Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-07-30

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good-what a shame we are not let /
into the secret
The gloom clears away from the I
house OF the matador. there contin- F.
ues rejoicing all that day. Eel Z.
Chatto" and his pretty wife have a
most Joyous comida, and afterward F.
lay their heads together on the subject
Of the morrow 5 fight. and a special
. Spanish costume that Lolita Is 90
wear-one Of old Sevilla-all rose
pink aud Spanish mantilla. with pink
rose ia her blue-black hair, this latter
being another of the mysteries. IN
/ Mexico few ladies' ever wear the cos
/ tune Of old Spain-it IS as much
worn out. passe. here as the patches.
aud powder. and hoops OF the revolu-
+ tionary days are In Anglo-Saxon lands.
But out OF an old box she drags the
dress, and shakes. aud brushes. and
sews ~ until even the critical
"Chatto" pronounces 1t "Muy bon
tia" But why IS she wearing It to-
morrow Unless. indeed. II
Is because fully fifteen enormously
rich Spanish families have taken
boxes and Will be there Perhaps
that Is 1t, Lolita wishes to be patri-
otic-that Is what Is the matter,
Tomorrow seems such a long time
in coming, but finally It Is here-all
balmy. blue sky, with never white
cloud 20 mar it. soft. warm breezes.
laden with the perfume Of the roses
and lilies that are Just beginning 70
bloom. the violets over and done
With for this year. the silvery pealing
and Ginning Of the hundreds of bells
that are yainly calling the faithful to
prayer Every one Is either IN the
great bull-ring IL Colon. or getting
there as fast as he or she can. IL Is
the first fight for month, and there
viii not be another one Tor yet a
month 20 come.
On the cheap side-''the side Of the
sun white garmented poems, with
big sombreros, choke up every inch OF
space. and shout and veil loudly dur
p ing the performance As for the shady
side. II Is we'll flled-wi.h rict
, Spaniards a. that-for which reason
the heart of Dona Lolita reIOices TIA,
more Spaniards. the more dinero
"Olala that there were nothing bu
I, Spaniards. she thinks
She has pUrpOsely taken a seat JUS
behind the 6rst barrier of the bull
ring-not seven feet above the grouns
=, where her husband will kill his bull
$50 that she can see him better, a
p, she Isps 20 an admiring Mexican
fighter. who wishes her 10 go into on
-, OF the boxes.
: In her Sevillan costume, the sill
mantillG exposing Just enough Of be
Spanish eyes aud dimpled chin Z
!. make people want 70 see more, Don
n Lolita Is by far the most admired w
man IN the Plaza. distracting atten
= ton even from the beautiful banderlll
work that Eel Largo" Is going throug
= With IN the ring. Many glasses ar
n levelled at the little Espanola, as 81
n so demurely watches for her husband
= Many a rich Spanish lady up there /
the boxes envies the loyalty that la
a induced the wearing of a passe dres:
II and many a Spaniard feels his heal
: grow warm aud his eyes moist as, fOI
! getting the little figure before his eyes
:. he can see another one, of the oil
N days, IN the old country. almost idel
\ tical-the same black hair and dimple
chin, with that same pink rose pinne
Il in the black meshes; many a man 70
I'M gets the fat. richly dressed MexIca
40 wife at his side. and goes back IN heal
to Just such girl, whether Of And
NJ lusia, of Seville, or OF Madrid. An
= seated alone in his box, the prince
nv bankers, old Franquillo. drops b
IN glass and signs; perhaps If a girl III
60 that one yonder had lived instead
passing away from him during Il
81 first poverty-stricken month OF the
ri married life, there in barcelona,
10 would not now be lone, triste ma
or without home, chick, or child-on
do the money. For though money
good, 1t doesn't always I'LL every chi
w. Of the heaItl
ey Dona Lolita, in spite OF that swe'
is shy occurrences of hers, has not
of the enect of her costume a la Espan
zee la; she rejoicec within herself, ev
10; though she is beginning TO trembl'
no wee bit, and wishes that il were I
yet time for her husband TO Kill
- bull. She sgain measures the d