The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-09-06
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rightfl,l ruler, Legitimc. is being driven
into his last ditch by the alleged revolu-
tionary leader, Hippolyte, has deyel-
opea an interesting feature in the draft
ing of women into the army of the
former. Legitimc has been worstel ON
every field and driven back until his do
main is limited pretty nearly to his capt.
tai city of Port-an-l'rinc As his army
has dwindled away largely 10y dcscrtion
to the other f%action, he found himself
without troops to man his Notifications,
for his city was long ago strongly forth
fed by the Spaniards and French who
held it nj different periods.
In this extremity Lcgitime has hit
upon a plan of filling mp his depleted
ranks with women. There being q sur
plus of the softer sex in the capital OF
the negro republic, it has been possible
to enroll quite a number of these ebony
Amazons, who nae not embodied in OK.
elusive battalions of their own sex, but
are distributed among the men. These
women are dressed i'll masculine costume
and look much like negro youths.
The Haytian negroes, where they
have been amalgamated with the native
Caribs, have become almost beardless,
particularly when the mel are young
and hence these Haytian Amazons are
said to be distinguishable from the
males, when they are standing in a line
together, chiefly by the fact that the
faces of the women are more pleasing
and less hard and brutal than are those
OF the Nell. livery person who has seen
our WI fair amazons on the stage OF
engaged in a broom drill will have
noticed that i'll the peculiar confor-
nation of the sex the peculiar swell at
the launches and the lesser breadth OF
shoulders combine to exert special eff
fccts upon the manual of arms.
When the guns are brought to a
Garry" being rested against the hip
and upon the shoulder, they do not
stand erect, but incline Mt an angle to-
ward the head of the fair soldier. More
over. when the troops are aligned in
position of u soldier it is more easy
for them to touch hips than elbows, as
required by the code, and should the
time eve come when the armies of the
white nations are to be made up of wo-
men, it is to he hoped, in the interest of
grace and symmetry, that somebody
will design special arms and a manual
for their Use suited to the conformation
of the beautiful sex. When the mascu-
line creature takes up the trade of q
soldier he goes i'll for show and gets
himself up as gorgeously as possible.
LII we are to have hereafter an army of
amazons they should be made up alto
gether lovely. Fortunately the ancient
style of incision of the breast will not
be perpetuated. That was done to
enable the fair warrior to draw the bow
to its utmost reach. Now the drawing
of the beau is done in quite n different
manner, rs the ancient weapons of bar-
barism have all been discarded.
But to return to the Haytians, those
sable Moll Pitchers and maids of Sara
gossa have not yet done any fighting,
but if they should be driven to it they
will probably display as much bravery
as women do in an emergency. 1t seems
a brutal outrage to drive the softer sex
into battle, but if we are to credit
ancient traditions, it has often been
done, and in view of the fact that the
entire civilized world is accommodating q
constantly increasing deficiency of men
and a corresponding excess in the num-
Der of women, it is not out of the reach
of possibility that the myths of the Old
World amazons may be realized in fact
as time advances. What has been will
be again .-New orleans Picayune.
nHT THE TT0vS