, 1888-06-16
OF BRAZIL.
Wonderful Physical Charms and IDoom-
parable Ignorance and Bad Temper.

"ohocfiui hhystcal Snhrns ana InCOm-
parable Ignorance and Bad Temper.
Bahia is a city of lis, 900 population,
and to an American, especially a young
American, it seems that about 100, 900 OF
that number is composed of pretty girls
seuoritas 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, surenes and consequent
safety. Big Spanish houses are beginning
to employ an army OF young Americans
to transact their business, and these same
young fellows, generally, are enterpris-
ing and of the get there" class. Many
boys Of excellent family and antecedents
have matrimonial snaps" open to them
which would make the he7st 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 individu-
ally, to seize upon these trlnsplanted
sons OF freedom, rush them before n
priest, and get them for their own prop
erty forever and aye
The senoritas are as beautiful as hours
in youth, and al love like q house afire.
Their figures are universally models Of
brunette Venuses, and their feet arched
like rainbows, and Cinderellian in size.
Their glorious eyes can set any well con-
stituted mans blood going like q respira-
ton pump at a single glance; and their
ruby lips are, Us 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 "A become undisputed mistress.
In fact, at first acquaintance senorita is
an angel, n Venus and a muse all rolled
into one. But-for there is a but and n
hydra headed one-the diverse OF this
pleasing picture comes under observation
after a longer acquaintance. Senorita,
first of all, is ~ignorant-as ignorant rs
sin. She is passionate. and passion in
the tropics means a jealousy which is in
sanity when thoroughly aroused. She is
unscrupulously barbaric, and has a
temper compared TO which, when once
aroused, a cyclone is a gentle zephyr.
Besides these few minor points which
must DS COunteu against senOrlta, there
is another, a most illusion dispelling fact,
which cannot be overlooked. Senorita's
beauty is as fleeing as fog, as evanescent
as a sunbeam, a 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
a picture; at 90 a dream of oriental
loneliness, a hasheesh inspiration to stir
mems souls to any deed; at 25 she is
slightly passe; at 80 she is a bag, 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 fitful spring,
and her physical perfection is gone for
ever. For those who live but in the
present the South American matrimonial
market is rich in bargains. however, and
any young man-of passable looks, educa-
ton and manners can pull a prize from
the lottery, which, if it furnishes soon,
is. nevertheless, very brightly gilt and q
thing of beauty while its loveliness lasts.
Bahia Cor. Chicago Mail.