The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-09-17
DAUGHTERS OF THB AzFECs
Rare Types Of Loveliness-Pure
Descendants OF the Castiliau
Conquerors-


San Frsnciss,o Chronicle.
The commonly received opinion
that all Mexican women are Of the
deep brunette type. with correspond
ing superb black eyes, euchaniingly
mysterious in their glances, Is faIlacy
which arises from ignorance. There
are now visiting in this city three
families from Mexico. the ladies Of
which are blondes Of the most perfec,
ideal, and who in their Ovn county
are classe,l under the title Of Las
Gueras. a term generally applied to
all light and fair complexioned people.
whether natives or Foreigners. The
Mexican gueras are ut pure Spanish
descent, their ancestors having come
trum the mountainous regions in the
north of Spain, where the people are
fair a. the Danes. though differing in
the tinge of complexion. All the
social upheaval in Mexico fr the past
sixty years has failed to Iningle the
blood Of the Indians with the blue
blood Of certain element Of their
conquerors and descendants Of the
conquerors. This is the guerra element
which has held its own inviolate amid
the Singing passions surrounding it.
amid temptations which lOthing but
a naughty pride Of race would or
could have resisted. Intermarriage
aui.ss,v ,,,is s>pa!II<n eiemeiit IN IlexicU
is rs strict and exclusive ~. it Is among
the Hebrew people. Prid. has bnili
m impregnab:e wall. against which,
passion. lust and 1--we have in vai,
dashed themselves.
1t i woman and not man who ha.
preserved the distinctive type Of race
called the gucras. She alone has been
true to herself. and she al,ne has kept
the man within those hounds that
have even preserved him from entirely
falling into the chaos Of blrsd mix.
ture.
Whenever the woman element Of
the Spanish race was wanting there
the Spaniard willingly succumbed to
the crude charms and fervid f,scina
lions OF Indian msidens. The pure
current and the mixed current Of blood
80 visible in MexicD, typi6es the
fidelity of woman Ia q higher moral
principle than man. We're it mt for
heroic devotion to this principle. Mex
ico. as represented by the Spaniard,
wouli have been 80 thoroughly Indian.
lied that a pure descendant If the
Spaniards would not bav. been found
from the Rio Grande tn Yucatan, from,
the Gulf tn the Pacific. Through the
love and devotion Of the Spanish 40.
men. xho left their native country and
settled in the land Of the .Aztccs. tn
an exalted idea. of the marital rela
ton, is due the existence If such q
portion Of the population ~ the
gueras.
All through Mexico you ti9d them
in the heart of settlements thickly
populated by Indians aud mixed races.
forming colonies in themselves. marry.
ing and intermarrying wear after year,
and rearing families who hold to the
social customs aud traditions Of their
parents. There are two types IF
gueras. The type men,ione:l has some
very distinct characteristics. The
face is spirituele. and has that sub
dued oppression which Invariably re-
suits from religious me,iit alton. and in
color Is white as alabsster. The Aesh
Is faultlessly white. tinged with
refined but healthy pallIlness. The
eyes are usually dark. large and lus-
tr us. and the hair abundant aid
back as the ravens wing. The teeth
a . perfect and white AZ snowfxkes.
The ''rubias" the second type, are
superb specimens of womanhood, and
are 70 called because they have auburn
or golden hair. which in some in.
stances runs into flaming rich red
color. The eyes are often deep blue.
and soft and entreating in their ex-
preston. The flesh has q sunset tinge
to It which indicates a more warm and
sensuous nature than that Of the paler..
hued women. Near the town Of Agur
Caliente. State Of Sinaloa. there . . |
village Of rubias. she yousg women Of
which are matches in lheir STYLE of
beauty. Tall and graceful. with rich
" rounded busts and symmetrieal
forms. end with . step ~ 1.-THE and |
elastic ~ tAwas. they move about,
The very symbols Of the poetry Of |
motion. They have, sonethine in |
their manner and style similar to the
higher classes Of Russian women. and |
whom they greatly resemble. The
rubias, like the gueras, live mostly in !
the interior. where the climate i more |
mild and genial. While the dark races
ishsGt4 the, hot sregioss, along, the |
ceeoe. SIS ags nD arr ,iA7oJ> a.
I'm La Pa1 Nssatlsp, Acapulco andl
other coast towns, however, these arej