Messico, il paese delle meraviglie del sud. Eir vecchio palazzo è anche partito. Bypaying venticinque centavos uno può entrare nel oldgarden che adunes la casa lunga e rampling, con i tribunali e patii istigati. Qui ci sono alberi e fiori di thetropics, pendii terrazzati, lakelets, cascate e fondali che in tutti si dice abbiano costo un milione di dollari. Thewole luogo è in uno stato di decadenza, ma c'è bellezza evenin la sua rovina. Le mura e i palisades stuccati sono una tinta rosa tenue, striata con muschio verde; la pavimentazione in pietra e le scalinate sono anche ammorbidite a mano del tempo; le fontane e statuarie

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Mexico, the wonderland of the South . eir old mansion has also departed. Bypaying twenty-five centavos any one may enter the oldgarden which adjoins the long, rambling house, with itstiled courts and patios. Here are trees and flowers of thetropics, terraced slopes, lakelets, cascades and fountainswhich in all are said to have cost a million dollars. Thewhole place is in a state of decay, but there is beauty evenin its ruin. The stuccoed walls and palisades are a softpink tint, streaked with green moss; the stone paving andsteps are also softened by the hand of time; the statuaryand fountains all show the same signs of neglected age.On the little lake, bordered with mango trees, which wereloaded with fruit when I visited the place, was a thrivingcolony of swans and ducks, but otherwise there was novestige of life in the old pleasure-ground. At two corners ofthe walls are quaint stone arbors from which there are mag-nificent views of the valley and the rugged mountains.One of these nooks overlooks the Indian village of San. A MEXICAN PARADISE 227 Antone, with its crumbling stone church, very much Hkeone of the ancient wayside churches of southern Italy. I spent many a restful hour in the old Borda Garden, and derived a good deal of amusement from the walls of theshady arbors, which bore hundreds of inscriptions by en-thusiastic visitors, chiefly American tourists from suchromantic places as ^^Union City, Neb., ^^Grimesville, 0., and Tin Can, Wash. But such comments as Hey, fellows, Cuernavacas all right, and dont you forgetit, or Say, why cant we annex Cuernavaca to GrandRapids? however well-meaning, scarcely harmonize withthe antique. Some of the Mexican young men and maidenswho had visited the place had evidently been aroused to astate of sentimental frenzy, and there were numerous Span-ish verses pencilled on the stucco — lovesick outburstssuch as, Ah! mi adorada! (Oh, my adored one), etc. I shared the gardens solitude with myriads of bright-eyed lizards, browns an

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