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» '"HE SUNDAY OCALL. (MericansLiveas Thelir ForelatbersDid CenturiesElgo - K W ack e gre e f th St a = ing salesman of must attract nanian chem- er att on. A Rou vered a means which are ographic aper for phe mad - plate of photography. Dinker- yvery is a combina- phy and the etching pro- { to some extent the image is the cuticle ble disc i= clear and distinct d nade a negative, but really itized puper. The impres- ; with the change d the renewal of the sur- a e sort of elon does not we of the tissues face of skin because the substances or changes which have been produced “y the process of photography are renewed sccording to the modifications produced by the “biting” process, just as those of e are. And whatever the mechanical means employed, the results are remarkable. By this means every hu- man being becomes a sort of photograph album. The likenesses of his friends, land- ecepe views associated with his childhood or with significant events in his life, por- & tattooed outl , traits of the great men and heroes whom be admires and many other things may be reproduced beautifully and permanent- 1y on his surface. ind to be pic- | the impression is perma- | trying to upon nts a large stock (or full line') unioaa termed a ery Findigg all his e he said peaking of o vou suppose these Mexi- » of our Yankee plows . it? Why, the first thing aw ha and make the r ng they It fall back and years. It's just 4 noiy m with a stock of ma- hiner would set up a first-class es ment in the States, that is just £ to pieces, and those — are only 1 I'm tired out, when they ex- t 1t all nothing.” men work at h to see one of Dulll the lifeless drudges they ure for the most with the stolidity of the Southern ndian written on their faces. They look if their hand would rest on the plow for all time to come and be satis- in a' while there is a of something more nearly Spanish se faces, but only once“n a while. and the plow are part and parcel; ) enterprise, no ambition. ere. Once Hardly the rc ff less primitive than the plow is ewalk. A peon with a bulky bag er held round his body by a strap, aided by the ministrations of a pictur- esque little girl, may be seen weaving a The children are hardly more than babies when they are put to work. They are not strong enough to help at the plow, but they are useful at the rope walk and the waterwheel. The Mexicans know the meaning of work long before they should know any word but play. | You call Mexico a lazy country, per- haps. You who make the guidebook | rounds of its villages in siesta hours. Re- | member that in the early time, the cool time, while you were still sleeping, these people, big and little, were up drawing water and weaving lassos and gulding plows. in so dry & land as much of Mexico is, the question of water for domestic use apd for irrigation is all-important. The water for household consumption in towns is obtained from the public fountains, which are in convenient plazas, and form the favorite gossiping places for the women. When the women live near the water supply they carry the jars on their heads, but when the distance is too great to permit of several trips to and fro half a dozen earthenware jars are placed on lasso, 8] Tand Where Tife 75 %777 mest prirpitive and irnprevementis AMEXICTAN GIRL OF THE PooR CLASS. each side of & burro, who has also to carry his mistress. The girl riding on the burro wears guaraches, or leather san- dals, on her feet, and has her head and the upper part of her body covered with the rebozo—a long, narrow shawl usually of a blue color, with narrow stripes. When the rebozo I8 drawn up over the head it covers the arms and breast, which other- ‘wise are exposed. catch the slow grace, the warmth of color, If you are an artist it {s the prettiest If you are an artist. But if you are a kind of a sight to see one of these girls Political economist, a public enterpriser out in the brilllant sunshine, her color Or & water works company, then will your one that defles the sun, herself as lazy as point of view be different. Poverty of the that carries her. You will brain, you will cry, poverty, of ambition, and a people Whu deserve the muserles that they willingly undergo. To raise water for purposes of Irriga- tion various primitive contrivances are used. A pair of wooden wheels is often set up vertically and joined together at the rims with pleces of wood which pro- ject at one side like teeth, the circumfer- ences of the two wheels being about a foot apart. On the transverse pleces of wood and between the rims of the two ‘wheels cans are fixed, which, when the ‘wheel rotates, bring up the water, and as they descend empty it into a trench or other receptacle. The wooden teeth, which project horizontally, correspond to stmilar teeth set on the circumference of a wheel the axis of which vertical; connected with this axis are wooden arms, to which a horse or burro is at tached. As the poor animal moves roun and round the water is drawn up and emptled into a rude trough and conveyed thance where it is wanted. The attitude of the horse at the wheel is very little different from that of the man at the plow. The present—the “what is"'—is bad enough and good enough and it isn't worth while to look further. Another of the photographs shows a similar double wheel with horizontal axis and cans fixed on its cirecumference; but in this case the motive power is fur- nished by two boys, who wear nothing but drawers of manta or coarse cotton PEASANTS Ho AND FAM I L cloth. Near by stands a man who over sees the work and in the tree hang the serapes or bright striped blankets of all three. Similar methqds of frrigation are often seen in Egypt and In other coun- tries where ancient customs and old-time methods are still in vogue. Though there are to be s towns of Mes stone and brick houses, n in the cit handso 1 | with | the Mexican | marble floors and fine decorations, peasant’s home is wlmost always adobe hut. clay, roughly pressed into w and dried in the sun. the adobe house is by no means witho merit, being cool in hot weather anid warm in cold. This fact is the argument for it in our | own southern cities, where it Is occasiox ally being used nowadays for handsomo | residences. People wio build with it | claim that the Mexicans and early Call- | fornians knew their own climate. But it | is a far different thing to use the adobe | in conmection with perfectly finished | walls, hardwood floors, heavy doors and | gecure windows from what it is to use it as primitive Mexico does. The ground | for a floor, openings for wincdows and doors, rickety furniture if there be any furniture at all—these are the homes of the people. It is an easy thing to bulld these houses and that means a great deal in a climate of many blistering days. Owing to the large sise of the adobe the labor of building a house is consider- ably less than when smaller bricks are used. The Mexican woman of the lower an The large bricks are made of oden molds | When well made | He is classes wears a skirt reaching to the feet, which are usually bare. When she does wear guaraches, or even satin shoes, she has stockings. Evexn the pretty with the dotted skirt and the guitar has neither shoes nor stock- a short-sleeved camisa handsomely em- over it wea often hite ed ar tha neck and arms; cotton, is worn a plain cover of the same mate- rial. Round her neck and shoulders is the rebozo, which she pulls over her head when walking. the humblest Mexicans are In- fond of music and are able to the the the tha the Even tensely gratify their taste by listening to singing and instrumental music in great churches and cathedrals or to concerts given on certain evenings of week in the plaza by one or other of ~ME. fine regimental bands of the Mexican army. A crowd quickly gathers when there is any music to be heard and stays until the last note has been played Agd it will be there to listen to the last trum: Jaking, Pictures of Jound, Very much ry has been done in the way hotographic records of aps the most important cir on the practical side of this ques- article by Benjamin F. Sharpe. mmixed tone is received in a nator, in the wall of which inserted a very thin glass plate, the natural pitch of which is not too different from the tome, the plate vibrates to the tone with an amplitude having an ultl- mate relation to the energy of the tone. Measurement of this amplitude become easy If the vibrating plate is made to bear a tiny mirror, which mirror forms one element of a system of mirrors constitut- ing a Michelson’s refractometer. is this means of indjcation that a shifting of the mirror half a wave length of light will cause such a shifting to one side of the interference bands that cach dark band will take the position it y occupied by the next dark band. With a telescope and micrometer each band may with proper adjustment be subdivided into 100 parts, giving @ means of recording a shift equal to as little as one two-hundredth of a wave length. It need scarcely be sald that the rapid shifts thus produced by a tone can only be observed by some such device as compounding the motion with another at right_angles, when comparison with tuning York and the making of photo. -aphic records becomes possible, but f:;r details, and for some two dosen of the records thus obtained, we must refer our readers to Nature. The records show fork tones, tones of musical instru~ oises and yocai sounds, -