The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-07-20
THE ROUMANIANS.
distressing Descriptloa OF the Ladies'
and Gentlemen of RoumsniA and Bull
garia.


and Gentlemen of Roumsnis and Bull
garia.
The passion of the Roumanian-Bul-
garian women is dress. To be dressed
in clothes from Paris is to them the
summit of earthly bliss. Fashion is
their goddess and even among the peas
ants she is exacting Each village has
its particular costume, and when 8
buxom belle enters shop she mentions
her village, and is Immediately shown
the particular style of dress which is
supposed to be thoroughly chic there.
She shows a noble disregard for pomp
and vanity, however, as she trudges
home from market with the convent
emily loose front of her white linen
jacket filled with cabbages, turnips,
eggs and any other spoils of shopping
tour. But on her wedding day she Is
gorgeous-glittering with glass and
amber beads. and covered with really
beautiful embroideries. The groom
is like a brigand in the Opera-he
wears red hussar jacket green waist
coat (both a mass of embroidery)r
a red sash bristling with silver
mounted revolyers and knives; his white
pctticoats are tucked and stiffened till
they stand oft like a ballet dancers,
and his shapely legs are covered with
fawn-colored trousers hooked up the
sides with an endless array of hooks and
eyes, while, to complete his appearance
as young blood, the bowl of his pipe
towers over his hat, the stem being
stuck down the back of his neck. He is
generally lucky dog, for the Bulgarian
woman is a gentle soul-warm-hearted
and kindly. She greets the wayfarer
Hospitality, gives him place before the
fire and a supper of damper-an ex-
pansive dough, which swells like cork
inside him and makes his sleep reign
of terror.
Rich Bulgarians and Roumanisns, at
Sofia, Bucharest and the other large cities,
are grandees. The women are hand
some as pictures. Large and lazy, they
spend their days on divans, eating can
dies, smoking cigarettes and reading
French novels-fOr all well-educated
Bulgarians speak French like Parisians.
When they goout, they drive. Walking
they abhor. A stiff leather boot on the
plump foot of a Bulgarian belle would
cause her agony. Exertion bores her;
she is always languidly lazy and grace
full, always gorgeously and gaudily
dressed in the latest novelty from Paris,
and always falling in and out of love. To
her, divorce is bagatelle- Ii seldom
causes unpleasantness; everybody re-
mains on perfectly good terms with
everybody else; it is all a matter of con-
venience; she and her husband don't
agree. that is all. After the divorce she
marries somebody else, and so on da
cdpo. The successive members of the
dynasty of husbands are all friendly
with each other and with her. When
Bulgarian beauty-fat, slow, handsome
and gorgeous as a bird of paradise
enters a ballroom, she bows to husband
No. l. who is chatting to husband No. 2
in 8 corner; then seeing husband No. 8
leaning on the mantelpiece. she blows
him Kiss. whispers a soft nothing TO
No. 4. on whose arm she leans, and ali
the time her dark sleepy eyes are keep
ing a sharp lookout on the door for
the entrance of the prospective No. D.
A ROumanian "randee remarked once
of society at Bucharest: Marriage with
us resembles & mazourka, in which our
ladies take turn first with one cava-
licr and then with another" Another
great diversion of the Bulgarian and
Roumanian great lady, almost of more
Importance than her next change of
partners, is her trip to Paris. To give
that mn &c tho cfrhlip,oSt Of GOLF 80 oriffoa
Americans love Paris. Russians adore it,
but Bulgarians worship it. After her
stay in the gay capital, she comes back
laden with fine clothes, and flaunts
them in the faces of her bosom friends
with refined cruely. Her taste, how
ever, is sometimes eccentric. Says q
recent Danubian traveller: The ladies
we took on board here were all in mag
nificent toilets of the newest French
fashion; but being of an over-smart de-
scription and put on in a slovenly man.
ner, gave the wearers an up-all-nightish
look anything but taking. The men
were also dressed in French fashion, and
from their dark, sallow appearance and
general cast of features showed clearly
that their ancestors, the Roman con-
victs, had largely intermarried with the
gypsies." In fact, the gentlemen in
question, who introduced themselves as
Roumanian princes, were in reality
species of Oriental confidence men-a
variety of the human species which
fiourishes in Turkey as elsewhere
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