Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-04
SOME INTERESTING WOMEN.
LOun1ing I'm Windows, Defying In.
diana, Running Races ANA Receiv.
ing Homage.

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From the Albany Fair Journal
In the dreamland OF Cuba, where every house
has barred windows and fortress-like doors, I re-
allied that the women were prisoners, though I
doubt whether they would have valued compass
sion SINCE Ike canaries, they have been In duress
so many generations as to have lost the stand
point from which to judge between freedom and
thraldom Though / visited towns that had
scarcely known any change, except what earth
quakes had brought them, since Cortez
rested In them on his way to conquer Mex
ico, saw no sight so strange as that OF the
ing iazily out OF their great black orbs at who
ever passed along the street. Those who were
nad ioSl their good looks in a superabundance OF
nesn They could not go out OF doors In the day
PANEL by a parent or guardian. And when
they went shopping the clerks attended them
they 20 o az ana ne s9ag aSr
out under great burdens OF goods. You can
imagine that shopping there is neither u pas
Isn't II In Paris that the women are so fond OF 1t?
50, after the morning was spent at hOusework and
Veile1 visit 10 church, the cuban ladies dressed
10 iou In the windows and their SweetheartS crept
along close TO the walls and chatted with them, II
no Old woman was by to prevent them and II they
able to converse with their hearts delights
Before they could do that they had to walk along
the streets ever 50 many times, past their sweet
hearts windows, waiting TO be noticed and nirted
Wlth and then came a long period OF Ogng and
the exchanging OF swift glances and peepng be-
hind fans and waving CT handkerchiefs-ail ex-
treinely silly in the eyes OF American girls.
One day was making my way through dis
NAL piece or woodland In Canada, on the Outskirt-
the snow lay piled up all over the country! Sud.
denly heard merry voices and the cracking or
tw!gs and rustling OF brush. Just as suddenly the
figure OF young man in the uniform OF the Tuque
beue Snowshow Club appeared, ascending Knoll
Three girls were at his heels, followed by other
Young men and women. There was new view OF
TIE possibilities OF womanhOod Our \ nkee girls,
best OF all in the best OF the sexes, have liberty
enough but how few use IT TO place themselves side
Dy side with the men in their athletic sports! How
ruddy and brght-eyed and wholesome were
these Canadian maidens! How superbly they
were framed and how Overlooking with animal
spirits they were! Afterward saw them skating
for hours and covering miles OF ice hand In hand
with their brothers (and the brothers OF other
folks, and at tobogganiag, driving and a all the
most, ir not quite, the equals OF the lnen. When
IL came to dancing. as was informed, the merry
ing the young gentlemen from the states
Off their feet once In while, and swing
Ing around with them, as New York girl
might do with child-iI it was small enough.
Far over on the Pacir1c coast or the same cOun-
try anu on Vancouver Island found another race
OF women-sQuaws OF some tribes allied TO the
belonged TO such rude order OF civilization that
could scarcely expect TO interest any young lady
for the married ladies, and might even arouse
envy in the breasts OF some fair matrOns for their
customs allow each wife to have "an assistant
husband" Better yet, their husbands do not Sc
lect their own assistants; this Is left to the fair
ladies themselves. These assistant husbands have
10 do what the New England folks call "chores"
for the women-get kindl1ng wood, run on errands
and make themselves useful in all mental ways.
Their only reward and recOmpense Is that II the
goes away for any uncomfortable length OF time,
they marry the woman for whom they have been
working.
on the plains, in Assiniboia, I found little lady
I'm the larger OF the only two stores in the place,
who told me that the Indians on reservation close
by had begun to grow restless, and were manifest
ing the fact by unusual inSOlence. Only the day
before dozen OF the braves had come into the
store, when she was stark alone in 1t, and had de-
lowed TO touch and no one was permitted to sell.
She told them she had none, and they sat, as In
dams WILL FOR long time as II TO show her they
enough, no one came to the store from the set
tlement. BY and by the Indians proposed TO
search for the whisky. She laughed at them and
told them they could search. They did so, peeping
and pOking everywhere that they could think OI.
When they offered TO go upstairs to her living
apartments she stood in the doorway and told
them they must not venture there. She nattened
her back against the door and defied them. She
was less than the ordinary height and did not
the eye OF a brave and determined woman, and
when, presently, some white men came TO make
some purchases, the Indians TOOK themselves of.
only u few nights before that this same woman
had seen wolf in her back yard and had gone out
and "ShoOed" II away with her apron and her
scolding, Just as one OF our girls might do with
cat. / never saw a man that thought more
plucky than she. Perhaps, though, what no Indian
or wolf could do might be done by mouse. But
IT is beyond all reason to expect the bravest not TO
fear a mouse.
In our southern states one gets still another
view OF woman. / went through the Virginia
mountains and learned that south or Mason and
DiXons line every white woman is a queen, idol
lied by brothers. husband, sons and fathers; re-
spected as II Sa1nted by her nelghbOrS. When a
poor Old woman entered railroad depot that was
crowded by men at a time when 1t was not
pected that any woman would be travelling, every
man in that aSSemb.age rose TO his feet In order
that she might select what seat she wished, and
those men who were smoking went out and stood
In the rain rather than chance to offend her. One
OF the men who did this was Fltz Hugh Lee, now
governor OF the state. That was only one lluStra-
ton or a chivalric Difference toward women every
where observable and everywhere rejecting honor