The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-03
CUBAN BELLIES.
How the PreakE Girls II Havans .
Locked Up EtlEs Gagged Birds.

How tha PRETTY Girls Of lHAyans are
Locked Up Lt1Es Gagged Birds.
Clara Be4l In Cincinnati Enquirer.
In nv own country I am q radical
about women,s privileges. T Wa one
of the arsf % organize evening theatre
partiSs exclusively Of young ladies sim
DIV 70 break dottn 4buBed old fOgy ideas
I grew eloquent IS reasoned with my
young friends about the ahsurdiiy Of all
this Cuban 6dels rot. Here you are,
getting fat and puffy. simply from
daWdline about sill day, eating sleeping
and rocking or lounging. Ia Q window
like cats. Besides it u not the way to
treat your friends. came to this beau
tifrlI etsy, and you can't take me out rid
ing or WALKING 90 show me anything.
The theaters are not open YOU say, or
Won WOuld get papa 10 tahe Hs some
evening; or I can wait till to-morTUw
and cit in tine carriage Ct the plaza
lIstenfne TO 9 military band. It is simply
too perfegtly absurdI II Oneof you does
moi out On her nantlIla, order 0utth car
rIsge and take me 10 see the sights IN
20 back 10 New York and tell all your
friends that yoa are no less fetteHed than
your niggersi"
Well I shaned the younger one into
doing as / said. She looked pale
through her powder (Oh, mercy how
they do powder their faces necks ana
arms down there; they look like lot of
female millers G-actually turned winter
than rice 20 Hder ct the thought OF what
she was doing; but she gets Tssdy, and
we drive of. In. o. kellly street want
ed to see inside Of some OF the stores;
did not want any clerk staggering out to
me with his arms full Of goods on the
side walk. I actually prevailed on my
friend to get out of the victoria and go
into the store, and then l got her TO
walk across the street to another store.
She said she had heard that some ladies
had begun the American practice two or
three years ago but that none OF her set
had eyer done so. Wen she poked
around two or three shopping stores
nice stores they were, and their fronts
all open on the street, as if they had no
walls; and bought fan. parasol and
lace scarf that was Killing my friends
with envy. MY COt1paniop was in
agony. 81 am doing wrong" said she,
AZ will get back in the carriage and
drive along slowly alter you" Her
voice was so hoarse that / thought she
was going to be i'll. "All right" said l,
"on1y, tell you its all nonsence." But
1t was too late. III the store she met an
uncle, who glared instead of bowling
We drove home by the way Prado, and
saw the best part of the city, and then
we got into the windOW-sill and lounged
there like Persians. The two sisters
whispered together about the uncle,
and could see they were alarmed.
IT DINNER.
He came and held long pow-Wow with
their father and mother. Then he
bounced out, and my companion of the
afternoon was sent for. While she was
with her parents / heard high voices,
and when she came back she was in
tears. She said that she had never been
spoken to before in such a manner; that
| could not dream what had been said TO
her; that she was told she had disgraced
the family and jeopardIaed her own
good name. At tie dining table the old
gentleman froze me, and the old lady WAS
so frigIdlY polite you would have thought
she had swallowed a poker. l got the
elder girl to translate little speech of
mine into Spanish, in which l tried to
take the blame, but it did not work.
The girls were Toying to me afterwards,
and we went out each evening with Miss
Conception and had pleasant queer
sort of a time; but l could see that l
W0ulQ never DC HelcOLnSu w bHC Olu
couple again, and that my character in
their eye vos very tissuey and thread
bare.
No, no; / love my American sisters
better since returned to them than be-
fore. They don't know how to put on
a ma1tilla or how to use fan, but they
are sensible and practical and active.
Some are full of fun, some are full of en-
ergy, others thrill with genius, and yet
others are shreWd at business. Some
are pretty because of their beauty, some
because Of their good, taste and some by
reason Of their intelligence oftheir faces.
A man who chooses wisely In this cOun
try gets a creature of beauty who Will be
a.iOy forever. In Cuba he is apt to bar
gain for pretty girl and finds homely
old fat woman on his hands. But there
is no discounting the brilliaucy of an as
semblage of
PRETTY CUBANS.
saw one in u theater. They came in
their light silks, bare.headed, except for
the film of pure white or jet black lace
that fell from the back of each ones
head to her shOtlldrr's,ablsne with gold
and gems, and sat In terTHces of vaTtie
gated gaudinrss with their lace ribbons
and ali fluttering in the tremulOus breezeS
| FrOu, fha;r Saving fans At a diStanca