Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-04

still are primitive, innocent of civiliza-
tons standardizing influence. English
and French are spoken only by the
upper classes. The tourist may lose
himself in maze of strangeness.
But with the passing of Mexicos
originality will come compensationS for
the traveler-warmer rooms, better food,
swifter and more comfortable trans
portation, more facility in making the
rounds" more sympathy with the people
through a better understanding OF them.
Now, however, is the golden oppor-
tunity for the tourist to catch old
Mexico as perhaps it never will be
again, If the government continues
progressive and stable, although even
now is a bit late. American jazz al
ready dominates the national music In
the City Of Mexico. The theaters are
American theaters, except Tor the
tempo. Acts move much more slowly.
The motion picture theaters produce
American pictures; large audiences slt
through long talkies and apparently
understand the English. The talkle is
a good English lesson, the actors panto-
mining the things of which they speak.
The themes of the pictures, however,
are not such good lessons IN Amer
lean civilization.
The tourist, too, who expected to
live. perforce, on rare Mexican 1000
in the city of Mexico will be disap-
! pointed. In the better hotels and res
taurants, those frequented by tourists
he will find American menus. a little
short on vegetables, perhaps, but donli-
mated by beef and potatoes in one form
or another, or by bacon and eggs.
Capitals Beauty Rivals Paris.
If the tourist confines himself to the
cfYia IF nf
from the Zocalo to Chapultepec, and
| the unsurpassed residential section near
the latter he will depart believing the
capital more beautiful than Paris.
The exclusive residence district oil
| the hipodromo is q vista of .vividly
| tinted Spanish houses, surrounded these
days by flowers of brilliant color, with
deep blue and white tile shining over
arched windows and bordering the
edges of roofs. The driveways are all
curve, in the most modern style, cut
ting out round islands of exquisite
vegetation at the intersections.
Through the heart of the district
is long rectangular plaza, where
arches rise and fountains play and rich
vases glimmer among the flowers from
which their designs were taken. Here
the children of the wealthy, many OF
them Americans, play under the solic-
| AGOuo eyes VI OdI -SklIlIleu. NURSES.
On one hand rise the Violet ano
Heliotrope Mountains, on the other
stretched out in haZy, sun-tinted vista
lies the city of Mexico. A long, low
range of mountains rises beyond thai
spectacle of bleached stone. The range
lies upon the horizon like long sword
the niched edge upturned. A giant
might WELD that sword by fitting hi;
hand between the white ivory of the
two snow-covered volcanoes, Popocate.
petl and Iztaccihuatl
Near at hand lies the ancient park o.
Chapultepec, a product of centuries
American cities are not old enough tt
possess a playground of such awesomt
loneliness. Montezuma II took his con
stitutionals among the expresses of IT.
woods, trees now grown thick and mag
niflcent. some of them rivaling the IA
nous California redwood through {
door in which a carriage may pass
But there are no doors cut in thoSI
mighty trees. They are left standing
acre on acre, like the pillars of a vas
cathedral of Nature.
On the long drives through tn
pruned and parked vegetation of Cha
pultepec ride the elegant ones in nativ
costume Federal soldiers, rifles sluns
across backs, ride there, too, behinC