The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-24

= the proud and naughty daughter of tn
CASTLES, the rosy checked women of Ga
licia, the quiet-eyed and ruddyhuet
women of the lofty Basque country. re-
Gently celebrated by Lott, and the !ittl
women of Andalusia, who open .theil
eyes and-conquer!
Among these women the American cir
remains distinct, as of the north, Gef
centred, self guided, her code of conduc
her own, and, somehow, not recalling
the English women or the denote Scan
dinavians whose blood flows in hel
veins. In dress she 10 distinct from,
the women of the upper claes here. She
is slender, she is tall, and she effects the
high-colored silk waist the formidable
high white collar, and her hat sits diff
ferently on her head. She walks as
accustomed to so alone, to go anywhere
unquestoned. There is the light of in
tellect in her eyes; she is one who Dues
tons thinks, and is of the moderns,
most modern. She meets dignitaries of
church and state on equal terms and
dares to interrogate them. She matches
the tall young American men, clear of
hue, well groomed, direct and business
like. Youth and maid are of the same
stock; they seem not likely to plunge
into love, guitar and poetry. They
VIII pass their episode of loVemaking
discreetly, without signing like fur
mace, and will have a very clear idea of
each other before the nuptial knot is
tied. Romance with them will be dis
creetly kept in check; there are more
important questions, the future home,
how ic 10 hc moi int oiY yttl,n bo eynOH
clothes, the theatre and opera tickets
and all those things are TO come from.
And they will wed, and their children
will grow UP tall fair and keen-eyed, as
If questioning destiny, and afraid not
of the gods themselves.
The Mexican woman with the blood
of Spain, and a dash ofttimes of the
Arabian in her veins, will love. often
without wisdom, allowing the unworthy
to win her heart. She will love on de-
votedly, even If neglected, but when her
heart is at peace in marriage she will
shine, queen of home and empress of
the affections She is capable of ro-
mantle, uncalculating love, and in pow
erty she remains the same, true and
sweet and patient.
Usually it is her destiny to live out
her life in the tranquility of her semi
Moorish home, amid her flowers and her
birds and her babies, and the children
grow up adoring their mothers, wor-
shipping her into old age, and mourning
her at her death with heartfelt sor-
row. To be reigning queen of hearts is
the aspiration of the woman with Span
ieh blood. She is ardent, but not shall
L.,a - l,a Law 1.Aa,H
She has no notion of business; regards
money and money making as an affair
of men, and is often, in widowhood, ex-
plotted remorselessly. She is religious,
most devout and the ancient church is
her refuge in all the trials of life. In
her piety there is no calculation of adj
vantages to be gained by faithfulness
to church duties. Her heart is in her
religion, and you will never change her /
creed. A great home with helpful saints
a house of light and warmth and eplen-
dor, and the sisterly love, Astounding |
and unending of the Virgin-that is the \
Catholic Church to the Mexican woman. |
Her nature is warm, her ideals nobly |
ardent, her nature rich and infinitely |
delicate. The negations of Protestant
SIN, its barrenneHs, cannot attract her |
She sees not it's noble austerities; it's
calm adherence to logic she could not
understand. She belongs in the ancient
,hurch of her race, where it is all like
, great family, host of helpers,
representatives veculo oslcahoitahd
loud of witnesses, and the priest the
representative of the Most High. The
,olygamist religion are to her things
lccursed. She wants to be supreme in
Ter husbands heart.
Thus on the continent there are two
ypes of women, the northern and the
ropical. They are as remote from each
Their as they have ever have been eince
he cold north blanched the cheeks of
he blue-eyed maidens, and the warm
'outh made its women romantic lovers
1t is wholly unlikely that the intel
7ctual movement so characteristic of
he times in the United States, England |
nd France will extend into the tropics. 9
Where there is warmth ana much sun
hine, a climate disposng to the dolce
fomen are going to puzzle their bralne ,
Or an explanation OF the universe. Wo- =
1en's clubs are exotic things in these
wv ldllluueS, Only lOIGiSH women nave I
nergy enough for them, and it is doubt =
IL if a second generation of them born +
ere would be literary or investigating. +
! is one of the chief charms of these +,
nds of the, sun that ones thinking is q
OF strenuous. Magnetized by the sun, y
eople grow content with life as it is, o
5 it softly moves onward to eternity. . 7
hat nobody, by hard thinking, can find | +
1T anything really worth knowing is q
le Unborn conviction of every true child h
the tropics r
Some of the women of these lands are
)ntent to live the life that custom has /,
ade seemly and right. They may be r.
6 children, but they are lovable child 81
n, and the masculine sex is content n
it'll them as they are. II,
So, climate and race traditions are tt
ronger than foreign precepts and ex- a
nple. Many women here take pleasure T
books but in quiet way; they rare B
discuss them with any one. They 81
we their fayorite writer's Spanish and | F
'ench, almost never English or Ameri-
n, and they are content to read a | of
cd book cany times. And there is no m
tellectual movement of any force ii
nong the men. The better educated to
nong them mostly read in French, and B
low much of art, bells Iettres and sci ca