Country Life In The Argentine

In a new country the traveler must not be particular, mach less exmrfjng ; above all he most not expeet to find reflnement among the inhabitants, whose whole efforts barely snfflce to sustein the combat against the elements. Stil) I cannot refrain from noting the iinpression of sadness and disgust produced by the sight of the towns and colonies of the pampa, and by a gliiupse of the life that the inhabitants lead. Verily the majority live worse than brutes, f or they have not even the cleanly instincts of the beasts of the field. Their houses are less agreeable to the eye than the Esquimau's hut. The way they maltreat their animáis is sickening to behold. Rarely do you see the face of a man, woman or child that does not wear a ferocious expression. In the villages there are no clubs, no li%raries, no churches, no priests, rarely even a school. The men and women work, eat and sleep. Dttrmg my whole stay in the Argentino and in all the centers that I visited I was struck by the utter absence of moral restraint, and by the hard materiality of the faces oí the people from the highest down to the eet