Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . thmus is a verita- NATURE AND LIFE. 83 ble Study—not in Scarlet, but in everycolor of the rainbow! For the dominant feat-ure is that everybody wants to be It, andno one will consent to be subject—at least,not those who can boast of birth and lineage,good-breeding and education, but fromwhom, ofttimes, POSITION, and not theman himself, withholds the keys of the Par-lors ! Morally, the Americans have done a greatdeal towards improving the tone of thelower classes, among whom concubinage, atone time, was woefully rampant. As a re-s
Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . thmus is a verita- NATURE AND LIFE. 83 ble Study—not in Scarlet, but in everycolor of the rainbow! For the dominant feat-ure is that everybody wants to be It, andno one will consent to be subject—at least,not those who can boast of birth and lineage,good-breeding and education, but fromwhom, ofttimes, POSITION, and not theman himself, withholds the keys of the Par-lors ! Morally, the Americans have done a greatdeal towards improving the tone of thelower classes, among whom concubinage, atone time, was woefully rampant. As a re-sult, however, of the enforcement of the lawagainst this mode of living, not less thantwenty-five marriages occur daily on theZone. Finally, I wish to testify to the truth ofall the statements which I have made here—they are the plain truth; nothing but thetruth; even if they do hurt those who areenemies of the Isthmus, and who are inimi-cal to the building of the great InteroceanicWater-way across the favored Panamaroute. a talc of theOld Washington House. A Tale of the Old Washington House^ Colon. It was in the early Seventies. The Wash-ington House thut stood then, flanked onboth sides by stately cocoanut-trees, wasmerely a shapeless pile of woodwork that, soto speak, tottered upon the crutches of itssenility! For, for almost two decades, thebuilding had been the sport and prey ofevery wind and weather, beneath the everrecurring stress of which, as the years rolledon, it gradually fell to decay, until, at last,it listed towards the sea-front heavily. The windows, nearly all of them, werehlind for the wantof glasses; and the lathsof the shutters, moist with the rime of thesalt-sea air of years and years and years,hung loosely down, like so many dilapidatedwooden pendants, with which the breezestoyed and rioted 88 A TALE OF THE OLD The rooms were half the size of those ofits now more pretentious successor, and thewalls were thickly crusted with whitewashcoatings,
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