Evening star., 1899-03-25

are, rule. good musicians and every
other man you meet can play either the
piano or guitar, or both. During our call
when Mrs. Salterain was at the piano she
was asked to play a certain air. and upon
saying that she did not remember Ii her
mother took her place. As she played there
was dispute as to one of the parts and
the doctor himself sat down and PLAYED il
off from memory, drifting at its close into
the ''Marseillaise."
The Handsome OrientaIes.
The Orientales, for that is what the urvl-
guayans call themselves, are noted for their
beautiful, cultured and fashionably y-dressed
women. They vie with the Portenos or
Brenos Aires women, as to beauty, and con-
slider themselves much more aristocratic and
high born. They call Montevideo the Paris
and the Madrid of South America 1t
must be confessed that they have some rea-
son for the claim. The city is one of tbs,
mtcent homes and a great many wealthy
inhabitants 1t has its fashionable four
hundred, who are as well dressed and as
Well-bred people as You will find anywhere
Ihey have fine houses and well-padded
pocket books. Many of them trace their
descent from families which came to Uru-
quay hundreds of years ago. Their possess
sions are in great estates, rented houses
ana cattle and sheep. They have their pal
aces in Montevideo, whose floors are mar
bic and whose frescoed ceilings are up
held by marble columns from Italy
Ihey nave vast one-story buildings upon
thelr estates, where they entertain like
lords, with horse for every guest during
me summer In the winter their surround
lngs are grand, but very uncomfortable
Inc houses of Montevideo are. as cold as
the white marble with which they are finish
ed The people believe artificial heat un-
heaIthy. and in this city, which is as big
as washington, and quite as cold there is
not d furnace or steam-hcating plant
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dressed in furs, with her hands in a muff
ana her feet on a hot water bottle and
gentlemen and ladies come to state dinners
IN oVercoats and fur capes.
Such families have hosts of servants
Ihey nave their coachmen and footmen,
!helr housemaids ladies' maids and sew
ing women. Men cooks are often en-
pioyed and in such cases 1t is customary to
give the COOK certain amount per day.
allow him to do the marketing and take
his wages out of his allowance Even
where he is given the money for market
Ia Ing only II Is expected that he will steal a
little every day.
The wages of servants are high Cooks
receive from s14 to SO per month. and
housemaids are paid from $40 to sis per
month. These figures are in gold, for Uru-
guayan money is worth even more than
American.
uruguayan families are large. When a
enid is married it brings its better half to
live with the old folks. and often half a
dozen families will live in one house As
lily. i''iit-
They Know How to Dress.
1t would surprise many Americans who
look upon society south of the equator as
half savage to know that there are many
Montevideon women who wear evening and
visiting dresses which cost 500 apiece and
that a few of the upper ten have single
dresses in their wardrobes for which they
nave paid from $500 to 81 600 in gold Their
best dresses come from Paris and they
nave the styles as soon as New York Our
women may also be surprised to learn that
the south American cities are among the
pest diamond markets of the world and
that at great receptions fortunes in dia-
nonds are worn. The use of Jewels is
more common in Montevideo than in either
New York Washington
rake the instance of a recent dinner here
one OF the best dressed women present was
the wife of the vice consul general of the
United States, Mrs. Thomas Howard Mr.
Howard is an American who came to Mon
teVldeo years ago and who is now one IF
the Wealtniest men of the republic. His
WIFE is an Orientale of one of the lest fam
lies At this dinner she wore a gown of
orocaded white satin trimmed with wide
drapery of point lace, which festooned the
whole skirt and its long train. Her corSage
was trimmed with a of diamond but
terfiieS, some of which were quite large
and these diamonds ran from shoulder to
shoulder. At this dinner there were other
costumes equally fine, among the most COM
mon of the ornaments being aigret plunes
fastened to the hair with elaborate diamond
pins.
Uruguayan women are of the Spanish
type, tall and well formed. The scrawny
girls are few and the average maiden
is large boned, well rounded and
plump AS the women grow older they
run to adipose tissue. and not a few
OF the elderly DANES are fat. The type
is uniform. The eyes of most of the women
are dark, but full of luster, and their COM
plexions are clear, dark and rosy. Both
young men and young women look clean
and healthy and show great animation of
face and style. The men are as careful
of their dress as the women, and those
OF the upper classes are very particular as
to just what they wear upon every 0cca-
sion. White gloves, you know. always so
with full dress. I am told that our mir
lister wore yellow ones when he was pre-
sented to the president and that the cir
cumstance was so noticed that IT formed
one of the subjects of society gossip for
some days thereafter.
Etiquette in Uruguay.
There are no cities in the world where
etiquette is Of more account than in the
South American capitals. There is in Monte
video an etiquette of the pavement. The
oriental thinks no one but boor would
allow lady to walk upon the outside of
the pavement in going along the street with
him. The inside is the place of honor. and
the lady must always have it. If two ladies
go together the younger lady always takes
the outside. If two gentlemen walk to-
gether, each vies with the other in trying
to make him take the inside A host must
always give his guest the inside, and the
man of low rank gives the man of high
rank with whom he is walking the inside
honorable path.
Girls never appear on the street without a
chaperone. If young woman goes for a
walk or to shop, she cannot do so without
her mother or aunt or servant girl is with
her. She may take a nurse girl of thir-
teen or fourteen, not because she is of any
earthly good to guard her, but as a badge
OF respectability, as a chaperone. Women
never make the first bow to the men they
meet on the street The man must take
OF his hat, or the woman cannot notice
him, and If he does not do this it will be
considered a slight by the woman Young
unmarried men and women cannot walk
along the street together, ehaperone Or 10
chaperene, and a moonlight ride of a Young
woman and young man would not only ruin
the girls reputation. but would result in
the social ostracism of both. Young men
VINO nave sisters never ask their men
friends to come to their houses and as
for young man spending an evening alone
with his lady love, such a thing IS not
heard of.