. Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana . carts, the sides of which are composed of netting, lenda busy action to the scene; the driver is dressed in a skin jacket braided withsilver cord, wears high buff boots, a large gray sombrero bound with silver laceand cord, a blood-red rayah or waist-belt which forms a bright contrast withthe surrounding greens and whites. Here and there velvet eyed senoritas arepeeping at us through the gaily striped awnings of their ll ^~—-^ i balconies. The ladies indulgein cigarettes and do not hidetheir taste in this res
. Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana . carts, the sides of which are composed of netting, lenda busy action to the scene; the driver is dressed in a skin jacket braided withsilver cord, wears high buff boots, a large gray sombrero bound with silver laceand cord, a blood-red rayah or waist-belt which forms a bright contrast withthe surrounding greens and whites. Here and there velvet eyed senoritas arepeeping at us through the gaily striped awnings of their ll ^~—-^ i balconies. The ladies indulgein cigarettes and do not hidetheir taste in this respect. Reclining in their hammocksor in cane chairs, the daugh-ters of Vera Cruz shine throughthe curling smoke of a fragranttobacco and laugh at los Amer-icanos who gaze upon thischarming picture with admira-tion for the women and sur-prise at the us go to the market place ;behold the brilliant assortmentof vegetable colors, the brightyellows, the greens, the redsand purples shine in the samelight or are modified by theshade of a large parasol anawnino; or a TOETILLA MAKEE. 24 The Indian women stretched upon mats m a nonchalant pose, watch theirstock of red popper-pods, tortillas, granadas, or cocoanuts, melons and otherfruits. Ranchcros dismounted from their little dapper horses are engaged inmarketing. In the open air are shoemakers busily at work ; passing by com-mercial houses we see merchants and trades people negotiating. Tliere isnot a more enterprising set of business people in the country than can befound at Vera Cruz. Tliere is very little work done by day, but at night andfar into the morning they can he seen hard at work by candle light. The Galle Oentrale is the principal thoroughfare; through it passes ahorse railway, the fare is a 7eal twelvc-and-a half cents. One street runsparallel with the Calle Centrale the entire length of the city (about a mile),and two shorter ones fill out the arc that the rear wall makes. Eight or tencross these a
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