Show VERA CRUZ WORTH 4 M Mexican City Has a Number Jf f ff A f tractions That Invite th tho w Wandering Tourist 7 Vera Yera Cruz Is 18 a city of ot it- it painted houses houles of or red reel Woe gf y yellow built close t to the narro streets ha have C grated windows window hen heavy rY forbidding doors h girt little evidence of the time ChanD Int riom with their patios palm palm filled with exotic flowers and by fountains j Modern street ears cars look Jook out ofIn of pta pari V VIn In the tIme same streets with burros burro I M f. f with merchandise fruits and re- re tables and caballeros In their br sombrero vividly colored blanket enormous spurs purs and saddles Even Een the time tropical climate i It Itin in sharp con contrast trust with the s o capped extinct volcano Orizaba towers almost feet Into Inti the theaIr 4 air all above p Although this peak Is nearly near fler ly Iy fifty miles a way sway from froam the city It tJ can be plainly seen Slen from there jn an anI makes a beautiful picture ta white against the sky or catching aI alt the colors of the sunrise l Another point of ot interest Is the u- u dent cleat fortress of San Juan Junn d' d dUlIon which is built on an island connected to the mainland at the time northern eM eMby nl i iby by a n sea wall vol It has a fair fI- fI tenor being painted a pure and radiant radiant radi radl ant ont white hut hidden beneath this In Innocent in- in n. n mantle are are- dark lark and noisome noisome- dungeons Vh where re many poll political pL I loners l- l of ot Mexico have been kept for tor I years Turning hastily from this I ant scene gentle genUe reader readE-r. let us r our steps to the center of the city which is Is marked by the plaza This I Is a large and nd beautiful square fill filled with palms and flowers and watched over benignly by the ancient In stately cathedral Every evening dorIng durIng dor- dor Ing the band concert concert it Is the custom of the time youths of Vera era Cruz t to le promenade around the square on outside of the walk In one direction wl whIle Ile the young g girls carefully 1 ed over by their duennas walk In th Ih opposite direction on the Inside U Li U timi this way most Mexican flirtations are ar be begun n. n |