Show A milkman in seville prepared by the national society D C the revolution a matter of history seville which a majority of visitors who travel down from madrid and up from cadiz call the most spanish city in spain has settled down to ita usual routine but in seville now scintillating now sleepy Is discovered a bhain not of the drowsing past nor yet of the bus aling present it Is an indiscriminate mingling of both abiding through the centuries here on sun swept slopes the city has built for itself a dwelling place of traditions but they are noi a high wall hedging it about seville takes pride in her glorious past treas ures it becomes frankly arrogant about it at times but her chief love Is life and the living of it her lichen covered churches she holds inviolate biot one cobweb may be removed nor a single crumbling block of hand hewed stone be remor bared but across a well paved avenue a steel fabricated office building must incorporate every of the modern builders art laden donkeys may and do wander wally nally through ev cry downtown thoroughfare but the driver of a 11 must keep his ties open tor one way street signs and his ears alert tor the traffic officers whistle history Is as colorful as one of the shawls that drape the shoulders of her dark eyed as varied as the moods of her people aa interesting as any story may well be that depicts the romance of a town which has lived through the rise glory and decay of half a dozen nations the cites actual genesis Is lost hid den by the obscuring veil which shrouds much of the remote past of the mediterranean and which was only slightly torn aside by the adventuring phoenicians Phoenicia ns and later by the warrior merchants of carthage but there was a roman seville of that ancient period definite traces remain some of the crumbling walla of the city were built under the direction of the caesara caesars the following the fall of romes western empire lingered for a brief three can in seville the jews too from behind byzantium came here to have their home rose to positions of power endured grievous persecution passed but left carved memories of their stay gypsies still there likewise the gypsies came here and here they yet remain crowded together in noisy little and big families in triana the ragged suburb of seville across the finally the moors possessed seville one must say finally because the city remains something of a moorish town saint ferdinand brought it within the fold some seven centuries ago but all his might could not wipe out the orient the picturesque santa cruz district of seville with its narrow crooked streets and flat roofed companionable houses has changed very little in the last thousand years the cites fa and equally beloved giralda Is today much the same as when a moor ish architect completed if in HOG aej the white robed followers of used it as a minaret from which to call the faithful to prayer but seville dwells not overmuch in reminiscences hiie reverses her heroes of olden time but it Is the he docs rocs of today that occupy her thoughts and newspapers annually she devotes many holidays in obeisance before ancient glories but the days before after are spent in widening her narrow streets to accommodate a rapidly increasing motor traffic and in building steel and concrete office buildings wherein to house her ever expand ing commercial enterprises she points with pride to where the caravell caravels car avels of the new world s conquerors anchored in the river but barely a stones throw away electric cranes strive the day long with vast cargoes to and from the earths four corners alcazar the old moorish palace rebuilt to house the splendor of the courts of Andal kings remains much the same as it was seven cen ago but immediately across the street the new alfonso XIII hotel transplants one straightway to the lux ury of up to date paris or london or new york those fortunate individuals who come to southern spain armed with WS 4 u letters of introduction to high officials and wealthy families go away with glowing accounts of the sumptuousness of life of the lavish hospitality accorded visitors and of the very modern manner of living in this only modernized city other earnest seekers after local color who visit seville and in their desire to know their spain live among the sevillanos endure the Incon venI ances of modest spanish homes spend long hours in crowded cafes to engage in endless discussions with the ever talkative attend frequent fes and bullfights bull fights these folk carry away a vivid glowing picture of a seville en fiesta colorful rather noisy highly picturesque average income Is puny only in rare instances does the for elgner come to know the true home life of the sevillano there Is not much money per capita in seville these days to be sure certain of the cites families are immensely wealthy and live in the style of oriental potentates and occidental plutocrats while for eign residents are forced tor appear ances sake to struggle along at a sim liar pace but such folk are a sta cal handful fully three fourths of the towns population lives and has its being and Is wholly happy on an income of around a dollar a day per person in many cases this income must cover the needs of an entire family and some of families need much but somehow there Is always enough left over for the to afford a few hours each evening with convivial friends in a favorite coffee shop and to secure a seat in the sun at the sunday bullfight and for the numerous children to purchase penny sweets as occasion demands from the howl ing huckster who passes the door each morning accompanied by a congenial donkey laden with sticky lusciousness and for the women of the family to have a new imitation tortoise comb a cobwebby lace mantilla and a pair of silk stockings this last because the weaving of silk hosiery has in recent years become one of leading manufacturing in destries dus tries tho people of seville blend past and present in their dress and in many of their customs the high spanish comb and lace mantilla of olden times are still worn here perhaps more generally than in any other city of spain but the comb Is more often than not perched precariously in bobbed hair while the mantilla covers a beautiful head filled with decidedly up to date feminine thoughts and ideas racially the people owe much to the moorish residence in southern spain brilliant black and brown eyes and completions ranging from darkest sepia to the most delicate of creamy textures are strangely reminiscent of ions generations of ancestors who dwelt beneath the sahara sun intermingled with this great majority how ever one finds increasingly large percentage of the blue eyes and light hair of more anglo saxon communities olives and cork seville Is an industrious city many of the cites activities revolve about alie production and shipment of pickled olives and various grades of olive oil for it la the central point of alon for the richest olive producing area in the world there Is an ancient local saying that the only genuine queen olives produced on earth are grown within seeing distance of the giralda tower the soil and climate of this region being particularly well suited to the full maturing of thia class of the fruit much of the cork insulation found in our modern electrical refrigerators and many of the cork disks in the metal caps of ginger ale and other bottled were shipped from the port of seville the world acknowledges no wrought iron more artistic than that fashioned by the gypsy families of triana industries however are not permitted to interfere too radically with her moments of rest and alon lvery coffee shop and there are scores of them in seville Is a nosy stamping ground humanity choked from early in the afternoon until long after midnight indeed one may pass at any time during the day or night and see gesticulating knots of men crowded about cup cluttered tables talking talking |