The Atlantian (Atlanta, Ga.) 19??-current, April 01, 1911, Image 16
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THE ATLANTIAN
Our Easter Souvenir will be Given Away
SATURDAY, APRIL 15TH
Free to tea and Coffee purchasers THAT DAY. This cut shows the store
that sells more good Coffee than all other Atlanta STORES COMBINED
C. D. KENNY CO.
Teas, Coffees, Sugars, Rice and Baking Powders
82 Whitehall Street 5 Auburn Avenue
Both Phones
THE PARAGUAYANS.
An Easy-Going People in a Bank
rupt Republic.
The infusion of Spanish blood and
customs into the Guarani has produc
ed a people with the faults and good
qualities of both in about equal parts.
Dark of complexion, with strongly
marked Indian; deferentially gentle
when unrestrained or not unduly ex
cited, careless of the morrow, poor
and honest, hospitable and generous,
indolent and uncultured, strongly
Catholic in theory, but generally lax
in religious performances as to dog
ma—this is a rough sketch of the na
tive people. Asuncion, the capital,
and even the smaller places—Villa Ri
ca, San Pedro, Villa del Pinar, Villa
Conception—have their aristocratic
families, of which the daughters and
sons are sent to Europe to be educa
ted, and which maintain an exclusive
ness that must be almost isolation;
but in general the people mingle read
ily.
In the early morning in the streets
of Asuncion the women gather In their
long white dresses, and barefooted, to
sell their wares. The younger women,
judged by our standard, are beautiful,
and from carrying baskets and water
jars on their heads have attained an
erect and graceful carriage which our
young women could well imitate. Be
sides, when they laugh they show two
rows of pearls and their speech, in soft
Guarani patois, is worth going far to
hear.
When you see Asuncion you see
Parguay, for it is the most advanced
city in the republic. Its streets are
poorly paved, it has mule cars, which
run at long intervals and low speed,
and the hotel accommodations are not
exceptional; but there is a kind of
lazy, happy-go-lucky gayety about the
city that represents the national feel
ing. Paraguay is hard up. Yes al
most stone broke. The currency is pa
per, and the value so small that for a
hundred dollars one receives a basket
full of ragged stuff, printed in Germa
ny to represent some nebulous indeb
tedness of the republic. Gold does not
stay long in Paraguay nor does it often
enter the country.—Van Norden’s
Magazine.
CULBERSON’S CONSERVA
TISM.
"The late Senator Allison, of Iowa,
was ever regarded as a statesman who
was loath to express positive and de
cided views on matters of current po
litlcal interest,” said Mr. Charles A.
Hamilton, a Washington newspapdi*
man at the Stafford, according to the
Baltimore American.
“In this respect he left a good suc
cessor in the person of Senator Cul
berson of Texas, an able and upright
solon, but a man who greatly dislikes
committing himself in any outright
fashion. Col. Bill Sterett, the noted
Texas editor, some years ago repaired
to the rooms of the senator at a Dal
las hotel to ask his views about a few
! things that were then uppermost in
the public mind and, according to Ste
rett, something like the following dia
logue took place:
“ ‘What do you think of the present
trend of imperialism, senator?’
“ 'Well it’s a matter I haven’t stud
ied out thoroughly as yet, but will let
you know as soon as I have matured
my views.’
“ ‘Do you approve of the annexation
of the Philippines?’
“‘As to that I am not quite ready
; to give an opinion now. In general,
I am against the acquisition of un-
i desirable territory.’
“ ‘What ought we to do with the
trusts, senator?’
“‘That is a big question and one
requiring much thought before a com
petent opinion can be rendered. As
soon as I have a chance to get into
the subject thoroughly, I will send for
you.’
" ‘Do you approve the platform
adopted by the State Democratic con
vention?’
“‘I have not had time to get more
than a cursory glance and am not
qualified to say anything of its mer
its or demerits.’
“ ‘Senator, just between ourselves,
confidentially and not for publication,
would you mind telling me what you
thought of the equator?’
“‘Well, Bill, that’s easier said than
done. You see the equator has a
north side and a south side and I’d
rather be left out of any discussion
of the topic. The equator never did
me any harm and I have only kind
and respectful feelings toward it.’ ”
THE CHARACTERISTIC NA
TIONAL MEAL.
From the London Chronicle.
It is not only in Scotland that break
fast is the characteristic national meal
Travel where you may, the first mea
of the day is the one that strikes the
foreign note, luncheon and dinner hav
ing gradually absorbed cosmopolitan
qualities that are not even confined
to hotels. But you never feel so
much of an Englishman as when
Switzerland gives you rolls and but
ter and honey, and nothing more,
with your coffee; or when Frence
makes this into one exquisite crumb
ling "croissant,” with an inch or two
from a yard-long loaf, or when Den
mark adds cream instead of milk to
the coffee and a dangerous piece of
pastry to the black bread and round
white roll.
Yet our English breakfast became
an institution only in the eighteenth
century. Before that only royalty
breakfasted off meat, bread and cheese
and ale. The commoner, such as
Pepy’s, took merely a morning
draught of buttered ale.
He—Would you marry a fool for
his money?
She—I don’t know. How much have
you got? j 1
DYEING REAL FLOWERS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
“Every once in a while some florist
I gets busy and puts some odd colored
| blossoms in his window as an extra
I attraction to the display,” said a club
man. “I just noticed one down the
street. It consisted of a bunch of im
possibly green carnations. Aat first
glance a good many people thought
they were made of paper, but they
got Interested when they found out
that they were ‘natural.’ Now, any
body who wants to have any of these
freak flowers can get them by buying
some kind of aniline ink, any color
desired. Carnations are the easiest
to color, white ones, of course. Put
their stems in a glass filled with the
ink. Their stems are soft, and in a
short while the large veins in their
petals are filled with ink. Don’t let'
them absorb too much color; they are
prettier with just so much. Then
remove them and put them in a vase
of salt water. Lilies-of-the-valley lend
themselves to this scheme also—in
fact, any white, soft-stemmed flower
may be used.”
T. P. HOLLAND,
Manager American Theater.
TROUBLE—ALMOST.
Local Elks are having a lot of fun
with a member of their lodge, a Fif-
| teenth street jeweler, says the Den
ver Post. The other day his wife
! was in the jewelry store when the
phone rang. She answered it.
“I want to speak to Mr. H ,”
said a woman’s voice.
“Who is this?” demanded the jew
eler’s wife.
"Elizabeth.”
“Well, Elizabeth, this is his wife.
Now, madam, what do you want?”
“I want to speak to Mr. H .”
The jeweler’s wife grew angry.
“Look here, young lady,” she said,
‘who are you that call my husband
and insists on talking to him?”
“I’m the telephone operator at Eliz
abeth,” same the reply.
And now the Elks take turns call
ing the jeweler up and telling him
it’s Elizabeth.
Jack—I saw a light in your room
this morning at 2 o’clock. That’s
rather stange.
Bill—No, it was a little stranger.