Show VERA CRUZ WORTH VIS J J Mexican City Has a Number Numbe of Attractions At At- tractions That Invite tho Wandering Tourist J sa w Vera Cruz Is a city of ot contrasts Its i painted houses of red blue and tin I yellow built clone cloe to the narrow streets have grated wind windows ws and aind heavy beny forbidding doors which give little evidence of the charming Inte Inte- with their patios palm shaded J 1 filled with exotic flowers flower and cooled t 1 by fountains Modern Modem street cars look out of ot place j In the same streets with burros laden with merchandise fruits and vegetables vege- vege vegetables I tables tables S and caballeros In their broad i sombreros vividly colored blankets enormous spurs and silver mounted saddles addles Even the tropical climate Is y In sharp contrast with the snowcapped snowcapped snowcapped snow- snow capped extinct volcano Orizaba which towers almost feet into the cold a air all above Although this peak Is IB nearly nearly near- near ly Iy fifty miles aw away y from the city itcan It Itcan J can be plainly seen seen from there ands and makes a beautiful picture standing white against the sky or catching all all' r the colors of the sunrise Another point point-of Interest I Is the ancient an an- 1 dent fortress of ot San Juan which Is built on an Island connected to o the mainland at the northern end by y a long sea wall It has a fair fair- exterior ex ex- i tenor being painted a pure and radiant radiant radi radl- ant white but hidden beneath this In Innocent In- In s. mantle are dark and noisome dungeons where man many political prisoners pris of ot Mexico have been kept for years Turning hastily from this unpleasant unpleasant J ant scene gentle reader render let us retrace our steps to the center of ot the city ly which Is marked by the plaza This d Is a n large and beautiful square filled J with palms and flowers and watched over benignly b by the ancient and stately cathedral Every evening e duning dun dun- duning ing the band concert It I Is the quaint quaint- custom of ot the youths of ot Vera Cruz to promenade prom nade around the square on tte he outside outside of ot the walk In one direction while the young girls carefully watch watch- watched ed over oer over b by theIr duennas walk In th tha opposite t direction on on the Id III t 1 this tills w wily ay most Med Mexican flirtations n 1 n flirtations are begun beun 1 J 1 J J |