| Show 1I yonu L1A tb woman1 umber Us men sven to0 one tthbe 0o1ldd town presents a haltf ori-ental hhaallft medieval aaPpPpeeaBrraannccee its few splendid palaces which bbeelloonfgttoo and their fammmilimeMs mong huts of mud and cane witthh dark roofs and one window apiece palmsa lIkrinana passion flowers and other jonica 1 l plants and blooms abound but you meet few people and those are mostly owmomeenn the grassy streets according to a paraguay correspondent have a sad deserted look constantly remind-ing one that the tsoonnss and husbands and lovers and brothers perished on the battlefields or died of starvation in hiding or rotted in prison as thou-sands did who were iaggnnoroarnnatt evveelna of what they were accused or were tor-tured and murdered by the three ty-rants who ruled and ruined the coun-try here women do the work that in other parts of the world is monopol-ized by the stronger sex such as cleaning the streetsa loading the ships trddirviviinngg the ox carts cultivating the fields carrying on the markets etc and it is said that during the long hard war they made the bbeessttaanndd bravest soldiers naturally where men are in the proportion ooft one to seven they are at a higher premium than eliseewwhheerree and in paraguay they are figuratively kept in cotton wool by their admiring female relatilvyeess tyeeaarrss |
