. Industries of to-day. ing life and injuring the house-hold belongings. One might think that the adobe house wouldbe a perishable structure. In a land of rains, ofmuch freezing and thawing, it might be ; but thereare adobe houses in New Mexico and Arizonacenturies old, and as good as when first built. Some adobe houses have w^alls eight feet were built not only for protection againstheat and cold, but also as defenses against Indiansand other enemies. The adobe house is the outcome of ages ofexperience in a climate of peculiar the wealthy Mexican of to-day, educate
. Industries of to-day. ing life and injuring the house-hold belongings. One might think that the adobe house wouldbe a perishable structure. In a land of rains, ofmuch freezing and thawing, it might be ; but thereare adobe houses in New Mexico and Arizonacenturies old, and as good as when first built. Some adobe houses have w^alls eight feet were built not only for protection againstheat and cold, but also as defenses against Indiansand other enemies. The adobe house is the outcome of ages ofexperience in a climate of peculiar the wealthy Mexican of to-day, educated itmay be in Washington or St. Louis, builds pref-erably an adobe house. If one is built on a stone [103] Industries of To-Day foundation, with hooded windows, far-projectingroof, and with balconies or portals, there is no morecomfortable, weatherproof, picturesque a small expenditure a house can be built inwhich not an hour of discomfort from heat orcold need be spent in all the yean Sarah Winter [104] THE MAKING OF FIREWORKS The American Fourth of July means morethan an exhibition of patriotism and a day ofboisterous fun. It means a livehhood for aboutfive thousand people in the United States, andfor many times that number in China and Japan. In Amxerica are made the Roman candles, thepin wheels, the rockets; in China, the firecrackersand rattan bombs (large firecrackers in whichstrips of bamboo are substituted for paper); inJapan, the finest of fancy fireworks. Other nations have often tried to compete withthe Chinese in the manufacture of firecrackers,but in each instance they have been obliged togive it up. They cannot afford to make themand sell them at the price for which Chinesefirecrackers are sold. A box of firecrackers of the ordinary size con-tains forty packages, each one made up of sixty-four firecrackers. After these twenty-five hundredand more firecrackers have been braided into [105] Industries of To-Day packages covered with bright red
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