The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-14

Fonda means inn. You might as
we'll begin to learn Il little Spanish"
we need it in our business said
the man with the pipe.
Il stood in the doorway of the fonda"
continued the sister and looked across
the plaza to a little white church. /
had been wishing 10 see what it was
like inside, to find out if it had any
thing Moorish about it. The cathedral
in Ronda is partly an old Moorish
mosque, and two or three other
churches there have Moorish arches
Now is my chance thought, SO I did
as one does in Italy or France. l
stepped across to see what the church
was like. A lot of people had beer go
ing in. AS l reached the door sweet
faced, middle aged woman was enter
ing. She had a mantllla on her
head and prayer book in her hand.
She stopped in front of me and looked
at me reproachfuly.
Do you understand SPANISH she
asked, in a low. gentle voice.
little, 1 answered.
Then / must tell you, she said,
that you ought not to come to church
bareheaded. 1t is not fitting that any
woman should enter the house of God
uncovered
Il felt decidedly abashed, but 1 said
'Graclas, Sonora ana then l went back
to the hoteT'-
"Fonda!" said the Westerner.
To the fonda and upstairs to my
room and got my hat. 1t was black
hat, plain travelling hat, but it was
from a New York milliner, SO it had
style. 1 put 1t on with the reasonable
satisfaction which such a hat inspires,
and stood for a moment by my open
window to look at the April roses
growing in the orange garden below.
Then | went down the beautiful stair
Way-the fonda used to be a private
residence-and out and across to the
church again. Almost everybody who
was coming had come. One late conner
reached the door with me. She was a
lovely old lady with white hair showing
IN pretty contrast against her black
lace mantilla. She glanced at me, and
| saw Mortified expression come into
her eyes, which Were fixed upon my
hat.
" Pardon me, gentle senorita,' she
SAID, do you intend to enter the house
of God with such a French abomna
uon as that upon your head%
answered meekty that it was the
only hat had in Ronda.
Perhaps you do not know she said,
that it is not proper for a woman to
enter church with such a thing as that
upon her head She went on swiftly in
to the church, looking very stately and
sincere.
II went back to the fonda again, won
dering what would happen if she had
tried to go into Grace church with her
mantilla. In the doorway of the inn I
met Anita, the pretty chambermaid
that waited on me, and | told her of my
little adventure.
All, senorita, Ronda is but coun-
try place after all she said. 1t is
p1tltul to see the ignorance even of la
dies if they have never travelled. l have
myself been twice to Gibraltar, and
have seen many English ladies here in
the fonda. So l have seen many hats.
You see, there is not one lady's hat in
all Ronda! 1 am told that in Seville
and Granada Spanish ladies' also wear
hats, but the ladies Of Ronda have none
at all, and they cannot understand h1w
the good God can love women who wear
them, above all, in His house. I have
myself seen English women going into
their church in Gibraltar wearing hats
almost like those of their husbands and
brothers, not ladylike. hats, such as
yours; yet they were kind women. Some
of them have been here on horseback
from Gibraltar before the railroad was
finished. Now. l myself. senorita, do
not believe that the good God would
forbid you His house because of your
hat. It is very pretty, although I my
self like better our Ronda custom Of
wearing flowers in the hair in the
Streets
mo wonder. Anita. Now I under
stand why the boys in the street made
fun of my friend and me Yesterday. One
of them said Blast the sombreros, Look
at the ladies who wear, so1nbreros like
menu
"sThey were very naughty said
Anita. Your hat is not like a mans
hat, senorita, And if Won wish to % TO
mass 1t must be arranged, I will sneak
to my mistress Anita disappeared and
returned presently with the landladv's
daughter.
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