Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-12

FROM SEVILLE TO CADlz

FROM SEVILLE TO CADlz
A Mammoth Tobacco t'actory-spsr-
ish Courting-A Visit to the Die
trict Where Sherry lie Made
DAD z and its Beggars.
Correspondence st. Louis Republican.
CADIz, Spain, February, 1883 The
tobacco factory Ia one Of the sights of
Seville. The government mnnopo.
Lies the tobacco business, and the
factory Is an extensive structure
guarded by soldiers. Five thousand
five hundred women are employed In
the building, and there are 5000 Of
them In m room, making cigars and
cigarettes. The room Is low, with huge
columns of masonry and arched over.
head, and is said to be excessively hot
In summer. The women all change
their clothes when they commence
work, and the display of bright oolored
garments hanging all about tho place
Is a curious feature. Many of the
cigarrerss are very handsome aud
somewhat impertinent. Those who
have solve branches" have cradles for
their accommodation, and rock their
children to sleep while busy making
cigarets. The women all work by
the piece, and those who make cigars
earn about 40 or 80 cents o day, while
those who make cigarets earn only
about 80 cents a day by steady work,
The indolent ones-and many were
sleeping at their tables-do not barn
half % much. The use CT tobacco Is
almost universal In Spain, and little
boys In pinafores may be zeen putting
at cigarets. The railroad conductor
smokes as he collects the fares, and I
have see q fine looking clerk, sppar-
emily q gentleman, while waiting on q
lady in q first. class store In Seville,
deliberately stop and light a cigaret,
and indirectly puff the smoke In her
face, and the lady seemed to think 1t
no breach of good behavior. The
S~paniards even emoke between the
courses at dinner, laying down their
oigarets to help themselves to meats or
vegetables, and putting away again as
500 as their portion is Disposed Of.
The dwelling houses of Seville are
admirably adapted to the climate, ind
many of them were erected by the
Moors, several hundred years ago,
who wisely planned them to keep out
the heat. The narrow streets exclude
the sun, and every house of any pre-
tension has an interior court called q
''pstio," around which is a corridor,
and rooms opening from It, The
pstios are generally paved with alter
nate blocks Of polished black and
white marble, ana have banana plants
shrubs and flowers growing in large
tubs or Jars, and there Is sometimes q
fountain In the center. This court Ia
covered with an awning In summer.
The hall or entrance to the patio Ia
paved the same way, and the street
doors are always kept open during the
day and evening. At the inner end
Of the hall are light, open work iron
doors, often of artistic and admirable
workmanship, which are, of course,
kept looked, but permit the passer' by
to look Into the cool and charming
patios with perfect freedom. The
lower windows opening upon the street
T guarded by iron bars or gratings,
and these, with the Iron doors to the
patios, play an important part in the
lives of the young people. The Span.
ish maiden 10 not permitted to meet
her gentlemen friends In private. as
the doubtful custom Ia In America, but
they can come to the grated windows
or doors and whisper soft nothings to
their hearts content. 1t occasions no
remark and attracts no attention for q
oloaked csbellero to stand by the hour
at an iron-barred window, during the
evening, talking to an invisible person
inside. This delightful pastime is
facetiously termed conner hierro-eat
Ing iron,--and is the prevailing mode
of courtship In Spain. Notwithstsnd.
Ing these restrictions, the statistics
prove that there is more immortality
among the Spanish people than there
10 In Frsr cs or Italy.
There Is a factory at Seville, man.
aged by q Sootchman, for making
marmslade from the bitter oranges,
and from four to six tons Of marmalade
Is the daily product They pay 81 81
per box of 1929 pounds of the bitter
oranges, which is m IRE than the sweet
oranges sell for, and many orange
growers are budding their sweet trees
with the bitter variety for the sake
of the greater proft--doing exactly
the reverse OF what is being done In
Florida.
Coming southwark from Seville, we
stopped at Jerez, from which name
and place the world gets Its sherry.
The "bodegas," or wine cellars, are of
vast size, some of them holding two
million gallons of wine. 1t Ia u sug.
gestlve fact that while only about 90.
COO butts of real sherry are produced
every year, $4,000 are shipped an
nually to England alone, and consid-
cradle to other countries. A large
part of the difference between pro.
duction and sales is made up OF
inferior wines from other districts, of
which Is added a small proportion of
real sherry to give 1t name and flavor,
and there is something done, probably
10 the way of out-and-out ''mauufac.
turing" with chemicals and spirits of
wine. Visitors are courteously shown
through the bodegss, and invited to
taste the wine in its various stages OF
development, from n year to ak,
and also that still older up to 100
years. None of the real sherry Is sold
sntil six years old, when it becomes
marketable, and It keeps improving up
to 20 or perhaps 40 years. In one Of
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