rectangular and vari-colored squar-
es of crops in cultivation break the
continuity of the rolling landscape.
Occasionally a big splotch of pink
ish red shows up to mark the spot
where the little poppy like wild flow-
er, the mirasol, grows in protuslOh.
And in the distance, rising in peaks
and ridges, half obscured by low hang
ing clouds or purplsh vapor are the
mountains really and truly a wonder
land.
But scenery, of course, is not every
thing. One would not like to live or
place invested capital in a land mere
iy because At was beautiful. What of
the climate, the recreations. the COM
forts of daily life, the opportunities
to get ahead?" In my description of
Saltiilo which is typical of all the
cities in this section, l shall have
something to say about all these
things.
SaItiIIo little Gap).
We have all read in the story books
about the land where there is 'eter-
nal spring. Well here in Saltillo one
will come as near finding It as any
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prietor of the hotel where l am stop
ping, said to me in talking about the
climate: when man starts out ar
ter breakfast down here he does not
pleasant morning No. He says "Je-
rusalem What Fine Day. His Is a
conviction not mere conjecture. And
that just about sizes 1t up right. The
summer weather here is much cooler
than in Dallas and the winters are
nothing like as cold One can wear
his straw hat all the winter without
feeling uncomfortable IN the least In In
in the summers and winters.
Saltillo present capitol of Coahuila
and at one time the capitol of Texas
and Coahuila, came into promlnen
during the late revolution as belns
the seat of government of the ca
rama regime. The Imperial Hotel,
where I am at present domiciled for
for two years the residence of Ven
ustiano Caranza, president OF the DE
facto government.
can modernism tempered by the ro-
mantle customs and traditions of old
Spain Many of the Saltillians can
proudly date their ancestry back 10
The barone of old Spain. The barred
and latticed windows are in evidence
everywhere Between the DeWltc9lhe
hours of twelve and one at night, II
Is nothing strange or unusual 10 Sc
thirty or more young men on TINS
street, where / live, standing at these
windows talking TO their "noVias' To-
Ners through these graunEs; ior So,
ciety and custom have decreed that
no Young man may enter the home
of his lover to see her until they shaal
have become engaged and the nup-
tiais nubIished After engagement nc
is welcomed and has free aicess to
the home same as any other member
of the family
Satiub. like most Mexican cities
abounds in beautiful plazas. parks and
garden, The most notable being: t ne
Slmeda, San FRANCISCO, Madero, fuente
and the Acuma Garden. At the en-
trance to this garden stands oeau-