The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-04-15
A CITY OF WOMEN,
GRAPES, DONKEYS
MALAGA, ANCIENT TOWN, HAS
UNIQUE FEATURES THAT
MAKE 1T FAMOUS.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Reports
Of rnutiny in Malaga present name
familiar to American ears because OF
a luscious grape, but a place which is
off the route of the majority OF sea-
soned European travellers
This ancient and famous seaport OF
southern Spain lis not remote-lt won
prestige in earlier times by the ire
ouent sailings from its harbor to Eng
land, France and Italy. 1t still does
considerable export business to those
countries and far more distant places.
But il renounced tourists to retain its
traditions.
Weather Affects Crimes.
Its white houses glisten in a seldom
falling sunshine on the blue Mediter-
ranean, and a rampant OF hills helps
keep its temperature equable and dry.
These qualities have made 1t rem
devious for few sufferers from heart
and lung troubles but its ar1dity is
hard on nervous patients. Indeed, at
certain seasons, it is avered, courts OF
Justice recognize the barometer as an
extenuating circumstance in crime.
Malaga grows her famous grapes
for raisins and wine and .gardens to
the west of the city yield an amazing
volume OF melons. pomegranates and
olives. The first spring vegetables
served in fashionable French hotels
are likely to have come from Malaga.
There. too, the flowers the English
man cultivates grow wild. Roses
bloom in January and the profusion
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and sweet alyssum is a revelation to
the northern visitor
Noisy but Not Hurried.
Malaga has been called the nolsiest
city in Spain, yet this noise does not
arise from hurry Until recently there
was only one mail day which ar
irving at 7 O'Clock in the evening, was
not delivered until the next morning.
Vegetables and fruits yield their choic-
est specimens, the climate is salubri-
Gus and the sun seldom is scorching,
the peace Of the hills and the calm of
the sea cut off the Malaguean from
most world disturbances. Hence, the
vigorous Englishman and the brisk
American are a source of surprise and
Commiseration to him.
Moorish Malaga of the middle ages
was a much more cosmopolitan city.
Ii had prospered under Roman rule.
Carthage had built warehouses there,
the Phoenicians had recognized its
strategic location, but it was the Span
ish Arabs who brought it to a climax
OF wealth and bedecked its harbor with
the flags of the entire trade world OF
the middle ages.
When Luxury Was Sybaritic.
In those times the Genoese mer-
chants who settled there outdid all
the numerous nationalites in elegance
and opulence Their great palaces
amid groves of understanding trees
and gardens Of beautiful flowers, were
decorated with the intricate grandeur
OF the Arab style. One historian
writes, "Retinues OF swarthy, turbaned
slaves obsequiously waited to do the
bidding OF their masters. Mysterious
eunuchs glided silently through their
splendid halls In the homes OF many
were lovely concubines, some the spoil
OF marauding expeditions on the An
dalusian border, others purchased by
their fastidious masters in the distant
ltidI hNlS VI al I'd anu tli@ I@cSl'
Today's Malaga is direct contrast
to its Moorish magnihcence. 1t is
quaint, interesting, but simplicity pre-
walls. There is little formal entertain
ment, theaters are rather indifferent,
the bull-ring, on Sunday afternoon,
offers the weeks gala event.
Still PLUCK the Turkey"
Romance lives in the evening court
ship scenes, where SWANS thrum their
guitars to win a smile and chat
with fair maids guarded by iron bars.
The bars seem medieval to the mind
OF an American girl yet in one re-
spect, the Malaga woman has long
exercised a modern privilege When
she marries she retains her full maid
en- name, simply affixing that OF her
husband, which procedure makes her
complete married name" SO long that
she continues to be known and re-
ferred to informally by her maiden
name.
Theoretically a Malaga marriage, as