Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-06-02
THE cAD1z LADIES.

IVbo. n ol,..,,,- 10 .reru CndiZ,-~what
sudden change, toO,--IrOm the bOOrkO (the
female vciD of the Arab, and the tob and ha-
bnrah Of the Egyptian, that cover them all up,
the one eye except, to the open faced, uncover
ing of the Cadiz Anialusian manta Think
OF me now; think Of what peril must be in,
of inc who have not seen the face OF native
woman since | left Athens in Greece,
seeing, fresh from Egypt and all Of sudden.
tine AndaluSian in ali her airs and graCcS, with
her pretty, but full, twinking foot, (no trailing
dress to hide it) and her bright, black, flashing
eyes all Open and sparkling with the electricity
OF the soul within. No possible change to
woman craft could be greater than this weeks
change from Egypt to Cadiz! The woman OF
the East is Il myth, an invisible locomotive, an
automaton, with no hair, no ears, chin, no
month"; no checks, teeth, 10 lips, no tongue,
10 eyes, nu-anvthng:-but the CadiZ woman
is a living, thinking reality. She walks the
streets of CadiZ as NIrgirS gOdeSScs were walked
by the AIantnan bard Her plump, short,
pretty foot really wrinkles, as, in dark satin
shoes and lace stockings it glides over the
Garth. No veil covers her eyes, head or hair,
i'll front at least,-no veil, unless it he the
shadow of her black redundant hair that
seems TO grow to the head so nicely
cOiFnrcd is it that even the winds toss it
not, while the zeHhyrS nestle in IL Her
hand, too, is as perfect as her feet and head, =
and throughout she is, as the French phrases
have it Gie3. guntc, bien ch1lLSse, bicA hnGie sons
Tins les qrpport*.. Then her lace veil, or man
tilla, thrown over her shoulders, or pinned 10
the back Of her head, the air, the manner, the
grace, the whole tOuTnure, makes her, in my
eye, the best dressed, the finest show off womnn
that | have ever, in any country, seen in the
street Paris the head quarters of fashion aud
elegance, certainly Turns out such bellies
Now add to all this fan, ever in motion, and
that does duty mere inanimatc matter | sup
posed could never be made to ,lu-a fan that
acts tire bonnet, the parasOl, and the veil beside
"A fan that tccgraphs, and signaizes, that
chatterS, and even ilirts-a fan that talks too
and that means more than tongue, think, say
of what peril man is in fresh from Egypt
and MOSlem land, who has not befor been per
united 10 see a live woman for months. The
streets of EadiZ. when the sun is declining be-
gin to be full of such gOdcsseS, on f0ot,-for
carriages rarity in CadiH, and the whole
fashionable worl1 is on her nice, clean streets,
her squares, and Alameda, public walk
There the CadiZ lady after hours perhaps,
spent upon her head and hair, goes to be admir-
ed rs we'll as to be seen,-hours say, for the
toilette here is toll, task indeed. That reduu-
dant head of hair that the winds disturb not that
not even the gale perhaps could shake in a sin.
gle lock, is not all of nature, always, or if all
natural, is not thus by nature unmOvedly fixed
If the mysteries of the Cadiz toilette had not
been developed to mc by lady tongue, / could
guess it, nay read it, in the couture shubs all
about. Those long treSSes there III the window
what are they for? For sales of course Those
puttS, puts, putlS, what mean thcy?-(Or they
nrc not things of air Those briads, those ring
lets, those preparations of German wool All,
now ] read in the very windows of the CadiZ
shops, what mean heads Of hair so abundant,
redundant. never before saw on heads of
women the like But what thuSkeepS "headS"
lms composed so perfect in their place, despite
lie air, The rude, rongh winds even That disturb