The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-29
HAYTrs ANtAZONS.
The Ebony Damsels Whom Legitime
Has Enlisted in Els Army.
From the beJg Orleans P'camne.

Has Enlisted in Els Army.
From the NeJg O-leGns P1caYtne.
The war in Hayti where tue alleged
rightful ruler Legitime Is being driven into
his last ditch by the alleged revolutionary
leader Hippolyte. has developed an interest
ing feature in thedraftiug Of women into the
army of the former. Legiime has been
worsted on every field and driven back
until bis domain IS limited pretty nearly TO
his cap tai city Of Port au Prince. As his
army has dwinded away largely by dsssr-
ton TO the Other facti N, ne found himself
without troops TO man his fortI icatiOns: for
his city was long ago strongly fortifsd by
the Spaniards and French who held 1t at
different periods
In this extremity Legitime has hit upon
the plan Of filing up his depleted ranks with
women. There being q surplus of the
s)f or sex in the capital of the negro re-
public, 1t has bee JSsible to enroll quite
number Of these ebony amaze IS, VINO are
not embodied in exclusive b9ttalIons or
their own sex, but are disrrbu ed among
the N n. These women are dressed in mas
cullne costume, and sad to look very much
ike negro youths Of the male persuasion.
The Haytian negr es, where they have
been analgamated with the native CARDS,
have become almost beardless particularly
when the men are young. and hence these
Haytlan amazons are said u be disJi gulsh-
able from the males, when all are standing
IN line together, chiefly by the fact that the
faces Of the women are N )re pleasing ana
less hard and bru-a than are those of the
men. Every erson who has seen our own
t IT nazons on the stage or engaged IN
broom d i'll Will have noticed that il the
peculiar conformation Of the sex the supe-
riOr swell at tn naunches and the lesser
breadth If shoulders combine to exert
special effect upon tia ma ual of arms.
When the guns are brought u a carry"
being rested aSaIn,J the MP and upol the
sh ulder, they do not stand erect but ln-
cline at an angle toward the head of the
fair soldier Moreover, when
the troops are aligned in position Of the
soldier it is more easy for them to touch
hips than elbows as required by the code,
and should the ii ne ever come when the
armies OF the white nations are TO be made
up OF women it is 10 be hoped, in the inter
est of grace and symmetry, that somebody
viii design special arms and a manu- / for
their use suited to the conformation of tue
beautiful sex. When the masculine crea-
ture takes up thu trade of a soldier he goes
in for snow and gets himself up as gor-
geously as possible. If we are to have here
after an army Of amazons, they should be
made up altogether lovely Fortunately,
will OF be perpetuated. That wa, done to
enable the fair warrior to draw the bow to
its utmost reach Now, the dra wiag of the
beaux is do % in quite different MANNER,
as the ancient weapons Of barLarism have
all been discarded.
But to return to the Haytians, those sable
Mol Pitchers and maids of Saragossa have
not yet done any lighting; but if they
should be driveS to it they will probably
display as much bravery as women do ia
an emergency. 1t seems a brutal outrage
to drive the softer sex into battle, but f we
are to credit ancient traditions, it has been
often done. and in view Of the fact tn 1T the
entire civilized world is accumula-
ting constantly increasing def
cheney of men and CORE
spending excess in the number of women,
it is not out of the reach If possibility that
the myths of the old world amaze IS NAV be
realized in fact as time advances. What
has been will be again.