SUNDAY, PtlRUARY 19, 1908.
THB IfORKIKO ASTOIUAK, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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Christmas in Mexico la not the typ
ical Christina of cold and snow tod
Ice, bat on of bright warm sunshine.
cloudless bin skies, flower In profu
sion, tress la fail foil and a lift of
oat of door. " " .7
At leut week before Christmas In
the principal streets of Mexico arches
are erected from sidewalk to sidewalk.
festooned with wreaths of flowers and
bunting in the national colors red.
white and green. Under the arches
booths arc erected, and every toy man
ufactnred In Mexico is on sale.
In every Mexican house great ormv
aratlou are made for what Is called
the "pinata." Every child begs and
scrapes and saves the centavo for
weeks and month ahead. All kind of
article are made especially for this
ceremony, ana every ramiiy vie witn
Its friends and neighbors to have its
pinata more beautiful and fanciful than
any one eise. ' : :!!' y j n 4
The olnata la reallr an earthenware
niensu wnicn is in general use ror cook
ing. It Is called In common parlance
an olla and 1 of brown pottery some
thing like the old fBHhloned ' earthen-
war crocks used In the north before
enamel ware became the fad.
The olnota are lareo or small, a the
arse or tne Durcnaser nermlta. Tner
are round, pot bellied and very large It
the too. They are sold from door to
aoor on tne streets and in the market.
They cost only 10, 13 or 20 centavos,
but the olla 1 the least expensive part
of th game. '.
The body of the olla for a woman la
covered with tissue paper; then a crin
kled paper dree 1 fashioned: then a
bodice 1 built op draped to represent
a loose wmte waist, and above till is
Disced a false face. The hair la mada
with black paper, braided into one long
pian at tne dick, a the women wear
their hair in Mexico. Sometime a
white tehuSna headdresa Is made of the
lace paper used by bakers and confec
tioners, j j i i , i . i
A flower pinata Is decorated with'
large paper flowers In every color of
the tslnbow. lied, while and green rib
bons, forming long streamers, and sil
ver and sold tinsel, alasa balls and col
ored lights all help to make the flower
pinata very beautiful. The possibilities
for dressing these pinatas are endless.
In a large family the mother and
daughters have their own pinata. and
great secrecy is maintained in the dec
qratlon of the olla. It Is the aim of
each to devise as original a dressing
for the pinata as possible, and it can
be made a very extravagant ornament
in tbo families of wealthy Mexicans
the luxury of the pinata often mount
Into thousands.
A f ter the olla is decorated to the taste
It is filled. The Ailing consists of pea
nuts, hazel nuts, bard candles, like
marbles, and all kinds of Mexican
dulces. These dulces are candled fruits,
nut paste, etc.
Christmas night the pinatas are car
rled In great state into the sala and
suspended from the celling one at a
time. All the relative of the family
are present, and a cousins of the fifth
and sixth degree are recognised and
children art very numerous there 1
generally a large garnering, xney all
sit very demurely on chairs ranged In
a row around tne waua or tne room.
One person Is constituted master of
ceremonies, tne eldest son or daughter
of the bouse. He or she stands In the
middle of the room. Near by 1 a jar
or umbrella stand filled with aplsaco
canes or sticks. When everything is
ready a child or grown person is se
lected ana caned by name, cue come
forward and Is blindfolded.
Then the fuu begins. The person
blindfolded is turned round and round
until she loses all knowledge of where
the pinata bangs. A cane Is put lu her
hands, and alio la told to hit the nlnata
and try to break It She is given three
cuances. ir sne ratia to bit It sue sits
down amid laughter and ridicule. If
she hits it without breaking it she is
entitled to a small prize. "
And so it goes ou, one after another
being called up, blindfolded and given a
cane and three chances to break the
pinata. liunlly one more fortunate
than the rest succeeds In giving a hard
enougn blow, and, crash, the pinata
falls to the crounda in hundreds of bits.
and its content are scattered far and
wide.
A wild scramblo ensues. Everrtiodv
rushes forward to gather as much of
me apuiea contents as possible. ...
The fortunate breaker of the Dinnta
gets a handsome prise and Is awarded
tne seat of lionor. He or she sits down
and 1 debarred from another trial at
breaking another pluuta. M soon as
the confusion dies down and order la
somewhat restored another olla Is hung
up and the same routine gone through.
So the fun continues until the last pla:
ta la brokeu, aud then the prizes nre
awarded. V i, ,. j ' C V
The pinata party Is the creat' social
and fun making feature of the Christ
mas season. After the pinatas have
been brokeu and a supper has been
served there follows dancing, or a trav
eling company of .Indians from the
mountains is brought in to ahig and
dance In native costume.
These traveling Indians are some
what ilk the singing bands which go
around at Christmas time from house
to house In England, Germany, France
and Italy. They hare been known and
BgEuto In Mexico from time lmmemo-
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' CIRCU3 PERFORMERS.
I Tbeas he Clreaa Is Vary
. rtoaa Atmtr, , ,
To clrcu peopl th circus is a very
lenou ining. WUa a bareback rider
slip to th ground after a somersault
9r a lofty tumbler mlea th shoulder
it i ni business to land on th audi
ence 1 all sympathy, as If feeling It
self Aow It I to fall before so many
eople, Very Utile the performer care
for all the vast multitude. Ill mind
1 on the superintendent; bis particular
superintendent, who I Watching him
at the side of the arena, and who. when
be goe off, la sore to ask very pointed
ly now nia eye happened to be Inac
curate or hi muscle lflflrm. There la
no place la the clrcu for performer
wno rail.
Even the downs look a little bit seri
ous behind the scene. But perhaps
tnat IS only because the black Unaa
they paint on their whitened visages
are always so elum and solemn. And
what a wilderness of fun making peo
ple mere are in the L ter day circus
the Bumnklu. the Loon, the Uarleonln.
the Grimacer, the Merry Andrew, the
Auainau ixwoy, um zany, the Pierrot,
the Punch, the Motley Fool and finally
the German Broad Face, whose name
is raddy Burke! One of the clowns
was sitting on his trunk In the dress
ing room licking- a stick of black naint
and rubbing it on bis cheeks so as to
make a most funereal expression. The
small boy asked him what kind of a
clown he was. He said that he was
Just "Funny FrigkJy," and he got his
visiting card, out of bl trunk. It read,
"II. Friskey. Clown and Comedian,'
and it bad a heavy gold rim. which
mad it very Imposing. In th four
corner It said Europe and Asia and
Africa and America, which showed
that 1L Friskey's fame had reached
in tour corner of tne card. Until you
saw bl merry caper In the ring you
never could believe that a man with
such a serious face and such an Im
posing visiting card could be either
funny or frisky.-MetroDoIItan Mara-
sine.
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of maiming it for life. A blow In cold
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wbo came Into the library and Baked
one of the assistants for a "good law
book." He explained that one of bis
neighbor Intended to ace him and ha
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out tne law.
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ror an Dour. Tben be came to the desk
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