The New York herald., 1879-02-03
AROUND THE WORLD.
General Grants Visit to
Andalusia.
DREAM LIFE IN CAD1Z.
Wooins and Winning in the Sentinel City
Of the Mediterranean
DREAM LIFE IN CADIZ.
RELIGIOUS LIFE IN SPAIN.
The Evening Bells Calling
to Prayer.

care taken of the maidens of Spain. The maiden
spends her days in home which is a cloister.
the Prado. where she is prisoner. In some coast
towns-Tarfa among them-she adopts the Moslem
fashion enough to part of her face with VEIL
In Cairo the face is wholly covered. the nose is
brdged with machine that looks like rifle
cartridge, and you only two curious glowing eyes,
They have removed the veil in Cadiz. But dor
mant is Spain that you find now the same social con-
dtons which you read in the novels of Cervantes and
the plays of Caldcron. The maiden is always under
protection. She is not to receive company. She
cannot go forth unless with companion generally
wise lady advanced in years. This is the duenna
or the dragon who sits in watch over the maidenly
virtue. The burden of Spanish comedy is how to
brbe the dragon have some daring confederate WOO
her. Mephistopheles wooed in Faust or climb
in the window. / thoroughly understood the
philosophy of Romeo's courtship until came to
Spain. Why should he have climbed the wall. why
should Mercutio make love to the nurse? Why, in
the end should seek the Intervention Of the friar
One thinks of his own happy prosaic home
where there Valentines. and cheap postage
and Philharmonic concerts, and newspapers
where, in pinch. you may have reason
able rates for advertising. One remembers how in
that advanced land il is the duty of the maidens to
sit in their various draperies until the young men
come and that the signal of their coming is the sig
nal for papa to go to his books and billiards and
mamma to go to bed. Why should Romeo. then
climb over fence and make love from under the
sver-tipped fruit trees to lady the balcony?
Why should such proceeding endanger his life In
this Mediterranean land there is no other way for
enterprising young man to make love, and nothing
would be natural than for Spanish father or
brother to put a sword through any amorous Romeo
he found incoming under his balconies
LOVE SPAIN.
But men and women will love another even in
suspicious Spain In real life there is little climbing
balconies just in realife there is little comedy
tragedy. only the humdrum day following the day.
The secluded maiden wins her trumphs the street
in the church. Forbidden to conquer in the
seclusion OF home she carries her beauty into the
sunshine and under the stars and conquers under
the allconquering universe. All her treasure she
bears with her. That is one reason why there is
such contrast in personal decorations between the
maidens you meet in the Prado and those you on
the Champs Eysees or on Broadway. She comes
forth arraycd with all her taste and fnery. The veil
is seized in the braided hair with jewelled clasp,
and falls in graceful folds the shoulder. Frail,
floating lacework festoons the rich stufs which en-
fold her form, and the light OF the diamond the
pearl flashes out upon you from under the braided
hair or the waving dimple of her chin. Around her
wrist manygemmed bracelets are bound and rosary
falls from her fingers, which hold the prayer book.
/ writing about what the other morning
more especially when. came back from stroll
through the market place. the air suddenly awakened
with the church bells and remembered that it
Sunday. and along the narrow streets came my lady
her way to church. This is the hour of her glory.
this is the hour she gives to prayer and conquest
Now. il there be blessings in those tempta-
tions, cntreaty, conquest let them speak, for
this hour is alone given Other hours are doomed to
my lady along with that stately grace
which you mark well in Spain. At her side is the
ducnna, stiff. elderly lady in black with eyes partly
closed, twirling her beads with her thumbs and
numbling her lips in prayer She is thinking Of the
Virgin; or. perhaps she recalls her days of hope
and entreay, when. with conquering eyes and grace
ful foostep she walked these streets to church.
But they have gone. and she is a dragon
herself. and there conquests for her in
this world, and nothing remains but Our Lady
Of Sorrow. Here, too. the Romeos Of Cadiz--
listening. watching. waiting. They have arrayed
themselves for the encounter The black cloak folds
the breast aud folds the shoulder You
observe that it falls to show the silk lining
of orange purple crimson. 1 suppose these
colors have a meaning, and 1 fancied that when a
young man is very much in love he would show it
by the color of the silken lining. man, for in
stance, the threshold of love- seeing the ystcry
just looming his horizon. might express his
bcwdering hopes in orange. An accepted or triunl-
phant lover could give way to bis emotions in GRIM
while the rejected unhappy soul could proclaim
his grief in purple.
WINNING.
But my lady moves TO church, her bended eyes
looking from under the dropped eyclashes. looking
conquest and cntrcaty. If she also prays she
fumbes her rosary it is TO Our Lady of Consolation.
She moves on TO the church and knecls before the
altar II she has made a conquest-if. as is most
probable the conquest has long been made, you
will observe decent young man pace slowly after
and kneei as the dragon will permit.
OF course they cannot speak. But there
30 many delicious opportunities during the solemn
hours of the when no catch glance of
her eyes, or the heaving Of the bosom or the
manting chcek-when, as she bends her head and
strikes her breast. he know her very thoughts
and send the petition TO our Lady OF Hope.
Perhaps IL he is daring or has made interest with
one OF the church standardization 1 have been told
that such things have happened in spain-hc may
have prayer book slipped into her hand and within
the leaves there will he found sonnet rhapsody.
Here. for instance. is that read tho other day
In one Of the almost forgotten novels Of Ccrvantcs
rhyme which lover slipped into the hands OF the
lady OF his love. 1t is in tho form Of dialoguc-
SYLvAspfi,--who renders love subordinatcf
Tnynsfs-He who knows how to bo silent
SyLy.-Who subjects love TO his lawsy
TiirRsfs-He who has corstancy and faith.
SyLv-And what arrests him IN his flight?
THYRsTs--Perscvcring constancy.
SyLv.-Then the sweet iiuit which may arise
From your fond passion he mne prize.
AMI though my smotbcred tongue be mute
with love, faith. soul. I'll gain nay suit.
-Dut what substantiatcs love?
1nynsis--l'crpct,ial return.
SYLy.-What instantly cxtbgusllcs IL?
1IiynsIs--Contcnrpt and iis'lsn.
SyLy.--Affd these two feelings banishcd?
TuYIuJe--Iiis flames everlasting.
THE HOUR CONQUEST.
This is the hour OF conquest, the consummato
hour IN the maidcn's life. There the evening
walks ON the Prado. when glances may and go;
but thcn all the world Is by, and there music and
dresses and gossip. The night falls and il the lover
feels that lie has not been unwelcomc he goes to his
lady homo. Instead of sending In his card and