The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-23

won, and once conciliated are extremely
obliging. Etiquette is very rigid with them,
and never departed from In public. When
you visit any one formally the proper CO.'S
tune is black, as it is with us. If the person
you have called on be out, you write ON the
corner Of your card e. p. Zen personal and
leave it with the servant. First visits
demand marked courtesy, which means
nothing unless it is repeated at the
second visit. If you are wecome you will
be conducted to the best room, placed on the
right hand Of the sofa, and your hat treated
with as much consideration as yourself, your
host.seIzing it ardently and placing it on
vacant chair AS you take leave of lady
you say, II hurl myself at your feet, Madam
"a los pies de Usted, Sen0rd); and she re-
spends, with an eloquent casting down of the
eeyelids and graceful sweep of her fan, 81
KISS your hand, Sir" BeS0 a usted la naG1oo,
Senor), for the reason, perhaps, that neither
you nor she intend to do anything of the
kind. Then che looks tender, and uses the
phrase, "May you depart with God, and con-
time well" Vdg0 uSted con Dt0s que usted 10
pdse bteraC Whereupon you assume theolo-
gically gallant air--to be acquired only in
Spain-and reply, "May you remain with
God" (Quede uSted con DiosC
The name of the Deity occupies very
prominent place in Peninsular phraseology,
o1o 10 OupiOy6u unuoI a NdTl6by Oh
stances. Your dearest friend intrusts you
to the Divine keeping as he folds you in his
embrace; and the robber does the same
when he points his blunderbuss at your head,
and gently requests you to stand and deliver
Men are treated very differently from
women by Spanish ladies. These seldom rise
on receiving the former, or offer their hand,
or accept the arm of their escort; but they kiss
the latter at coming and going. The striking
contrast is thought to arise from inherent
feminine rcoquettishness, the dark-eyed
Castilians desiring to show men what delights
they are debarred from by reason of their sex.
One OF the reasons assigned by the women for
not giving their hand to their masculine
friends is, that the doing so disarranges their
mantilla; and another, that it is likely to be
mistaken for O matrimonial intention. The
Spanish men, who are always saying ill-na-
tured and cynical things about the other sex
declare the mantilla is much more serious
matter than marriage; that an ill-fttine gar
ment is more difficult to manage than poor
husband.
Unless a Spaniard presses you again and
again to repeat your visit, and assures you
his house is yours, and it and all it contains
at your disposal, you can conclude you are
not welcome, that you have not created a
favorable impression. Birthdays are made
much of, and when they occur formal visits
are expected. New Years is devoted to calls,
as on this side of the sea- and presents, re-
markable for their fitness rather than value,
are often made to those on whom you call.
MIR. William ]. Flagg, under the title of
swine in America and American Wine," dis
courses as follows about grape culture in
America
The discoverers of the continent, wherever
if Il. @1oaa ook e.. I,
explored the interior, found the grape grow
ing Gigantic vines clambered over cliffs
of granite and lodges of limestone, bore down
with their weight great trees of the primitive
forest, festooned with beauty the borders of
rivers and creeks, and, before European
herds came to browse them away, ramped
down to the very shores of the sea. A cargo
of voyagers approaching the coast of North
Carolina, while as yet more than a hundred
miles off, were met, as they told, with per-
fume Of welcome SO sweet and strong it en-
veloped and pervaded their ship as if she were
sailing among gardens. 1t was the breath
of vine blossoms, borne on western breezes
from that land of the grape. AS long as
the home of the vine, whose generations pro-
duced and reproduced themselves within its
shelter, waiting for a man to come. Three
families there were, known to botany as VItis
Ia6ruSca, VStSS 9stasilis, and Vitis Vulptna,
otherwise named after the fox, the frost, and
the bull. They were mostly hard, thick
skinned, and sour, for their energies were
expended in reproduction, to the end that
their species might be preserved through the
many dangers that beset their wild condition.
Yet from time to time they would fling off
luscious varieties; seedlings of chance, though
fulfilling design; fit for the use of man; yet
of no hon1
fine and delicate, and perishing without it.
And thus those wild originals of the vine
will continue to do while the forest stands;
for the rude changes of our climate destroy
the tender plants brought from Europe, and
a hardy stock is needed that is native to the
soil. Seedlings of chance and foundlings of
the woods are our Herbemont, Lenoir, and
Norton's Virginia, members of the frost
family; the Catawba, Concord, and Delaware,
with many more, members of the fox family;
and the Scuppernong and others, of the bull.
These we know and have, and others we look
and hope for. How many as good or better
than they have perished in their bleak nur-
sery for want of adoption none can guess.
But we have vines enough, and they are
good enough to grow wine to satisfy the
hemisphere, even though another variety
should never be discovered. All needed is
that we know how to place and how to cult
vate and preserve them; and richly Furnished
as is the board of our. national feast, thu
drink that shall fill it's now empty crystal
will be worthy of it. The same condition
which produce good apples and peaches Cal
produce good grapes. Diversity of soil ant
climate will give diversity of products warn
sunbeams, clear skies, and dry atmospher
will insure sweetness and flavor in the fruit
and richness, body, and bouquet in the wine
In most of our varieties there is an excess o
flavor to be tempered down by cultivation
Many of them are superabundant in sugar