| Show quaint raincoat when rain falls in tropical countries there la Is no mistake about it the rain comes as if it meant to sweep away all such trifles as trees and bushes A man who goes out in this deluge deluga must protect himself but he finds that a mackintosh of the lightest kind lm hit its disadvantages for it if it keeps the rain out it also keeps the heat beat in the raincoat devised by the mexicans Is called a calao and Is so porous that the heat of the body readily escapes while owing to its construction it keeps the wearer dry the chino Is made of numberless long narrow strips of dried palmleaf palm leaf one end of each strip being woven into a light fabric and the rest falling loose the wearer of tills flits garment rustles as he walks and the rain pattering upon it makes a pleasant sound arrived at tile house Ahe he takes off his palmleaf palm leaf hat shakes it and hangs it up to try dry then he be slips oft his chino shakes that also and bangs it up ite he himself Is untouched by the rain but the chino as it hangs up looks like a huge damp brown cassock surely this raincoat Is the quaintest quain test in the world |
