Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-04-10

The waists and skirts of the women
are of white, with much req embroid-
cry up and down the front, around the
waist and across the apron. Stout
white hose with roll tops and ribbon
garters fill in the space between the
knee-length skirts and the moccasin-
like slippers OF soft leather. Around
the head is worn the Slavic shawl,
that form of self-beautification which
reduces the high cheek-bones of the
Slav to pleasing oval that would
honor Madonna of Italy.
The women are both vendors and
shoppers But many a sturdy wife is
assisted by the presence of her pic
turesque man, whose costume is Just
as colorful as her own. His rather full
white trousers are worn loose or
strapped in at the bottom with the
thongs which secure the sandals, and
his heavily embroidered shirt hangs
down outside to a truly Slavic length
The yellow vest, with scores of bright
buttons and gay stitching, is likely to
be worn unbuttoned unless his shirt
lacks ample decoration.
Almost always one is likely to see
some of the gypsies of the region and,
spattered with fire as is the white cos
tune of the Croatian women, they |
seem lacking in color when n gypsy
woman strides by. Her head shawl is
a blaze of Turkey red. The massive
red flowers or other designs in her
waist may or may not DE carrying on
silent war with the tone of the head
dress, but If by any chance they har-
monte, the bright colors around the
bottom of the apron surely do not.
The gypsy woman's main decoration,
besides the bright rings of base metals
which emphasize the proletarlan quail
ty of her hands, Is long necklace of
he huge silver cart-wheel currency
which bear the head of Francis Joseph
md make him popular throughout the
low defunct empire of the Hapsburgs.
In Beautiful Setting.
Behind the city there are lovely val
eys reaching into the hills and livened
Nth singing brooks on their way to
he Save, with peasant houses flanked
y huge haycocks hiding in the trees,
nd along the ridges are scattered the
cries Of suburbanites who love the
lr.
Here, too, is one Of the finest wild
arks In Europe, its vegetation un-
lmed and full of beauty, with benches
easantly located to look off across
lie city and the valley of the Save.
But perhaps the prevailing impress
on of the visitor is not concerned
lth loneliness which Nature has Law
he'd on the surroundings but the way
winch man has kept the place at
active. The tables of the coffee
ops are as spotless as the white
lrts Of the women, and as. soon as
market Is over, usually at noon.
cooDles of the square are polished
they shine. Every bench, lettuce
II or plum pit is spirited away so
1T Its presence may not add a touch
variety to the great gray square in
ich, but few hours before, a thou
~ gayly-dressed people surged back
q forth in the eternal drama of bar
and SALE
Out in the wide plain beyond the
hedral there is an amusement park
circus ground, where the Croatian
SAINT follows his main delights of
ing, drinking, singing and dancing.
with nightfall these colorful folks
well out on the white roads which i.
to their farms, the women toiline
az under the large willow basket
the newly-purchased geese rub
necking from their elevated coien
vantage, and the man, his brimIess
* felt hat, compromise between
ce-cap and derby. with its bright
d around it perched over one ear,
his yellow vest, studded with
II brass buttons until one can
cely see the leather, tapping idly
de his care-free bosom. A yeri-
e spotless town, zagreb emphasizes
labor of women in a way which
nds one Of the electric sign In
n woman is constantly fighting