Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-23
SPANS FAIR DANES.


Land OF the Troubadours.
When D. Spanish woman Is beautiful
she Is beyond compare; but this
transoendent beauty, contrary TO what
travellers would have us believe, is the
exception rather than the rule fn
Spain. and the common type of woman
kind il not prepossessing whilst, sad
TO say. Spanish woman's good looks
last but a brief span, and as she puts
on years she Invariably puts on flesh.
whilst long before she arrives at the
age when we in America consider a
woman has a right to be both flair
and fat, the symmetry Of her form is
certainly not of the character that an
| aesthetic poet would rave about In.
fact, one of the chief reasons why so
few foreigners marry Spanish women
Is, | believe, OH this account A man
must be very much gone on the
| senorita of his choice and be possessed
of Bayardian loyalty If he does not
desire to escape from the engagement
on seeing his mother-in-law elect. 1t
is really tax upon any mans chivalry
and devotion to be suddenly confronted
with mamma and the senoras of the
family, and to know that the sylph-
like Venta by his side will inevitably
become every whit as bulky and un-
wieldy as they.
Chaperoning is vigorously exercised
In all parts OF Spain, country where
/ it is not respectable for a female to go
out alone. Every young woman. even
unto them who are perfectly capable
of taking care Of themselves, has her
chaperone when she takes her walks
abroad.
| Argus may have been cute, but in a
trial of vigilance / would, I think, be
inclined to put my money on the Span
ish materfamilias, who not only keeps
her chicks under her wing with care
equal to that of the most devoted
mother hen, but she can sight posi-
BILE poacher long before he is visible tc
the ordinary eye But then, in justice,
it should be added that it would not be
safe for any young girl to walk in the
streets unattended, for Spaniards,
although exceedingly punctilious and
formal, are not in reality courteous,
and their views in regard to women in
general are embraced in cynical Tai
leyrand's three golden rules: L'op7oor
tunite, L'opportunite. L'opportunfte
Then a Spaniard's everyday language
even in the presence of his womer
folk, is of the most free-and-easy de
scription.
Spanish women have fewer vice.
than those of many other nations
They are naturally xoluptuous, bu
they are scrupulously loyal to thos.
whom they love, making devoted
obedient wives, without botherins
their heads about woman's rights. O.
any of those questions which vex tn,
;ouls of their more masculine-minde,
sisters in this country. They have al
the curiosity and but little of the Ii
tuition common to their sex in European
Countries. They have all the Moslen
wonlan's hatred of physical exercise
, Whilst the majority of the lower classe
.. an hardly read or write, the educa
ion of the middle classes is practical
; limited to grounding in matter
; ppertaining to the rights and usage
t the mother church. Their liter
ture is almost entirely OF religion
haracter, interleaved with vulgar &C
cunts of the doing of the bull-ring
# the works OF foreign authors zh
nows but little, even by name, willis
er acquaintance with those of he
wn countrymen is, as rule, confine
trashy productions of questionabl
:haracter. Madrid Letter.