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here is superb and so is the House of Pilate, but the Alcazar is to me very disappointing, and "the court of the oranges" of which I have heard so much is not one half as interesting as hundreds of Ulster County apple orchards -- of course the walls of the cathedral surrounding it are fine, but the court itself is a disgrace to the authorities who have charge of it. The Giralda from which Stamford White got his inspiration for the Madison Square Tower, is charming, but according to my ideas of effect White beat his famous model by fully fifty per cent. The inner courts of the better class houses of Seville are the most interesting sights of the town, excepting of course the famous buildings above named. The city park is rather good but not fine. The inmates of the great National Tobacco plant: "cigarette girls of Seville", are as a collection the most hideously ugly specimens of womankind I have ever seen. And all of this is absolutely true notwithstanding the volumes of poetry and prose that still exist in praise of their beauty. The building in which they work is a beautiful old convent of enormous size, surrounded by what was once a lovely garden and all enclosed within a huge and handsome wall. The building and wall should be restored, the garden replanted, the whole business turned into a temporary hospital, and every one of its present occupants committed to the hospital for the balance of their miserable lives. I pity the poor devils! They stand as fine living specimens of the fate of the un-intelligent hard workers of the world when controlled by labor leaders. It is a "union shop" with exclamation points. So stringent and effective that not one apprentice has been admitted in many years, and the workers (all females) allow that not a single new hand, young or old, shall be employed so long as the present crowd can hold together. It's the toughest proposition I have ever met, and I will give you fuller details verbally some time in the future. Let me add here, that the idea of the union workers is that so long as they live they shall be kept employed in their present positions, after their death the business itself shall die for want of skilled employes. The Government runs the business!!!

Since our arrival in Andalusia I have watched faithfully for even a single example of the far-famed Andalusians, but as yet, only one good looking girl has shown up and she is surely a yankee.

The southern Spaniards are certainly not handsome. And as for costumes, not a single fine one has as yet been seen outside of gipsy camps or the treasure vaults of the cathedrals. But my special quest has already been bountifully found. The Fine Arts of early moorish and spanish creation. We have