Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-06
THE WOMEN IN MEXICO,
Ihev Take Things Easy, and K,aoau Moth
ing of Waanan's Rights.


Ihev Take Things Easy, and K,aoau Moth
ing of Vaanan's Rights.
Woman's Journal. ,-,-
If we are to believe that ssthe first requisite
of man is to be a good animal,' our Mexi-
can sisters are vastly our superiors. Instead
of perfect health being the exception, as !
fear is too often the case with us, feelings and
ailings are rare. The women, as rule, live
to hale and hearty old age, without even
having heard of the thousand and one all
ments that afliot their sex elsewhere. The
young are vigorous, and bear an
| almost unlimited number of chill
dren without decrease of strength. This
physical superiority does not seem traceable
to any one cause. Perhaps it is the "sur-
| vival of the fttest.'' Children are cared for
| in what would seem to us a most reckless
m amer. I have seen new born babies, for
example, in biting cold weather wrapped in a
small cotton sheet, without other garments
than cambria shirt, and this the universal
custom in the best regulated households.
There are~no statistics at hand to support
the assertion, but judge the average num-
of births in q family to be from ten to
twelve. A large percentage of these never
reach maturity. and it is allowable to pre-
sumo that those who have the most power
OF endurance survive.
On the other hand, corsets are but little
known, and the old fashion of high heeled
shoes has never reached here There are
no reform waists to supply the place to the
corset, but the skirts are usually made light
and worn with sacques, SO that the outrages
of the human form are less glaring than in
more civilized (?) communities. Steels and
whalebone and tight wasted dresses are for
gala days only, and then for the privileged
few. The home garments are invariably
loose and comfortable. This, though not
the perfection of dress reform, is an i'm
provement on the dress of the average
American woman.
Again, these women are not overworked,
They perform their work in slow, easy
going manner, whether in the kitchen or
bedroom or in the parlor, at their sewing or
fancy work. Unlike US, who have no mod
Grafton in the use of a characteristic valua-
BILE in itself, but the abuse of what is sap
ping our very life as a people, they do not
exhaust their nervous forces in hurryinp
with tine. If to- day is not sufficiently long,
manana, tomorrow stretches ont invitingly
before them in delightful indefniteness.
Time is absolutely no object.
It would be curious to investigate the rea-
son why, in this land, where sswomen's
rights are almost unheard of, when in
many respects the women are helplessly de-
pendent, and here there is so little general
enlightenment, married women are indie
pendent fnancially-that is to say, they are
treasurers of the partnership, and are not
subject to the humiliation of asking their
husbands for every cent they need for their
own expenses and those of the household.
The husband considers that his wife is as
much entitled to his earnings as he is, and
leaves their disbursement to her judgment.
am glad to say that she does not abuse
this confidence. She is prudent and econ
omica1, and often shows moro sagacity than
he in the use of the money.