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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC .MAGAZINE 



FROM ONE CENTURY TO ANOTHER 



The young lady of the picture is wearing a silken mantilla that was handed down to her 

 by her grandmother's grandmother, who brought it from old Spain. She is standing on a 

 brick-floored balcony over one of the cool, verdure-filled patios common to all the better-class 

 houses in Mexico, the style of which was devised by Moorish architects long before Columbus 

 crossed the sea. 



