Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-06-28
BEAUTIES OF BRAZIL.
Wonderful Physical Charms and Incom'
parable Ignorance and bad Temper.

NOndeflul inNslcal NudftlN anu ibcohf
parable Ignorance and bad Temper.
Bahia i a city Of ll7,0OO population,
and 10 an American. especially young
American, it seems that about 100, 900 Of
that number is composed Of pretty girls,
senoritas Of wonderful physical charms
and an agreeable lack of mental incisive-
ness and assertive opinionism.
The climate is made for love, laziness
and cigarette smoking. In spite of the
enervating influences so prevalent, lots
Of business is transacted in Bahia. mostly
after the Philadelphia plan Of conserva-
tive slowness, sureness and consequent
safety. Big Spanish houses are beginning
to employ an army Of young Americans
10 transact their business, and these same
young fellows, generally, are enterpris-
ing and Of the ''get there" class Many
boys Of excellent family and anteeedents
have matrimonial ''snaps' open TO them
which would make the heart of a real
Italian count throb wildly in an ecstasy
Of Joy. The senoritas, daughters Of
wealthy, influential, often noble, parents,
are anxious, collectively and indiyidu-
ally, to seize upon these transplanted
sons Of freedom. rush them before
priest, and get them for their own prop
erty forever and aye.
The senoritas are as beautiful as hours
in youth, and can love like house afire.
Their figures are universally models of
brunette Nenuses, and their feet arched
like rainbows, and Cinderellian In size.
Their glorious eyes can set any well con-
stituted mans blood going like respira-
tion pump at a single glance; and their
ruby lips are, as many Of the boys can
practically prove, equally perfect in
action for kissing or cigarette smoking.
They have money-many Of them lots of
it-and they stand ready and willing with
all their worldly goods to endow almost
! any young American Of whose affections
| they can become undisputed mistress.
| In fact, at first acquaintance senorita Is
an angel. Venus and a muse all rolled
| into one. But-for there is but, and a
HYDRA headed one-the diverse OF this
pleasing picture comes under observation
after a longer acquaintance. Senorita,
first Of all. is ignorant-as ignorant as
sin. She is passionate, and passion in
the tropics means jealousy which is in
sanity when thoroughly aroused. She is
unscrupulously barbaric, and has O
temper compared TO which, when once
aroused, cyclone is gentle zephyr.
Besides these few minor points which
must be counted against senorita, there
is another, II most illusion dispelling fact,
which cannot be overlooked. Senorita's
beauty is rs tleeting US fog. as evanescent
as a sunbeam, thing of the present
solely, which has no place in the future
that is, in that future which stretches
beyond the age Of 80 years. At 10 she Is
picture; at 90 a dream Of oriental
loveliness, hasheesh inspiration to stir
mems souls 10 any deed; at 25 she 10
slightly passe; ut 80 she is hag, obese,
yellow, sharp voiced, possibly addicted
TO drink, and certainly addicted to the
pipe and cigarette. She lacks all the
mental beauties which adorn the perfect
nature and make the summer Of married
life more enjoyable than the fltful spring,
and hT physical perfection is gone for
ever For those who live but in the
present the South American matrimonial
mnrkct Is rich In bargains. however, and
any Young mnn OF passable looks, cduca-
Z ton and manners can pull prize nom
the lottery, which, II Il furnishes soon,
Ia, nevertheless, very brightly gilt and a
thing Of beauty while its lOycliness lasts.
-Bahia Cor. Chicago Mail.