Show munificent rio t w ON rn 1 1 ip Z talk 4 W 4 21 X A street vendor of rio er prepared rod ty by national G So cloty t on 1 D C bervice 10 DE JANEIRO which recently R RIO has been disturbed by political strife involving several brazilian states basks on the golden sands almost astride the tropic of capricorn to enter this great world port you yon walk down the gangplank and straight out into a formal garden with a big bronze fountain this leads off into a boulevard which in turn flows into a wide world famous beach drive past embassies clubs and palms and geometric gardens dingy docks pawn shops pool halls quick and dirty cafes cheap rooming houses runners dirt smells all the trash and claptrap of many other water fronts are missing here out in the bay the startling profiles of singular peaks rise in their bulk U ue like e elephants sitting in grotesque pose they include the much photo graphed sugar loaf and the oddly shaped corcovado cordovado Cor covado or hunchback rising fully 1 1200 1 feet and almost straight out of the sea sugar loaf Is easily rios outstanding landi landmark nark incoming air pilots if half lost in fog or rain hall hail its familiar outlines with grunts of relief in a queer aerial trolley a dizzy trip which Is a supreme triumph tor for the nervous you can reach its top in two laps the first stage carries you to the top of urea urca there if 1 still conscious you ride on up to the crest of sugar loaf for a view of the bay and city look at this spectacular city from sugar loaf hunchback or any high angle and you too see bee how smoothly in mass form and color it harmonizes harmonize a with the shape and shades of its ter rest destria re riall environment you observe that it Is cohesive one work of art yet it is not a solid city with a checkerboard pattern of bloc bancks ks and squares squeezed into rigid city limits like leipzig or indianapolis something easy loose and fluent in its multicolored distribution makes you feel that rio illo is simply flowing down the mountains about it in graceful I 1 architectural streams then coming to rest in quiet valleys and on sandy beaches seen from the air fly over it and its marvels only multiply it has so many parts sections and suburbs and in its pattern from the sky it looks like a great paint spotted ease easel of blue water yellow sand green trees red roots roofs pink and blue walls walla think of all these colored parts turning round and round like the odd formed bits of colored glass in an old fashioned kaleidoscope then you can imagine exactly how rio looks from an airplane that banks and turns a mile above lt it on a bright clear day back to earth on the famous ave rilda rio branco the unter den linden or firth fifth avenue 0 of f rio de janeiro you meet the city at its best also fa big town sights sounds and smells make you feel normal here and much at home new kew york papers any popular north american magazine chein chewing fog gum from chicago your own favorite brand of safety razor cigarettes fountain pen writing or talking machine sport roadster icebox ice box boi or outboard motorboat till all are here with all their familiar show window placards that greet you on main street anywhere from syra cuse to seattle likewise radio sets crooning to crowds the latest broad way hits bits displays of north american cameras enlarged snaps of local bathing beauties having BrI brazilian lAllan it groups of soccer bocce r players the dark horse that paid 20 to 1 at last sun days races and his popular jockey pictured peeping through a big horseshoe of flowers and rio hlo window shopping here looks in ID on paris perfumes soaps chapeaux gowns and lingerie etchings water colors oils shelves of drugs and surgical surg leal instruments and hardware english rackets bills crick et sets saddles socks hats and pipes and most significant of all the steady march of brazils own manufacturing revealed in huge stocks of textiles leather shirts clothing dillies dry goods toys shoes and food all made in brazil this wide resplendent avenue one and an eighth miles long lined with will beautiful trees and piercing cing the city from the beira mar to the piers was boldly opened only two dee decades 10 S ago to ID the ambitious plan for a better city to cut it through nearly GOO building were razed one ot of its startling aspects Is its sidewalk made up of small stones ot of different colors laid in zigzag zigzags zig in waves and in other dizzy patterns interesting street crowds but it is the people who interest you most especially the crowds who promenade late in the afternoon cor cof fee shops cafes and tea rooms line the avenida rio branco many with wide colored awnings that reach out over the pavement flocks of tables are set out here in the open air so that patrons may sip drinks smoke and watch the well dressed handsome women who stroll by to be admired this Is a custom of the country it is perfectly correct to cast admiring glances and the women do not resent it in fact they expect it and on fine evenings the passing show Is not unlike a parade of mannequins dis placing the latest styles in feminine garb at a new york fashion show Alt although hOuch prohibition Is unknown in brazil very few seem to dally much with the cup that cheers cosmopolitan seaport though it is rio is a most orderly and abstemious place but it drinks coffee to excess what we call lunch is breakfast 1 in rio after this meal the brokers bankers merchants and clerks all flock to their favorite resort to drink coffee late in the afternoon they all go again and perhaps at various other times during the day they drop in for the tiny cup it they happen to be near a care cafe coffee Is taken very strong and sweet as in tile the near east in the cheaper cafes tin an automatic bowl of granulated sugar Is on each table by means of a trigger it shoots a mans allowance into his cup at one dash clash often you see men try it first toward the floor to see if it Is working by his dress alone you can seldom tell an upper class brazilian from a well groomed european you seldom see a man without a vest even on hot days derby hats bats and canes are everywhere ery where some men carry tans fans and booth bootblacks lacks and barbers bar liers could almost claim an essential occupation to avoid the draft in wart wartime irue here along the rio branco Is the voice of the city around these sidewalk cafes aou ou hear town talk which may be to in any one of three or tour four languages it is a gossips free for all and here conversation Is an art as much mu ch enjoyed as music all the lounging coffee drinkers and the groups group standing about wave their hands and wobble their heads in latin emphasis each anxious to make him ham self heard passing by you hear scraps of talk on every theme from the coffee crop and the san paulo snake farm to the identity of the pretty girl who just went by in a roadster united states visitors welcome nowhere from the rio grande to cape horn elora Is the visitor from the united states more welcome than in rio alo Wilet whether ber be conies canies as tourist salesman scientist diplomat artist student teacher resident engineer merchant or delegate to an internal dional highway conference he soon senses that brazilians Brazi lians hold bold our country in high esteem between the two cap capitals t als rio and Was washington liln ton friendly diplo nItle intercourse has been unbroken for a hundred hondred red years when we entered the world war president braz of braal said in his message to congress with our elder brother the united states at war it Is impossible for brazil to remain neutral rio rich leisurely and nt at ease Is not americanized in dress manners or in methods ably she never will he be for here a nt new w race Is in the snaking a racial amalgamation new to ti the world possessing unique social industrial and cultural possibilities I 1 I 1 ties but RIO klo is tolerant and wise prom from us as from europe Kii rope she tildes what she ran can use whether it Is moms or goods Ki nils chis ahls is fair play piny adiong nations brazil zil buys about one fourth of till nil hir imports from froin us anil and we buy hiie ais 45 per cent of cill all slie she exports tr if she reels feels that her young incisi can learn more about engineering or dentistry lo in tile the united kniles lhnn in viroil Ei roiL she sends them tin in here to tn sch sc linol 0 I 1 if she thinks north anserlean Anif Ani iliin erlean 4 apical ip ilAl and managerial talent can improve e he birr r she invitee tapir aid and operating cooperating co ithe sets her public health olli chils to sile side hy by side with Ani erivan doctors in yellow W rr r r int rol |