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Show 200 BY PATH AND TKAIL. eye. TBe Moors, who held possession of nearly one- half of Spain for almost 800 years, grafted on the Iberian race many of their own customs, manners and Oriental dress. The Spanish women inherited from them the " Bebozo," the " Tapole" and concealment of the face, and the Mexican senoritas adopted the dress of their Spanish sisters. I found the men leaning, as of old, against the door jambs and walls of the mescal shopst smoking their soothing cigarettes, made by rolling a pinch of tobacco in a piece of corn- husk, and apparently supremely happy. But I missed the picturesque " zarape" and the many colored blanket of cotton or wool, and the sweeping sombrero, wide as a phaeton wheel, and banded with snakes of silver bullion. Through the ancient street of the old pueblo the main street of the town there passed and repassed a motley aggrega tion of quaint people, Papago Indians, ' ' greasers, ' ' half-castes, Mexicans and American ranchers, herders and cow- punchers. You must be careful here, for it is yet early in the forenoon, and the street is filled with horses, mules and burros loaded with wood or garden truck for the market and dealers, and with tawny- complexioned men and women carrying huge loads on their heads and followed by bare- footed children and half- starved and wild looking mongrels, first cousins to the sneaking coy otes of the Sierras. The sure sign of racial absorption comes when a peo ple begin to adopt the diet and cooking of the foreign ele ment with whom they must live and with whom they must associate, at least commercially. To test how far this process of assimilation and incorporation had already advanced among the Mexicans, I dined to- day at one of their restaurants. Fortunately or alas ! it was the same |