The Republican journal., 1899-03-23
CUBAN WOMEN.

d., some Nntaple Examples oi Uehus'
,-arrrspendence of The Journal
....,-. Feb. 3, 1899 The author
..ent well- known book, Cuba V
who decl ared that the women
afe tit only to tlirt, lie in ham
,nd fan themselves, has evidently
,4r, Unfortunate in his choice of &C
.nfss Impartial people who know
.r.mtn oil the better class will
..dfg that they are among the
.veaearted, simple and domestic
...-.. iu The world, devoted to their
-.. .rI heir religion, and adoring their
,s and their children; withal
Hlrersity and often enduring
ath more fortitude than the
...l Thousands have lost every
.. ros+essed in the long struggle
.- husbands, sops and daugh-
..l~. urothers, friends and for
...... .t l away. They have looked
..-.. .1locausts which consumed
... .Ol uomes and plantations, but
... Instances the bodies of their loved
... list Us fuel to the flames
,.-- ...- bad their babies torn from
nr butchered, and seen their
'Hels worse than murdered;
.... 0eir patriotism that if the war
-.. epedted in order to free their
l here would be no faltering
women. 1t is the history of
hat the females are til bit
....r n, the first to urge force of
gudence would dictate longer
..-,....- aud the last to give up the
.I .tter the Ratchet is buried.
--r. 70 -Ae war, in every Cuban home
r-iously set aside G ut of each
.5.- vance for household expenses,
.- u he field; and after all their
.. ,s 4lue many Cuban ladies sold
ee-. and even their dresses, in
re food and medicines for the
- t Connected with the long
e.- ua pathetic and stirring Incl
..u lu- number in which women
s- --e eading role.
utle there was Rosa Herman
Pc. tistobal, the young and beau
Doctor Hernandez. They had
h. ei less than a year when the
u. lled upon to organize band
he insurgent army. Feeling
..a le .rIonged to his girl wife, who
7s .u.. r0 become mother, he told
.1 .l. wauld DO as she willed in the
-5HY. Nuan-like, she hesitated at
s.. a- of the danger to her be-
tleu through her tears babe
Id week he had raised half
@ men), and as they marched
mst1bal, they passed the house
~ hernandez lay fainting and
.- 5S The Queen of Cuba. "
j had been gone but a short
troop of Spaniards under
'- leIlos took possession ct the
."- ot The heutenants rode his
"= .ae hernandez parlor and sub
wife of The rebel to threats and
l.uts That night, accompanied
t0r. ~ servant, she set out on mule
u ler husband. After riding
Trough the painless hills and
instant danger of banditti and
-~ iIas, She finally found him.
l.ei her baby was born in camp,
Dther was only seventeen) and
vas christhened Guerra, "
word for war. l am happy to
H un further harm befell the
rl9ugh of course many hard
rAe endured. The family are
-'9 If A@e in san Cristobal, and Guerra
A-"e hernandez, the war baby"
-'v youngster three years old.
many women went to the field
.AA'RdjNlS anu ldiutIS, lOT ll1t
Election, fearing nothing so
-' Ike innumerable crimes COM
1 their sex at home, and hun
sWes were born in camp and ON
s. While misrule prevailed
the island, soldiers and high
Nesting all the country roads,
3n'ations and perpetrating all
..le l 45locities upon the defenceless,
man was safe, whatever her
t4o social standing. There were
|' .-.1bIe cases of delicate, high bred
's p-usformed by their wrongs into
l- lures, who afterwards fought
- shoulder with the men, led
'A iads and applied the torch in y
-'a1l Places. Many of them now sleep
unmarked graves on desolate skirmish-
others died far sadder deaths,
l sonment, disease or starvation
4r'1"ry of one of these poor creatures
ue forever. ] saw her in Los
labana's reconcentrado pen of
dorors. She was young, prob
d''f twenty, and must have been
beautiful short time before
-Aaciated face already wore the
aslesty of death and only a slight
nf the breast showed that life
el Lying all around were what
'e heaps Of rags, hundreds of
fl human being, young Or old,
cad. Such a slght. All We're