The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-14
ILLEGITIAIACY IN MEXICO.
A Social State of Things on which
Public Opinion Seems to Be Silent

A Social State of Things on Which,
Public Opinion Seems to BE Silent.
City of Mexico. March 2O.-The hummer
of illegitimate children in Mexico is very
great No one who has not lived in the
country for many years can form a true
idea of the real state of affairs. The warm
est friends of the republic must admit
this.
Public opinion seems to be silent on this
subject. Fathers countenance a state of
affairs which it takes time fully to grasp.
1t is not an uncommon thing for a young
couple to marry with great pomp and dis
play, the bride aware that she will have
the care of a certain number of iegitimos
whom her young husband, by acknowl-
edging, has placed in a position to expect
a home with them, and at his death to in
herit a certain share in his property. If
there Is anything not to be condemned in
these arrangements it is the way in which
the stepmother usually fulfill such OBJ
legations. There is no visible blight on the
lives of the subjects as rule and there
seems, as a general thing, none actually.
Consequently, there is a very large num-
Der of families not free from this faint.
as considered elsewhere.
One of the republics first citizens has
wife and children for whom everything
that money, kindness and amiability can
do is done. The pet of the father, the
apple of his eye, is none of them but
beautiful girl who adores her father and
loves her stepmother, brothers and sis
ters All the world about them knows
she has inherited the face and figure of
a beautiful Indian mother on the coast
r1h N a h 10
convent. A school mate says Her
father came to see her every day during
the wear we were at school, and she wor-
shipped him. She is still very young.
Though unhappily married, her sorrows
have only drawn more heavily on her
fathers tenderess. That she is una ilegi-
TINA has not affected her social position.
one of the most brilliantly educated
women OF the republic, one who has ira
yelled and sojurned in Scotland England,
France. Spain, Greece and Russia, and
vas not a great many years ago, one of
the proudest and most beautiful girls in
her home city, found herself after mar
rage to be una ilegitima. A lawsuit, by
which a brothers wife strove to regain
certain property for her children, revealed
| the secrct TO her. II was a crushing blow
! 10 the woman to find the truth in what she
had al first scorned as a Jealous insinua-
lion. she ndu never hilOWl duSHt Dul the
| tan6erest love and care from her father ;
her mother she had never seen, but with
the lively imagination Of a girl surround
ID by wealth and all things beautiful in
fre land OF sunshine. she had visions Of a
falryliko being al goodness and loneliness
| Tks suit was decided in her favor, for she
| Ma been acknowi edged by her father. He
aal trsptcd hsr as his own; she could not
boo Gcharr'd from inheriting her share Of
1,s property as lawful child.
Err lather was a very wealthy man.
-ubitcrld by the discovery OF the secret
5f her BIRTH. she lives with her family on
one OF their magnificent haciendas. Ropes
= pearls. rare old laccs gitieriug dia-
ronds are hers. but not happiness. Too
sell Cha klows that 10 any other than an
.ha3.iart of The Land Of Manana. and TO
enc %: those she Is one 10 be avoided.
rra, deere arc families free from such
ekuawlelgsd incumbrances no ore doubts.
The eject OF tbq. eAisiing ftate Of things
may be- judged by any observer