The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1899, Page 31

THE SUNDAY CALL. h Rep by diligen ters, on foa ; den’fn to announce that he 1 twenty r at th T the Americanos were to arrive at 10 o’clock aiso. There were to be thousands and thousands of them, and all young beautiful women. Rumors gpread with great rapldity in Spanish ive Indi S, Y f .hem entertained the ith as uncouth and outlandish as ever human eye witnessed. tattered attire, hang- s about their angular glitte eves, set in s black as night, flashed ons of light and seemed s hideous as any pic- 3, their hy brows h scintilla to illumine face tured in Dante’s Inferno. 1 was presented to Governor Sangines by Senor Padillo at a time when his Excellency was partaking of his mid- O THOUSAND AMERICAN SCHOOLMARIMS AT —=% A MEXICAN FICSTA. s&=— % FHTH A TSHAS AR @ 2 Gorgeous Uniforms, Q 0 Quaint People, (¢ * Outlandish Dances, )5 ;‘ Queer Customs. ’5 0 X TASATTRIDIIATS YO d to 1d his th the Gov the dinner he took oc- the s his pleasure at y American ladle: ntry to and way: ed the advent of these edu- en would be the ing throughout t little hint the people of their ality. He of his State re Junche sat After aciously ilion and xic come to the fles s from the master the crowd, which no bered nearly 2000, h ned to a h overlooking t great plaza adjacent to the tow. n th this was a mor rral, ! were confined some of the wildest horses to be found in all the peninsula. Mounted upon steeds almost as wild was a small army of vaqueros and cowboys from s the line, who wera to show the sitors something of the manner in which wild horses and cattle TEACHERS WITNESS MOST PICTURESQUE FETE EVER HELD ACROSS THE BORDER. —_ O AT AT A TAT T E T TR 0 A TH TR -~ Untamed Bronchos, Odd Wares, Dusky Musicians, Pretty Qirls. TASESASATI NS AN ! ¢ : are caught, tied and handled. As soon as the bars were ta down there was 2 cloud of dust, a wild stampede, and the band of bronchos burst into WELCOMES N 3 RAERICAN [XEFRESHMENT BeeTh. view, forcing their way through and almost over the expectant vaqueros, who, lasso in air, were awaiting their coming. Whirling ropes soon a modern philosopher dog- wn's business to be & granted that this \ful statement, evolved from jeration and study of the us phases, It must T is, s&ay o zeal, and spares no pains unqualified _success. ars ago Pliny the Elder to the hearts of the time and of several hun- rs after by formulating some re- cipes for the heightening of personal pul- chritude, which recipes, we are gravely assured, were carefully followed by the fashionable portion of the feminine world and were found to be very successtul in thelr operaton. to note that nearly me problems seem to have been offered to this celebrated naturalist for solution as are presented by an anxious feminine public to the “beauty column’ editors of our day. ‘“Superfluous hair” seemed to be quite as much the bane of too generously dowered womankind then & BEAUTY TALKS B the two, stallion and the other a nervous little bay. Away they went, out across the settled of all necks and legs one a coal-black upon but as it 1s now, and Pliny accommodatingly gave them several remedies: for the trouble. A paste prepared by macerating the fresh or preserved gall, llver and blood of the fish called tunny, or the pounded liver of the same fish preserved with ce- dar resin in a leaden box, is stated by him_to be an infallible depilatory, leeches burned in an earthern v made into a paste with vinegar. A frog dried and pounded and then boiled in a copper vessel with a little oll; the gall of a hedgehog mixed with bats’ brains and goats’ milk, and “an ordinary viper bolled in ofl,” are also recommended as being effective in the removal of unpieas- ing hirsute shadows on the feminine coun. tenance; and the free use of bats’ blood followed by an immediate application of verdigris or hemlock seed. Pliny de- clares to be another exceilent remedy for this affiletion. Should any reader wish to try the fore- going recipes she must be sure first to carefully remove all the offending hairs with tweezers, as the applications work by contact with the.roots alone, Prematurely white hair may, we are told, be avoided by the use of the ashes of burned earthworms mixed with oll; but if one has failed to use this preven- tive and needs a dye instead, a raven's head beaten In a copper vessel and ap- plied to the head, which has been pre- viously shaven, will make the new crop of hair all that can be desired in point of jetness; indeed, so strong and pene- trating is this p ular coloring paste that we are gravely cautioned to keep the mouth full of oil during the process of application and until the head is thor- oughly dry, lest the teeth also become blackened thereby. A mixture of ants’ eggs and common files beaten together is excellent to dye the eyebrows, and crows’ brains, eaten with the food quite fre- quently, will make the eyelashes grow famously. Asses’ qnilk is said to be the most satls- factory ® face washes, and the writer states that “it is a well-known fact that gome women bathe their faces 700 times daily, adhering strictly to the number,” in this softening and whitening liquld. For spots, on the face, & salve of fresh butter and whitelead is to be prepared, or butter may be used alone, barley meal being thickly powdered over the skin afterward. For freckles several recipes are given, goats’ gall mixed with cheese, sulphur and sponge ashes to the thickness of ho- ney being declared infaliible; while the ashes of burned snails—which are gravely stated to be “of an inspirative nature and possessed of powerful calorific and deter- properties”—are, when likewise mixed with honey, also exceptionally ef- ficacious in the premises. Lanolin, or “wool grease’” as it was then called, was as popular as a skin pre- server and wrinkle eraser 2000 years ago as it 1s now, and Pliny strongly urges its use, together with poultry fat of all kinds and swan's fat especially—which last he states is best of all things for the removal of deep and obstinate wrinkles. For those annoyed by pimples an odor- iferous compound composed of poultry grease beaten up with the juice and pulp of pounded onlons is prescribed as a most successful medicament; and the ashes of the mingled heads of hares and mice, wWe sive Y PLINY THE FLDER 2000 YEARS AGO % are informed, ‘“make a most dentifrice, and correct bad br: X The receipes here given are of the sim- plest composition,and the least unpleasant —to modern ideas—ingredients of the many recommended; but there is most certainly no twentieth century belle who would have the courage or the desire to experiment with any of them. Two plans for general beautification are, however, not so bad. The first consists of a nine days’ dlet of hare's flesh to the exclusion of other meats, which course of treatment, we are assured, will make a radical change for the better in any personality. The second, though certainly innocuous, Pliny dis- claims all responsibility for. “This recipe,” he says, “may seem friv- olous, but to please the women it must not be omitted. . To effectually remove wrinkles and whiten the skin: Take the pastern bone of a white steer and boil it forty days and nights until it is thor- oughly dissolved, then apply the residuum to the skin with a linen cloth.” How many of you—O modern seekers after lovellness—will try. even this? excellent sandy plain, pursued by half a dozem cowboys, who chased them two miles or before they were caught. When k came back his foreleg was g from shoulder to at had left its mark. ing” was next on the it was the real fun of Uncouth-looking va- d to have no bones » break, mounted the ent careering over the ind ludierous positions; “Broncho-b: program the afte a in a the but no matte hard the bronchos bucked not rider was u ated. One of them d d up the h > at the crowd, biograph could have done a land-o b s had that moving picture been caught. . )n the fun continued, with and again, by way of rough equestrian bitions and con- Roberto Machada the most successful and awarded the first Juan Machado was second s brother. In the roping and tying ests Remijo Contreras won the T nd in other sports prizes were awarded successful contestants. Romualdo Lucero is one of the most noted rough riders and lassos of Mex- ice. From the fact that he is now in the customs ice, and also because of a recently broken ankle, he partici- pated only to & minor degree in the contests. On Tuesday d othe ed ared broncho r cash pri only to the Indian games, Indian rabbit: chasing, and in the evening the weird, fant ic dances of the Mexican peons, afforded the teachers a better idea of the old-time native fandango than all the descriptions ever written could do. That they enjoyed the scene ras amply proven by the showers of can pennies that rained upon the floor, after some particularly pleasing dance had been given. But it was on Wednesday night, the last of the fiesta, that the fun reached its height. The great fandango, or bal masque, was given, and those who remained to wit- ness or partake in it will never forget the scene The brilliantly illuminated pavilion crowded with the fairest of the x from Sonora and the Peninsula s furnished by the Gov- ernor’s own band, and mescal was serv- ed by every saloon in the town. Good fellowship prevailed and merriment was unhampered by those rules of soclal etiquette which, in America, preclude ity of a gentleman dancing morata with his spurs on. into the morning hours the . every one happy and content. nd when it ended and the waiting train was reached it was a sleepy, wearied crowd that wended its way back to S Diego, satisfled, but not surfeited, with the glimpse it had had of high life in the ]land of the Mon~ tezumas, W. J. ROUSH. Until far dance