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HOW MEXICAN WOMEN -
GRIND AND BAKE BREAD
HOW CORN CAKES ARE MADE IN
■ ■ MEXICO.
Where Hard. Labor II Put Upon Women.
Food That II Either Too Hot For Com
fort or Too Touch For Digestion—ln In
' dian Huts.
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[Special Correspondence.]
Albuquerque, N. M., Nov. 10.—
Right here, where the western offshoot
of the main line of the* Santa Fe takes
its course towa'M and among the Indian
towns of Arizona, is a good place to
halt and indite a letter. I have started
for Mexico, but on my way thought I
would take a cursory view of the most
interesting Indians along the route.
Westward from here, scattered along
an irregular line, are such numbers of
Indian towns and villages, substantially
built and occupied by a superior class
of red men, that one might spend years
in studying them and their surrround
ings. They have been frequently de
scribed, and our scientists and ethnolo
gists have found them a fruitful subject
for investigation. It is now more than
20 years since the first government ex
pedition made its explorations, and yet
the students have not completed their
studies of these unique people and their
great mud dwellings housing hundreds
of Indians.
These Indians are shy about admit
ting strangers within their domiciles.
In the first place, you have to climb up
a ladder the height of one story to find
entrance to their living apartments,
and, in the second, it is ten to one you
will be met at the doorway by some
black browed Indian, with a surly dog
snarling from between his bandy legs,
and your admittance sternly combated.
But a dollar here assumes the size of a
cart wheel to the aforesaid Indian when
it is his in prospective, and it is only
necessary to show it to him to have the
frown on his brow relax and the cur
dog kicked howling into a corner.
Once within you are sure to find the
mud walls of the room coated with
whitewash, the mud floor cleanly swept
and both floor and walls adorned with
interesting curioa In one corner may
be a shrine, but in another is always to
be found the primitive mill in which
the corn is ground and prepared for the
table. This mill sometimes consists of
a stone slab merely and a stone rolling
pin, and again of a stone trough, with
the milling slab slantwise against one
side. But always you will find the mill
in operation and the “millers” at their
posts. These latter are women, general
ly old squaws grown aged at their la
bors, but frequently young girls with
bare and shapely arms and little hands,
black hair loosely hanging down their
shoulders and in a negligee dress con
sisting of a single garment belted at the
waist.
I have seen many of these “moline
ras” bbth here and in old Mexico, as
well as in Central America, and they
are always picturesque. Those of Yuca
' tan and the hot regions are more so
than these of the Pueblos, as they usu
ally work naked to the waist and their
apparatus is more primitive. The mill
ing stones consist of a flat slab, called
the “metatl, ” and the stone rolling pin,
called the “metalpille,” both words de
rived from the ancient Aztec; an earth
en bowl or gourd to hold the corn and
another to receive the meal.
By this laborious process of grinding
between two stones corn has been con
verted into meal by these people for
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years,
and it is always the women of the house
hold who have to do it, All the dav
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, GRINDING CORN.
long ana sometimes well into the night
they toil at the mill, stopping only to
make the meal into cakes and bake
them on another stone slab or flat iron
plate over a hot fire.
These cakes, by the Way, are the fa
mous “tortillas,” pronounced “tortee
yas, ” but no matter how pronounced
they are nutritious, thourji nearly as
Much in Little
Is especially true of Hood’s Pills, for no medi
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so small space. They are a whole medicine
Hood’s
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The only Pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. 1
tough ks'leather. The Pueblo Indian,
as well a.s the native Mexican and Yu
catecan, subsists almost entirely upon
these together with “frijoles”
(freeholays) and “chile con carne.” The
frijoles are nothing more nor less than
beans, the round black beans of the
country, which are first boiled, then
stewed in fat or fried.
And speaking of richness—why, 1
don’t know of another article of the
kitchen that can surpass these frijoles
in rich, nutritive material I have eaten
them a hundred times, and if. I had my
choice I should prefer them “re-fritos,”
or refried, with all the pork fat fried
into them by repeated heatings.
Then there is the “chile eon carne, ”
or meat seasoned with redhot peppers,
which only an Indian or Mexican stom
ach san “stomach” anyway. Sometimes
it is called “chile Colorado,” or red
pepper, and this reminds me of a funny
mistake some packers of this warm
meat and pepper mixture have made.
Following the example of those enter
prising firms who have put canned
beans on the market, they have prepared
the chile Colorado likewise. There may
have been no mistake in that; but,
never having seen the words in print
probably, they have followed the pro
nunciation of them and stamped upon
their cans the wonderful legend “chili
oolorow. ”
Now, everything that these people eat
is either too warm for comfort or too
tough for digestion. The Indian or
the Mexican is an inordinate drinker of
black coffee and a perfect fiend at smok
ing cigarettes. I have often thought
that, what with his devouring of tough
tortillas, bolting of redhot chili Colo
rado, and swamping his stomach with
coffee, the lining membrane of that Or
gan must be as durable as that famous
piece of leather which made the dasher
of the “one boss shay” and which was
“found in the vat when the tanner
died.” Anyway the Mexicans, if not
the Indians, are frequently the victims
of indigestion and their skins are as
brown and oily as a smoked herring.
The women have finer complexions
than the men invariably, and this may
be owing to their smoking fewer ciga
rettes—for they all smoke some—or to
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MAKING TORTILLAS.
their drinking less coffee. Again, it
may be owing to the fact that they are
women and ought to look pretty, re
gardless of what they eat or what they
drink. I have seen many of them grind
ing at the mills, in the corners of In
dian huts, beneath straw thatched shan
ties and in the open air, and have al
ways found them exceedingly attractive
and picturesque, with the warm, rich
coloring of their complexions, the velvety
softness of their skins and their grace
ful attitudes If our artists would only
think it worth the while to leave Eu
rope out of their itinerary some seasons
and take a trip or two down this way,
they would find abundant material to
transfer to their canvases.
.1 A. Eijjrkdge
J. C. Berry, one of the best known
citizens of Spencer, Mo., testifies that
he cured himself of the worst kind of
piles by using a few boxes of DeWitt’s
Witch Hazel Salve. He had been troubled
with piles for over thirty years and had
used many different kinds of so-called
curse; but DeWitt’s was the one that did
the work and he will verify this state
ment if any one wishes to write him. Cur
ry-Arrington & Co.
FATAL FOOTBALL.
Now York Herald and All the Great
Paperi Condemn It.
The New York Herald has been
gathering some statistics relative to
deaths and injuries on the football
field during the latter part of last and
the early part of the present season,
and it takes the ground that the dan
gers of the game are constantly in
creasing. As the Georgia legislature
has a bill before it making the game a
misdemeanor tinder certain conditions,
the Herald’s list of deaths and their
causes—from October 13, 1896, to No
vember, 9,1897, is informing. After
reciting the names and dates, it says:
“In the case of Shrue Bowles, who
was reaching with hie hands for the
ball, there was a rush and an oppo
nent kicked him in the side. The ef
fect of the blow was to render the vic
tim unconscious, and shortly after
wards inflaination set in and death re
sulted.
Bert W. Serf, while running, was
intercepted by an antagonist, who
hurled him to the ground with such
THE ROME TBIBINE. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1897.
violenpa that; fatal concussion of the
brain was produced.
Joseph'Kapp, in a struggle against
great odds, was thrpwu to the ground,
rolled ou his back and had hre ribs press
ed in by the living weight, that was piled
on them. After the game hemorrhages
set in and he expired a few days later.
The death of William L. Rue was
caused by the bursting of a blood vessel
in a struggle against overpowering force
of weight and muscle.
Benjamin Hich also died frim hemor
rhages brought on by a bad fall while
tackling.
In the case of Andrew Stasche a mass
play was directed against him, he was
thrown on the ground and his neck was
broken.
Robert Grange was in a scrimmage and
when the players had . separated if-was
found that bis skull was fractured.
Another case of concussion of the brain
was that of Vonalbade Gammon. In
the second half of the game be was
tackled and thrown violently to the
ground. He arose only to go down
again under his opponents, and his death
was the result.
William J. Keating was the victim
of a fierce tackle. When overpowered
by numbers be was burled to the
ground, and literally had the life
crashed out of him.
The Herald then proceeds to give a
list of those who have been maimed
and cripi led dt rlng the same period.
This foots up 26 and this list, the Her
aid says, “might be extended so as to
embrace the numerous accidents that
are daily printed, many of which are
attended by gross brutality and re
volting details.” Taking all things
into consideration the doom of the
game seems to be sealed, notwith
standing the fact that 24,000 peo
ple witnessed the Harvard-Yale con
test last Saturday.
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