1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



501 



Fig". 7 grives us a g'limpse of a couple of 

 younjj ladies, or "senoritas," as they are 

 called in Spanish. The^' are neighbors of 

 Mr. Moe, and Mrs. Moe invited them over 

 to give )Our 

 humble servant 

 a little recep- 

 tion. Of course, 

 we could not 

 talk ver_v much 

 together, but 

 the girls were 

 kind enough to 

 give me some 

 Spanish songs. 

 I told one of 

 Mr. Moe's hired 

 men, the one 

 who has the ko- 

 dak, that I 

 would give a 

 five dollar bill 

 for a picture of 

 the younger one 

 if he could get 

 her while she 

 was laughing 

 and carrying 

 on as she did 

 there at Mr. 



Moe's that evening. And I would give 

 another five-dollar bill to have the readers 

 of Gle.^nings hear the rattle of the tongues 

 of these Spanish senoritas. And, bj- the 

 wa3-, some of the " senoras " (women) could 

 keep up with them pretty well, I think. 

 We have all heard about American women 

 who could use their tongues, especiall}' 



v^hen they were at a sewing society', or 

 something of that sort. But my impression 

 is that these Spanish women would get in 

 more words in five minutes than any Amer- 



FIG. 8. — RENDERtNt, ^^ \ v \W..i IHK SOLAK 

 KX IKAC I OK. 



FIG. 5. — OUK PASO REAL APIARY. 



lean woman I ever came across could in 

 fifteen. And then I began to wonder if even 

 they could really comprehend or catch on to 

 such rapid talk. But judging from the 

 rattling rejoinder, I was forced to believe 

 the}' did. The girls in question could talk 

 Spanish to the bovs and the rest of the fam- 

 ily even if they could not to me. If I am 

 correct, the two girls work for a living, 

 and are carrying on a sort of milliner}- 

 store. Mr. Moe laughingly said if I gave 

 their picture in Gleanings he would be 

 able to get plenty of help in his apiary 

 from young men from the States; and he 

 thought that may be they would be willing 

 to work for reasonable wages, "in consid- 

 eration," etc. 



Fig. 8 is a picture of your humble ser- 

 vant while he is interested in rendering 

 wax with the solar extractor. I was not 

 posing for a picture: but if if remember 

 correctly Stephen snapped his kodak on 

 me without mv knowledge or consent. If 

 Mrs. Root had been consulted in regard to 

 the matter she would have insisted that I 

 go to the barber s and have a little slicking- 

 up done before posing before our readers 

 in this manner. 



Fig. 9 gives a view of the royal palms, 

 and one that shows the swell in the trunk 

 in a remarkable degree. Notice what a 

 slender sten omes out of the ground, and 

 how it swells o^it like a mammoth seed- 

 stalk onion. The bunches of berries that 

 they feed to (he pigs is seen right up under 

 the foliage where the leaves branch out. 



I have before stated that these swollen 

 bodies are often used on a sort of drag for 

 drawing water from the springs and 

 streams. 



