San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-06
Newhaven ~FishwOmen.

Newnaven FishwOmen.
Though women are always considered
more conservative than men, in matters of
dress they are generally liberal, if not rad
ical. They welcome the new and despise
the old. But in Newhaven the conserva-
tism is strong enough even to preserve the
dress unchanged. All who have visited
Edinburgh know it-a dress as unique and
almost as striking as that of the Scotch
Highlanders. There is a superabundance
of petticOats, unsupported by any appli
ances of art to swell out the proper degree
of bunchiness necessary to the style. These
are short enough to show the neat trim
ankle Cased in white or navy blue home
knitted stockings and strong shoes, gener.
ally with a buckle in front; they are OF
striped druggeJ, with red or blue or yellow
on a ground of white, and the upper one Is
turned up Sc as to form a pouch over ar
apron with pockets in it.
They wear a cap of linen or muslin, over
which is a stout napkin tied under tbe
chin, upon which the broad leather band
of the ~"creel' rests on the head. They
nave gaily colored Garibaldi bodices, gen
orally turned up to the elbows and open at
the throat, showing a snowy wimpled un.
der vest. a large dark blue pea Jacket
generally with a hood, ~surGaOunts the
other garments to prevent the soil and
wear of the heavy creel or fish basket
The unmarried women wear the same at.
tire, but without the cap. How the womer
manage to keep themselves as clean as
they do with a Shiny and scaiy burden
AMI business is a marval. 1t must be
no.sd, however, that other f~Shcrwomer
from further east partly initiate then
dress, But do not keep up the same spat
less purity of clothes. So we must be sur.
when we investigate that we have caught
genuine Newhaven ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Would
Characteristic of the Texans.
Texas, settled as it is with immigrants
from every part of the Union and of Europe,
presents such a variety of character among
its people that it will be hard to say what
is their most prominent trait. The per-
sOnal characteristic which used to distin-
guish them are changing. In early times
their lives as pioneers were so hard and
fraught with danger that it made them
grave and even severe, but now they have
become decidedly a gay people, pleasure
loving and pleasure seeking. Formerly a
rigid plainness and severity marked their
lives and surroundings. At this day, even
in the Counties remote from the centers of
population, their tastes nave become more
luxurious. They crave the esganCies and
refinements of life, which is but the nat
ural effect of the superior facilities for
education which distinguish the state.
Yet with the simplicity has disappeared
much of the hospitality of the Olden time;
the warn and unquestioning welcome
grows rarer each day, and the entertain.
ment of guests is more a matter of Calcula-
ton or distant social obligation than a
spontaneous o%utpouring of hospitable
hearts. Yet away off upon the frontier
are still found, here and there, specimens
of those strong, brave early settlers who
live literally with their lives in their
hands, establishing themselves far beyond
the Outposts of civilization, not knowing
at what time the red men might raid upon
them and lay their homes in ashes. Sturdy
houses those, stoCkades they might better
be called, built of heavy upright logs, with
matched or sodded roofs, houses that are
forts as we'll as homes. And there is
found "A rare hospitality which asks no
questions, but entertains the wayfarer.
giving him all that he requires and that
their store affords without money and
without price. Lee c. Hardy in Har-
per's.