Sight-seeing in South America . rvice to allparts of the city. For many years after the horse streetcar service was established, the city required every streetcar through the narrow streets to be preceded by a manon foot carrying a red flag. The principal shopping street is the narrow CalleFlorida, which extends from the Plaza de San Martin,on which is the Plaza Hotel, the finest in South America,to the Avenida de Mayo. The shops are small and theirappearance Parisian. There are, however, several fair-sized department stores, like miniature Bon Marches withsome English speaking clerks. The pri
Sight-seeing in South America . rvice to allparts of the city. For many years after the horse streetcar service was established, the city required every streetcar through the narrow streets to be preceded by a manon foot carrying a red flag. The principal shopping street is the narrow CalleFlorida, which extends from the Plaza de San Martin,on which is the Plaza Hotel, the finest in South America,to the Avenida de Mayo. The shops are small and theirappearance Parisian. There are, however, several fair-sized department stores, like miniature Bon Marches withsome English speaking clerks. The prices usually arehigh, especially for shoes and clothes. Twelve dollarswas the price of an American-made shoe that sells inthe United States for five. This seemed to be the Buenos Aires 71 average shoe price in this lane! that produces so muchhide. The Calle Florida is the fashionable promenade in theafternoons, when no vehicles are permitted upon it. Thesidewalks are so narrow that the stylishly gowned ladies :/--^is^^-:^?;Vr;--. By I. (. M» riaza llolul walk in the street to or from the stores. The popularconfectioners serve ices and tea. Imt no American soda-water. Our American soda-water fountains are as scarcein South America as they are in Europe. The manv 72 Sight-Seeing in South America English in Buenos Aires are popularizing the four oclocktea habit. We were interested in the street costumes of these far-southern brunettes. The Argentinian ladies, when theyare not wearing mourning, of which there seems to be anunusual amount, due to the fashion to adopt it for themost distant cousins, follow the extremes of Parisianstyles, especially in the brightness of their gowns and thesize of their hats. They also burden their faces with asurplusage of powder, rouge, and enamel. With all thisartificiality they have the grace, brightness, and too oftenthe stoutness of the Spanish women. At the head of the Calle Florida is the Avenida deMayo, the Pennsylvania Avenue of Buenos Aires.
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