. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. g the young folks in this vast country of beautiful customs. 280 MEXICO The women of this country are gentle, beautiful, tender, loving mothers, graciousand gifted, devoted to their husbands, and make their home-life all that is tobe desired. In 1519, Cortes found the people of Toluca the most prosperous and ad-vanced of the subjects of Montezuma. From the deposits of precious stones inToluca the Spanish had a splendid revenue and the mountain sides yieldedemeralds, sapphires and garnets for the markets of Europe. Near t
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. g the young folks in this vast country of beautiful customs. 280 MEXICO The women of this country are gentle, beautiful, tender, loving mothers, graciousand gifted, devoted to their husbands, and make their home-life all that is tobe desired. In 1519, Cortes found the people of Toluca the most prosperous and ad-vanced of the subjects of Montezuma. From the deposits of precious stones inToluca the Spanish had a splendid revenue and the mountain sides yieldedemeralds, sapphires and garnets for the markets of Europe. Near the city may beseen the stone foundations laid for the structure of a home which the Conquerorbegan for the comfort of his old and wounded soldiers. This plan was notcarried further on account of the changes in the fortune of this ambitious is a splendid automobile road which leads from Mexico City to Tolucaand it is very popular on account of the beautiful scenery. Many tourists findthis a pleasing trip to make. Leaving the capital, one passes Chapultepec and. NORMAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. all the outlying villages of the Valley of Mexico. Old temples rise majesticallybefore the traveler and the swift ride up the Sierra Madre over canons on the MEXICO 281 mountain crest looking down hundreds of feet into the valleys one has a visionof Toluca that can hardly be described. In going there from Mexico City,the way leads down thebeautiful Paseo de laReforma and takes onethrough Tacubaya andover a great mountainwall. The climbing be-gins to get very steepespecially after leavingthe pine belt. The firtrees in this region re-semble the hemlockspruce but have a dif-ferent arrangement ofthe needles. Polypo-dium ferns grow in tuftson every hand and car-dinal flowers and blue tana-gers fly about every-where. There are alsosparrow hawks evenmore beautiful in plum-age; doves unusuallybrilliant in color andparrots of every hue and variety. On the crest of the mountain that
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