The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-21
DAUGHTERS OF THE .AZI'ECS.
Rare Types Of Loveiness-The Pure De
scendants of the Castiian Conqlerors.

From the san Francisco Chronicle.
The commonly received opinion
that all Mexican women are of the
deep brunette type, with correspond
ing superb black eyes, enchantingly
mysterious in their chances, is a fall
lacy which arises from ignorance.
There are now visiting in this city
three families from Mexico. the ladies
of which are blondes of the most per
feet ideal, and who in their own coun-
try are classed 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 of Iure Spanish
descent, their ancestors having come
from the mountainous regions in the
north of Spain. where the people are
fair rs are the Danes. though differ
! ing in the tinge of complexion. All
the social upheaVal in Mexico for the
past six years has failed to mingle the
blood of the Indians with the blue
blood of certain element of their
cOnquerors and descendants of the
conquerors. This is the guerra ele-
ment, which has held it's own invio-
late amid the Surging passions
surrounding it. amid temptations
which nothing but a naughty pride of
race would or could have resisted.
Intermarriage among the Spanish ele-
ment III Mexico is us strict and ex-
elusive rs it is among the Hebrew
people. Pride has built an impregna-
nable wall. against which passion.
lust and love have in vain dashed
themselves.
1t is woman and not man who has
preserved the distinctive type Of race
called the gueras. She alone has been
true to herself, and she alone has kept
the man within these bounds that
have even preserved him from en-
tirely falling into the chaos of blood
mixture.
Whenever the woman element of
the Spanish race was wanting there
the Spaniard willingly succumbed to
the crude charms and fervid fascina-
tons of Indian maidens. The pure
current and the mixed current of
blood. SO visible in Mexico. typiies
the fidelity of woman to higher
moral principle than man. Were 1t
not for heroic devotion to this princl
BILE, Mexico, rs represented by the
Spaniard. would have been SO thor
oughly Indianized that a pure de-
scendant of the Spaniards would not
have been found from the Rio Grande
to Yucatau, from the Gulf to the
Pacific. Through the love snd devo-
tion OF the Spanish women. vino left
their native country and settled III
the land of the -Aztecs. to an exalted
ideal of the marital relation. is due
the existence OF such a portion OF the
population rs the guer.ts.
All through Mexico You end them
in the hearts of settlements thichly
populated by Indians and mixed races.
forming colonies in themselves. mar
rying and intermarrylng year after
year. and rearing families who hold
to the social customs and traditions
of their parents. There are two types
of sueras. The type mentioned has
some very distinct characteristics.
The face Is spirituelle. and has that
subdued expression which invariably
results from religious meditation, and
in color is white as alabaSter. Tie
flesh is faultlessly white. tingea with
refined but healthy pallidness. The
g
trous, and the hair abundant and
black as the raven wing. The teeth
are perfect and white as su0wiiakes.
The "rubias, the second type. are
superb specimens of womanhood. AID
are so called because they have
auburn or golden hair. which ii some
! instances runs into flaming rich rel
color. The eyes are often deep blue,
and soft and entreating in their ex-
preston. The flesh has a sunset
tinre ID j. which indicates more
warm and sensuous nature than that
of the paler-hued women. Near the
town CT Aqua Caliente. State OF
Sinalaa. there is a village of rubias.
| the young women OF which are match
less in their style Of beauty. Tall and
/ graceful, with richly rounded busts
and symmetrical forms, and step as
! 1.-THE and elastic as a fawn's, they
move about. the very symbols of the
| poetry of motion. They have some
thing in their manner and style SINH
lar to the higher classes of Russian
women, ana whom they greatly re-
ssemble. The rubias, like the gueras.