Show ahi iams isms 4 wit L E ezat I 1 1 I 1 I 1 W I 1 aa it INZ 12 41 x A milkman in seville prepared by the national society D C tile the resolution a matter wier of history which a majority of visitors who travel down from madrid and up front from cadiz call file alost spanish city in spain has settled down to its usual routine but in seville now scintilla scintillating scintillation tin g now sleepy Is discovered a 0 spain spa I 1 n not of the drowsing past nor yet act of the bustling present it is an indiscriminate mingling of both abiding through the centuries her here e on sun eun swept slopes the city has built for itself a di dwelling Nelling place of traditions but they are not a high wall annall hedging it about seville takes tabes pride in her glorious past treasures 1 it becomes frankly arrogant abigt it at times but her chief love is life and the liang ih ing of it her ber lichen covered churches she holds inviolate not one cobweb may be ie moved lero removed oved nor a single crumbling bloth block ot of hand hewn stone he be re mortared but across a well paved avenue a steel fabricated office building must incorporate every convenience of tile the modern builders art laden donkeys may and do wit wander 13 willy nilly through every downtown thoroughfare but the river driver of a limousine must keep his eyes open for e gray street signs and ills his ears alert for the traffic officers whistle history Is as colorful as one of the silken shawls that drape the shoulders of her dark eyed seno ritas as varied as the moods of lier her people as interesting as any story glory may well be that depicts tile 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 hidden by the obscuring veil which shrouds much of the remote past of the mediterranean and which was only slightly torn aside by the ad venturing phoenicians Phoenicia ns and later by ithe warrior merchants of carthage f but there was a roman seville bof of that ancient period definite Ste traces remain some soma of the crumbling nails ails of the city were built under the direction of the caesars caesara Cae sars the Q following the fall of i blomes western empire lingered for all a brief three centuries in seville the T 11 e jews too from behind byzantine came here to have their hume home rose to positions of power endured grievous persecution passed but left carved memories of their stay if ii J gypsies still there I 1 t alke likewise ise the gypsies came here 4 and here they yet remain crowded crowded together in noisy little and big fam illes in triana the ragged suburb of seville across the Wl 71 nally the albors possessed seville one roust must say finally because tile the city remains toda today y something of a moorish town saint ferdinand abrought brought it within the christian told fold some seven centuries cen turie ago but all its might could not dot wipe out the orient the picturesque santa cruz ata brict of seville with Us its narrow crooked streets and flat roofed companionable houses has hag changed livery little ID tile lie last thousand years the cites famous and qually equally beloved giralda Is today much uch the same as when a moorish architect completed it la a 1100 1190 and the e white robed followers of 0 mohammed 10 used it as a 0 minaret from which aich to call the faithful to prayer f but seville dwells not overmuch to reminiscences bences she re versus vs her eroes of olden time but it Is the lh heroes eroes of today that occupy her thoughts bought and newspapers annually behe he devotes many holidays in obel ance nee before ancient glories but the lays ays before and after ile are spent RI in widening her narrow streets to ac a rapidly rat idly increasing motor m 0 or traffic had and in building bled and concrete bonert te office buildings wherein to ouse her ever expanding commercial enterprises ja I 1 slie she points with pride to whore where the ithe caravell caravels earn car avels els of tile tiie new worlds conquerors anchored in the gua river but barely a bhones throw away electric cranes strive the th e day long vast cargoes to and d from tile the earths four corners I 1 alcazar tile tho old moorish dalre J rebuilt 0 to o house the splendor ip lendor of if the courts 0 of f Andal kings king remains nueh the same as aa it was se be en cen durics ago but immediately across the street the new alfonso XIII hotel hote tel transplants one straightway to the luxuries of up to date paris or london or new york those fortunate individuals who conic come to southern spain armed with letters of introduction to high boffl cl ceils ils and wealthy Nc althy families go away with glow ing accounts of the sumptuousness of life of the lavish hospitality pita lity ac cordel visitors and of the very modern manner of living in tills this only superficially modernized city other earnest seekers after local color who visit and in their desire to know their spain me anion among the sevillanos SeM SeNi llanos endure the inconveniences of modest spanish homes spend long hours irr crowded cafes to engage in endless discussions with the ever talkative hab etues attend frequent festivals and bullfights bull fights these foll folk carry away a vivid glowing picture of a seville en flesta fiesta colorful rather noisy highly picturesque average income Is puny only on Y in rare instances does the foreigner 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 tile the cites families are immensely wealthy and live in the stile of oriental potentates and occidental ci plutocrats while foreign residents are forced for appearances sake to struggle along at a similar pace but such folk are a statistical handful fully three fourths of the towns population lives and has its being and Is wholly happy on RD an income of around a dollar a day adny per person in many cases this income must cover the needs of an entire family and some of families need deed much nut but SO somehow Debow there Is at al ways enough left over for the to afford a few hours each evening with convivial friends in a favorite coffee shop and to secure a sent seat in the sun at the sunday bullfight and for the n numerous u berous children to purchase penny sweets as occasion demands from the howling huckster who passes the door each morning accompanied by congenial donkey laden with sticky lusciousness and for the women of tile the family to have a new imitation tortoiseshell tortoise shell 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 industries the people of seville blend past pasi and present in their dress and in many of their customs the high spanish comb and lace mant mantilla lila of olden times are still worn here perhaps more generally than in any an v other city of spain put but the c comb Is more often than not perched precariously cariou carlou sly in modernly bobbed hair while the mantilla covers a beautiful head filled filed with decidedly up to date feminine thoughts and ideas olives and cork seville Is an industrious city many lany of the cites activities revolve about tile the production and shipment of pickled olives and various grades of olive oil for it Is the central point of distribution for the richest ollie olle producing area are 1 in the world there Is an ancient local saying s a ying that the only genuine queen olives produced on earth lire are grown within seeing distance of tile the giraldi tower the hie soil and climate of tills this region being particularly well suited to tile lie full maturing of this class of the fruit much alch of the cork insulation found in our modern electrical refrigerators and many of tile lie cork disks in the metal caps of ginger RIL ale riland and other were shipped from tile the port of seville the world acknowledges no wrought iron more artistic than that fashioned b by Y the j gypsy families of triana industries however are not permitted to interfere too radically alth ili tier moments of rest and relaxation every coffee shop and there are scores of them in seville Is a noisy stamping ground human ity choked from early in the a afternoon until long 1019 after midnight indeed one may pass at any time during tile the day or nig milt and see gesticulating knots of men crowded about cup fluttered cluttered tables talking talking |