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Show NEW WOMEN IN MEXICO. The climate of the Tchuantepec Isthmus compares most favorably with that of Panama Pana-ma being mild and healthful, write Ren Bach in Technical World Magazine for September. Sep-tember. Coffee, cacao, tobacco, vanilla, and eutar-cane - are grown In th region, which ha a population of about 60.000. The inhabitant in-habitant ar hardy and industrious, those of the plain On th Pacific aid being descended from th ancient race of Zapatecos, and boasting that they were never conquered by th Spaniards. It is said that th woman of this race have from time Immemorial been able to maintain aupremacy over th weaker si sex, leaving the men at bom to take if cam of the bouse and children, while they f carry heavy burdens to market on their head; They ar very handsome, these wo-s wo-s men. and their native costume is most ar-tlstle. ar-tlstle. Including a picturesque headdress. |