Show VERA CRUZ WORTH VISITING mexican city haa a number jf if at tr actions that invite the ihu wandering tourist vera cruz Is a city of 0 contrasts its if vividly pointed painted houses of red nue blue and yellow built cloo clofe to the narrow streets tt have grated windows tn lows and heavy forbidding doors which give little evidence of the charming arming cli interiors ah walh their patios palm shaded filed with exotic flowers and cooled by fountains modern street cars look 1001 out of place in the same streets with burros laden with merchandise fruits and vegetables vegetable and caballeros cabal loros in their brood broad sombre ies colored blankets enor ooin spurs and silver mounted saddles kven even the tropical climate la Is in sharp contrast with the an snow 0 w capped extinct volcano orizaba Orl OrI zaba which towers almost feet into the cold clr air above although this peak Is I 1 nearly fifty miles away avoy from the city it con can he be plainly wen ipen from there and makes a beautiful picture standing white against tit taj sky or catching all the colors of 0 the sunrise another point of interest Is the ancient fortress of san juan dullon which Is built on an wood inland connected to the mainland ut nt the northern end by a long sea wall it has a fair exterior being pointed painted it ft pure puce and radl radi ant white title but hidden beneath this innocent tria mantle title are dark and noisome nol soro dungeons where ninny political prisoners of lo have been kept tor for yea years rs cuming hastily from this unpleasant scene senile gentle render let us retrace our steps slops to the center of the city which Is marked by the plaza this la Is a large and nd beautiful square filled with arid and lowers flowers and batched over benignly by the file ancient and stately cathedral every evening during the band concert it Is the quaint custom of the youths of vera ver cruz to promenade around the square on tte its outside of the walk in on one direction while title tile hie young girls carefully ed over by their duennes duennas du ennas its walk in th opposite direction on the inside ILI ii this way most mexican flirtations aro are begun |