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The odor is [[red underline]] combined [[/red underline]] with that of [[red underline]] the many perfumery stores and produces a peculiar rather irritating smell. [[/red underline]]
In the parks there are some big [[red underline]] Eucalyptus [[/red underline]] trees also some venerable pines or arbor - [[strikethrough]] w [[/strikethrough]] vitae trees
Women conductors on trains are homely and [[red underline]] very businesslike [[/red underline]] and no trace of a smile, they are grim and [[red underline]] determined and  waste no time on politeness. Train service is excellent [[/red underline]] and cheap. 10 centavos & 5 centavos. 
At the [[red underline]] Plaza de Armas [[/red underlined]] there is concert at night by military band. People walking around just [[red underline]] as in Ghent. The girls walking one way, the men the other. Some youngsters standing in a row to look [[/red underline]] at the closely passing succession
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of girls. [[red underline]] Everything well behaved. [[/red underline]] No rowdiness. no undue noise. [[red underline]] Better than in Ghent or Brussels or New York specially no rough boys. The music [[/red underline]] however is [[red underline]] mediocre [[/red underline]] They serve a melon here which is about the form and size of our [[red underline]] watermelon [[red underline]] but which is [[strikethrough]] re [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] white [[/red underline]] instead of red and is much better. Long sections are cut out. just as we do with watermelons, then with a long knife the edge is sliced off then cut lengthwise then in cross wise sections. each section shaved out to make it easier to lift with a fork
[[5 drawings of how the melon is cut. The first 2, labelled 1 and 2, show the melon from the side; the last 3, labeled 2, 3 and 4, show the melon from the top and how the pieces are cut out]]