Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-21
CUBAN WOMEN.
ARE THEY TIL, MOST BEAUTIFUL
OF Their SEX.
Nearly as the Lord Made 1-hem and
Not MARRIED by Attempts 81
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Springfield Republican,. !


Altogether believe the Cuban women
and that should also include TIE NO men o
| Spanish birth in Cuba-to be one u TN
most lovely types OF the sex. She ia.
not have so much "soup as some Ama
can women, but of the Cuban wemargfa
loveliness there can be no question. She.
is beautiful in form, in movement, in face.
From the nina or little girl 30 old age she.
| is beautiful. She is winsome as a oh I'D.
lovely as a maiden, enhancing as a sweet
heart, adorable as a wife, dear and sweet
as mother, and again charming and win
some when the days have come wherein
she is child again. Somehow that sort
of thing, all the way along, would seem to
comprise conditions ont of which good
women could secure the truest worship.
the happiest lives. And, in spite of what
may seem their objectless idleness, ] be-
lieve they do here.
In the physical beauty of Cuban wonaen
the commanding features are the foot,
whose daintiness and symmetry are mar
velous; the supple, willowy grace of move
AiASib Vi Rclooil, tilC CAtufoitSlN LHOuSISu
form, and the eyes, which never lose their
luster and glow. Cuban women wear shoes
no larger than No. i size for women in the
States. Nor is this diminutive size the
result Of any pinching process. She is
born that way. That is, her foot. You
could hold two of them in your one hand |
And, whatever the womans weight or
size, the foot is universally this dainty |
and beautiful thing. Its arch is wonder |
full. But one thing about it ofiends the |
foreigners eye. That is-the high narrow |
boot heel, two or three inches long, and |
scarcely third of an inch at its narrow
est part. One feels afraid of accidents and |
contretemps from it. But this pretty |
footed woman is a sure-f footed one She is |
the most graceful woman on her feet, in |
her walk and carriage in the promenade, |
or in the dance, you ever saw. So |
this sinewy, 1.-the grace must also be |
inbred, part of the grain, fiber, blood |
and the very spirit back of them. |
As to her form, it is perfection.
Nine women out Of ten you meet are mod |
els of symmetry. | should say they were
rather under the size of our average |
American women. There is n greater del
icacy in line and proportion. They do
not torture their persons or themselves. |
They do not endeavor to abolish the action |
of every vital organ, and those organs
themselves in an effort to rival the hour
glass in form. They are themselves.
Many American women ruin themselves |
and sicken the public endeavoring to be
something besides women all around. |
These women are pretty nearly as God |
made them.
The Cuban woman's face may be said to |
be wholly interesting and lovely rather |
than wholly beautiful. Its beauty is in its |
expression rather than in repose Some |
faces of women are grand and classic in re- |
pose | have seen many English, German |
and American women of that type But |
when they spoke, or awakened to mental |
or social activity the spell was gone
There is type of beauty, or loyeliness, |
which glows in activity. 1t seems TO warm |
and color and beam with a certain good |
ness of nature, of heart, of SOUL behind |
it. You can hardly tell where it is or |
what it is, but you see it truly. 1t is some
thing of this subtle sort men expect and |
want, in the face of women. And it is |
something like this that is very engaging |
in the Cuban woman's face. This, face is
of the Latin mold, oval, and with a deli |
cate protruding of pretty and shapely
chin. Her complexion is waXen, creamy,
with no carnation in her cheeks But her
mouth, large, mobile, tremulous, with Just
a suggestion of pathos in the slight draw
ing down at the corners, has lips so red
and ripe that her ever-perfeet teeth dazzle
in brilliant contrast. Her hair is of that
lead-back darkness which suggests a
weird, soft mist upon the night, and is in
deed a glory ever. But her eyes are her
priceless, browning loveliness, her never
ending power and charm. They cannot
be described. When you say that they
are dark, dreamy yet glowing, flash
ing with fire, liquid with languor, you
have only limited their inexpressible ex-
pressiveness. They are the same eyes at
S, at 10, at 80. And so it is that this
woman, her features in active play, her
grace, her good nature, her good breeding
which rightly means good heartedness,
seems to you the perfect maid and mother;
because you find her the beauty men love
to find, the grace all the world admires,
the charm of modesty all save women of
pretended genius can tolerate, the fidelity
that itself holds all loyalty to it, and the
lady and woman true, who appreciates and
loves that royal queenship which owns the
home as the most priceless and noblest
realm of woman. This, is the real Cuban
woman honestly told.