. The Spanish-American republics . s shops of uninviting looks; saddlery andleather work-shops; cigarrerias, at the doors of which you see the em-ployes sitting on stools and utilizing their leisure in rolling cigarettesin the thin fibrous leaf that envelops the corn-cob; these hand-madecigarrillos de Jioja are a specialty of Chili, where paper cigarettes arevery little used. In the centre of the town is the plaza, with the mid-dle carefully railed off and provided with gates, which are closed atnight, in order to preserve the flowers and plants from marauders,petty thieving being a weakness o
. The Spanish-American republics . s shops of uninviting looks; saddlery andleather work-shops; cigarrerias, at the doors of which you see the em-ployes sitting on stools and utilizing their leisure in rolling cigarettesin the thin fibrous leaf that envelops the corn-cob; these hand-madecigarrillos de Jioja are a specialty of Chili, where paper cigarettes arevery little used. In the centre of the town is the plaza, with the mid-dle carefully railed off and provided with gates, which are closed atnight, in order to preserve the flowers and plants from marauders,petty thieving being a weakness of the Chilenos. The plaza is wellsupplied with benches, and around it are the public buildings, thetown-hall and the church, the latter a wooden structure in the Doricstyle, the mock columns painted white to imitate marble, and the restof the church painted chocolate-color. This wooden church is notnecessarily to be regarded as a sign of poverty, any more than theone-story buildings of sun-dried bricks and mud; these materials are. AGRICULTURAL CHILI. 67 selected because they are light and elastic and resist earthquakes,whereas stone or brick would fall and crush the inmates to death; forChili, it must be remembered, is still subject to volcanic commotions,and counts a considerable number of active craters. Finally, we mustmention a fine alameda and broad exterior boulevards, lined withsplendid trees, under which you see the peasant people in the morn-ing breakfasting before returning to their farms—the husband in thesaddle; the wife, in a gay shrimp-colored dress, riding en croupe. Inthe morning these boulevards are quite animated. Horsemen wear-ing enormous hats, prodigious spurs, and bright-colored ponchos rideto and fro, while wagons of primitive build and groaning wheels,drawn by two or three yokes of oxen, bring in square bundles ofchopped and compressed alfalfa, a sort of lucern, the culture and ex-port of which is one of the principal industries of the province ofAcon
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