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Their most characteristic article of adornment is the “huipil.” This is a huge white headdress made of a lot of stiffly starched native lace, and is worn in various ways, according to the current occupation of the wearer. At the market it is worn well back on the head, with a careless, indifferent grace of manner. At home it is thrown about the shoulders in the manner of a cape, or yet more like the great frilled collar of Queen Eliza- beth’s day. For religious festivals it is drawn down the back, a wide lace ruffle surrounding the face, thus giv- mg the wearer an exceedingly demure and sanctimomous expression. The balance of the vesture consists of what is known as the china problana, or na- tional costume of Mexico. Seldom is - â€"â€"‘â€"â€":’- into a district inhabited by a race of people that to-day are the same as they were hundreds of years ago. They are a separate branch of the Zapoteca tribe, with customs, tradi- tions and festivals quite as peculiar to themselves as their own exclusive his- tory. There is a total absence of modernism about Tehuantepec, which fact is doubtless owing to its lack of inducements for men of energy and capital to settle there. The irrigable strip along the river is hardly worth considering. but to the native Zapoteca it is all-surficient. Here they have their gardens, oocoanut groves and fields. Those who are so fortunate as to have inherited a bit of ground with a water right live in the midst of plenty; the others go elsewhere to seek work. Thus it happens that Te- .huantepec is a town of women. Here the sex take the initiative in every- thing. In the market place there au- thority is supreme, and they will adâ€" mit of absolutely no competition on the part of mankind. The men are, simply not permitted to sell there.§ They are a superb race of women, these' Zapotecasâ€"tall, straight, lithe amaze-J ons, of queenly carriage and pure brown complexions. Every forenoon the great, square, open-sided market house is literally packed with them.l Some bring native chocolate, some; brown sugar, others flowers and. vege-l tables, here to exchange for ornaments, and cotton cloths, the product of the native looms. "his is the mart where all the petty native commerce centres, and here the women sit or stand . in, smiuesque poses, trading, laughing‘ and joking. It is a truly novel scene, animated by the badinage of these picturesque creatures with the forms of women and the minds and hearts of children. Their costume is a curious. mixture of the elegant and gaudyhthe: primitive and the opulent, all combined l in the dress of the same personâ€"ele- gant because of the rare grace of those who wear the clinging robes that serve as garments; gaudy because ‘of the that a few hours of travel have brought him. In crossing the isthmus ten miles to the westward. There are comparatively few men in Tehuantepec, the great majority of the male popula- tion being absent most of the time at work on the plantations beyond the mountains which divide the isthmus. As the traveler leaves the railway sta- tion and goes into the town he will at once remark the changed surroundings Centuries ago, a wandering tribe of Zapotecas found this stream, built their town upon its borders and re- claimed a narrow strip of its valley that reaches down to the Pacific coast, ot republic a few communities that steadfastly cling to their inher- ent usages. Such a community is Te- where ‘the Teh-ua-ntepec River empties into the Pacific. Although in the heart of a country that is dry and sterile, the margins of its river can be irrigated and there it' is a picture of fertility and plenty. Fields of sugar cane Spread along on either side, groves 0’5 stately cocoanut palms r tle théir Iona “Hm 2.---.. _L ,, ' The town of Tehuantepec fills the whole valley of the river. and contains together with its surrounding “bar- rios,” some 12,000 inhabitants. On the south it climbs a rocky hill several hundred feet above the river, and from the door yards of the houses, perched upon the rocks, a fine view may be ob- trained. Lofty, round-crested moun- twins arise in the distance, the blueish hints of their barren sides shading gradually down into the dull brown of the surrounding plains, through which desert waste runs a slender rib- bon of green, marking the course of the Tehuantepeo. me their long, crisp, green plumes above them. and native huts with half- naked children about them are hidden in the shade of mango, orange and lime Such outside starched, was universally worn throughout Mexico. It was the old familiar mantilla. It is a source of the greatest regret on the part of every one who visits the republic that the senorita has so generally laid aside this graceful ooiffure and adepted Paris millinery in its stead. It mat- ters not how richly trimmed they may be, these fashionable modern hats seem out of place in Old Mexico. Half the charm of the country lies in its antiquity, its quaint and individual customs; and when a custom is so universally becoming as is the man- tilla to the Mexican senorita’s face, it seems a real misfortune to give it up. With the interchange of commodities pubhcs there will, reater or less in- but we fear the 1w..-hJ - Tehuantepec is probably the ouly town in Mexico where laees and fabncs or native drawn work'stlll fprm an es- sential feature in thexr sectlonal garb Until of recent years _a .head dress closely allied to the “hmpfl,” except- ing that it was usually black and un- __..:.-A~â€"nn‘]w (Irnrn sign that may be found. there in great quantity and perfection is the “cross and crown.” This has the small Greek cross in one square and the wreath or crown in another, with squares of the original material at in- tervals in between. It is one of the prettiest and most serviceable of the designs now made, and one that is emi- nently characteristic of the very re- ligious community where it is found. It is a great loss to the art that the other ancient stitches have been drop- ped, for the tMe was when they were the property of states and bishoprics. In former times the windows and beds of all the gubernatorial and ecclesias- tical palaces throughout the republic were draped with these exquisitely wrought fabrics. each embodying, among other quaint conceits, the particular design emblematic of the locality- . “Lg..- in- a be accounted for by the remote loca- tion of the community. There old de- signs are the rule rather than the ex- ception. One hisroricel _stitch or de- Tehuantepec is perhaps the one ex- ception to the foregoing rule among all the towns where drawnwork is ex- tensively mads. This fact can _only soni assurte himtlwith their most win- .e cour esies at every 'ece is mu innit-o y fuerteâ€"very patty and strongâ€"without much regard for truthfulness. It is all cheap, how- BVPI’. at the prices asked for it, consid- ering the amount of work and the time. spent upon it; but a few good specimens are a much better invest- ment than a large collection of inferior work. _It is, in the first place, beauti- ful Ln Itself; it is lasting, and it is genuine in all that it claims to be. It is no new invention with which to allure the tourist, but represents an industry as old at least as the Spanish invaswn and settlement of the country. Neither is it a work that has deterior- ated. with the modern invasion of Mexwo, for, while it is true that a great quantity of cheap drawnwork is made and offered for sale at a low price, the fact remains that work as fine as ever was made in Mexico can be found today, if one knows where to look for it and makes known that he desires the very finest article. Specimens are constantly being exe- cuted that were never heretofore ex- celled for beauty of design and per- fection of skill. But there is a sad oversight on the part of both manu- facturers and dealers in drawnwork in Mexico that can, perhaps, be realized only by a visitor from the states or some other foreign country. This is the absence of old historical stitches in the designs now to be found in the markets. Systematic inquiry of the foremost dealers and among the drawnwork makers themselves in the City of Mexico for such old and form- erly well-known stitches as the "Mar- guerite," "Guadalupe,” etc., has elicit- ed the invariable answer that they were no longer in demand. The state- ment is undoubtedly true, for not a single specimen of the two stitches mentioned could be found and the deal- ers did not even know them, while the old perfiladoras shook their neads sad- ly and said: “No, we have no old stitches; nobody wants them any more. The dealers encourage us to form new stitches and make new com- binationsâ€"anything for variety." thread with that which is loose, un- even and poorly finished at the corners can the difference in their relative values be appreciated. All grades of the work are offered at the railroad stations by the persistent peddlers. who congregate there upon the incom- ing of the trains, but the purchaser must depend upon his own judgment a'sqto the quality. _ The native senoras cans are so just y celebrated. In Te- hluanpepec, as in some other communi- ties, It is the sole occupation of a large there the passer-by can scarcely look into an open door without seeing the frame with the linen stretched in it, and the household, of_a11 ages, seated mound it, some pulling threads out and others weaving in the various fig- “mic [l‘nainly by the ‘Tahuan'te- ' REMARKABLE SHOOTING. The tallow candle which is shot through a door must hide its head beâ€" fore a seven and a half ounce plug of clay which has been so tired as to per- forate an iron plate an inch thick. The velocity of the clay plug was meme-.0115. It has been estimated that the speed necessary must be over eighteen hundred feet a second. Ex- periments of this kind were conduct- ed by Capt. Cooper Key, of the British Army, at the Royal Arsenal. A spe- cial gun was employed and pressed cy- linders of raw dry clay three inches long and two inches in diameter were used. Eventually one of these plugs went through a cast-iron plate one inch thick from a distance of not more than twenty-five feet. The Duchess of Fife, the daughter of the Princess of Wales. has undertaken a Herculean job. It is nothing less than the destruction of the English fashion of going decolette promiscu- ously. The English women expose themselves more than the women of any other civilized nation, despite their boasted prudery. The women of wick- ed France, surprising to state, have long since abandoned the low-necked gown for ordinary events. Yet their English and American sisters continue to abbreviate their bodices at every possible chance. The Duchess of Fife does not frown the decolette down entirely; she merely maintains that at common entertainments, such as at the theater, the seaside or at ordinary re- ceptions, a yard or two of shoulder, neck and arm are exposed needlessly. At the first night of. some great opera or play she would go with her gown cut low, but despite the Queen and the fashions of all the world, she must say that on some occasions this dress is entirely out of place. Just what ef- fect her crusade will have is hard to predict. The Queen is firmly set for the low-necked style, and will allow no lady to be presented at her court; unless so attired, yet the Duchess of} Fife is quite a leader in society, and:I is supposed, in addition, to have thei sympathy of her mamma, the Princess of W ales. It may be doubted whether in the whole world there is a more mournful spectacle than these pamted and be- dizened blind girls of Canton. Death- is the on! y possible means of time. escape, and kindly nature sees to it in most cases that this relief comes swiftly. iBut a blind girl! From the cradle she knows nothing but neglect, abuse and contemptuous disdain. Father and mother and brothers and sisters, if she happens to have any, unite to make her life a burden. Her days are spent: in drudgery and her nights in that darkness which with the blind differs from the day only because it is quiet. And it is then that the real life of acute misery begins. The hair is pfas- tered with perm-med ointments and ornamented with gaudy artificial flow- ers, the cheeks are painted thick with rouge that lies in patches over a coat- ing of powder, which lends to the face 34 ghastly hue. The blind, expression- The woman who owns these wretch- ed ones rarely retains any girl who has outlived the bloom of youth-«say 18 years of age at the outsideâ€"and every night in the streets of the city you may see these bags, accompanied by their creatures, who play, sing and endzewvor to be as attractive as they know how. is then Bold outright to one of- a class of women who make this trade in blind girls their business. The women who control these piti- a’ble girls have in many cases grown rich by their agency, but for the girls themselves there is no hope, no fu- ture, no release. It IS absolute slav- ery, and of the most revolting na- ’By the time she reaches the age of 14 she has been taught to sing, to play upon some instrument, and she Awful Inc to Which The: Arc Condemn- ed In China. There is, perhaps, no fate much sad- der $113.11 to be born a blind girl in the Chinese Empire. be born just a girl. For in the eyes of Orientals woman commands small respect, and the advent of a girl baby is viewed by people in the humbler walks: of life as a calamity for which the only compensation is the fact that later on she will be a saleable commod- ityâ€"if she grows to be fair, according to Chinese standards. less eyes are emphasised by Lhe~- livid blue that is used in this pathetical- ly grotesque “make-up," and the ef- fect of the whcle is heightened by the gay, multi. colored gowns in which these travesties on mirthfulness are clad. st: DRESS REFORM. BLIND GIRLS. ,w‘."fi‘r The gross expenses of the State of New York in the year 1899 will, it is computed, amount to $25,(X)0,000. of which nearly ten per cent. will be necessary to pay the deficits of deâ€" partments which exceeded in 1898, or in previous years. the appmptiauon made for them. . ’ Thomis A. Edison is‘mOST, particular as to detail. For instance, in selecting bamboo fibre for use in eiectric ight bulbs he first (oilec'ted .a specimen of every kind knoun to science. "For allay-five years,” says Senator Hoar,” "1 have never missed, while in this country, my Sunday morning breakfast of oodiish balls. Can anyone accuse me of being a traitor to New England?" The inzorporation papers for the new women’s hcsL-ital in Brooklyn, which Dr. Skene and his friends are soon to erect, set forth that the institution is to be known ous the Skene Hoslzital tor Self-supporung Women. The American Bible Society has in the last 83 years issued 61,000,000 vol- umes of the Bible. This society is at present in need of funds with whin-h go meet the increasing demands for copies of the Scriptures. According to the Mazet Police Bill, which has become a law, no police commizsioner or officer of Lhe New York force may be a "member of any political club, assmiaiion, society or committee." The late Mr. Henry B. Hyde, presi- dent of a New York insurance com.- puny, had for years received one 01 the largest salzuies ever paid to any business man in the worldâ€"$100,00d per annum. Miss Helen Gould has purchased Lyndhurst, the country home of her father, the late Jay Gould. The pro- perty is in Terrytown, consists of 244 acres, and the price paid, it is under- stood, was $344,000. The debt of titles in New Jersey in shown by facts and figures compiled by the Bureau of Statistics and Lab- om L0 be in the aggregate 869 ,370,094. an increase 01' nearly 520,000 000 ovex 1890. ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. During Manh and April the export 0f manulactured goods from this coun« try exceeded that of the same period last. year by nearly $15,000,000. The [Ola] amount of the gifts and bequests of philanthropic people and the United SLuLes‘ equalling or above $5,003 made in 1838, exceeds 838,080,000 WHM [INCH 8AM l8 M. Doors and windows made at Tacomt go to England. Africa, and all part: of America. St. Louis expects to hold an Exposi- tion in 1903 to celebrate the centennial of the Louism'na punch-use. The Minneapolis mills make 14,000.- (LOO barrels of flour a year, and con- sume 60,0C0,000 bushels of wheat. The next census of the United States which will be taken. in June, 1900, is expetted to show a population of 80,- 000000. ¢ $50,030 to the fund for an engineering laboratory at Stevens InsL'LLute, Hoboâ€" ken. N. J. A new aotton factory is to be erect- ed at Wilmington, N. C. It gill oper- ate i0,00'd syniles and 500 loans, 31% ing employment to 330 upexatives. The Monadnock block, Chicago, is said to have a daily pOpulation of A An- Chi saga have been increased from. 5 to 30 per cent. After his trip to Germmy Senator Hanna will make a tour of Italy. stop- ang several weeks at Rome. The Arkansas Legislature has passed a. game law thaL will subject Lo. 3 fine a woman wearing a stuffed bad on her hat. Augustus J. C. Hare has a room tux- nisbed with articles formerly the pro- perty of Pope Pius IX. There are 42,893 Baptist churches in the United States, an increase of 500 over the number reported last year. Lyni-hing in the UniLed States numbered 106 in 1897 and 127 in 1898. :étnkze January 15L, 1859. there have been 31. A letter from Washington says that six detectives are always on duty to keep Pres-idem. McKinely from harm through cranks or fanauvs. Neighborly Interest In His Doingsâ€"Mm of Moment and {arch Gntluted In. I'll! Daily Record. There are now about 70.“ Italians in New York. The crop reports from the North- west continue to be very good. There is great activity about the yard of Uhe Chicago Shipbuilding Com- pany at South Chicago. The hailswrms during a Nebrasln storm a few days since were so large that many birds were killed by them. Tammany still goes on raising 331‘ arias. in spite of high taxes. In 1886 the Erie canal carried to tide- water 1,489,COJ tons of vegetable food; Ln 1897 it carried. but 744,000 tons. The growth of the churches in New York city in the p351. year has been phenomenal, the membership having more than doubled. The wages of about Andrew Carnegie has given men in