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white starched head-dress, and a white apron over a long 

 full dress made of some heavy cr earn- colored goods* She 

 invited the visitors in to see the house, where four 

 Sisters take care of sib: feeble-minded girls of wealthy 

 families. First, with great pride, came the hall closet 

 with a real telephone on the shelf. KFexfc , the Sisters' 

 rooms, each urith two white beds, a chair, a washstand, a 

 large crucifix lying on the bed; there were big pots of 

 flowers on the sills outside the windows . The girls' 

 rooms had dark beds, many small figures on the tables, a 

 shelf of objects in each room and there was a large rag 

 doll. The visitors were then taken to the long salon 

 with tables, chairs and vases of flowers; opening into 

 the salon was an archway chapel and a small room furnished 

 with a shrine and benches. "Little girl" took off the 

 jacket of her dress, folded it over her head like a hood, 

 and knelt at the shrine. 



The garden was in two sections, separated by a small 

 interior wall. Near the house was the flower garden, 

 with many beautiful flowers. Some of these were picked 

 and bestowed in rounds of three - forget-me-not, carna- 

 tions, poppies, verbena, red verbena and niyrtle (with 

 berries like small pale cherries). The vegetable garden 

 was large and contained several small fig trees, some 

 medium-sized peach trees with clusters of small green 

 peaches, M la primera cosecha! 1 * There were also many 

 plum trees, some small apple trees and a tiny pear tree 

 with one blossom. 



From the General's house, they went on to the village 

 of Chla, past the church and the central market square 

 where pottery is sold on Sundays and Thursdays. As they 

 came to the railroad crossing the gates were down and. a 

 train was stopping, with third class and first class 

 coaches; women and boys were waiting to run along under 

 the windows with round baskets of fruit and bijscocherla. 

 They bought tiny paper bags of mogollitos (small crisr> 

 short cracker-rolls) and obleas (thin, white, and soft, 

 with slightly sweetened flavor in middle) » 



On the return trip they were stopped at the Bogotd 

 reten, while Luis, the chauffeur, climbed to the high 

 lighted porch of the station, talked long, went in, 

 stayed long, came out and down to the car with two of- 

 ficers who inspected papers and then offered for pro- 

 tection an eight -day permit for the car; there must be 

 no more delay in getting Bogota plates ! 



Meanwhile, I had gone from the Institute with l/urillo 

 to a meeting of the Academia Colombiana where I heard my- 

 self elected to Corresponding Membership . The meeting 

 was longer than I had anticipated and at 7.5>0 I was ex- 

 cused to go to dinner in Teusaquillo at 7.30. i/urillo 



