The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-03-15
The street Life of Seville.


-..tfLE. SPAIN, Feb. 3, 1900 Out
.s...{ spain it is hard to think of this
.. Moorish city except as a place where
|Navs moonlight, where its inhabi-
...r- tabitually converse in the melodi-
. manner of the operate stage, and
..,-.- It's ladies, forever young, spend
l...- ives GA Juliet balconies, listening to
.,.i. 6ling the dreamy air of night with
..,. mike of guitars; a most ''nconstant
.o.,-l-. Of coquetry and murder, of signal
.t- IN windows, and cages glamour
4. uns down, and daggers unsheathed
sUi', the Serene on his rounds yells
.t}.- well, ~ to the sleeping city. Not
,..- tuding the great antiquity of the
... ATS wealth and wars and splendid
... ueuts, the world remembers it
..... as the home Of those two delight
..1ubates. Carmen and Don Juan;
..,. 'roIge Eliot's spanish Gypsy"
Heated Barber of Seville" and
Nibef heroes ana uefOlneS OF pO-
-run and the drama. Though dis
. AangeS have taken place in recent
such as trolley cars Changing past
mIsmd- year old palaces, and electric
Illuminating the narrow streets
..uelug Uut in too bold relief the
u their balconies and the crumbi-
tues of medieval Saints is
, Dunently grand opera town. You
.. costumes of the stage on every
1i imagine yourself witnessing a
4ding rehearsal. Every street is
... .ft stage scene, from the Gale de
o- IF the fashionable shops, to the
.s.- where the hustle of commerce is
.. 3D. ana the Pirates of Penzance may
.-Oat4 any of the queer river craft
.neu with slouched hats drawn over
reads or the peculiar turban- like
..- seen nowhere but in Spain, and pic
-.- ie eloaks, thrown over their shout
l1e the typical stage Williams and
ilIs. OF wear the air of Gil Bias, a
lI 1an or Trovatore. The barred
.V> are those OF the stage castle; the
ned ladies look as if Just ready to
-.r parts, and the gay short skirted
las III the streets are the dancers of
...Iet Indeed, hand organ man, or
.--e-by with any sort of musical in
mt, might extemporze ballet in
npnutes, in any Spanish street.
Oh Romance has grown trifle shy
.be gaIish light of day he still
wits abroad by moonlight i'll Seville.
.ot nat of the window at any hour of
.1I-At.-
.- throh Of the heart OF midnight,
.rar guitar lightly hummlng."
.ag floats up to the waiting maiden,
rose, It ian, OF billet doux drops
70 the adoier's feet But alas
sa lovers are not what they used
n the beautiful long ago, when
utdiaeval casas were in better re-
800 the clumbling statues had their
and Other features intact-when
painted, and Sancho Panza rode,
ue barber of Seville pursued hs bar
calling. the l0ve-lorn Don would
. lmseif beneath his pulcineas' bal
ash cloak, guitar and sombrero to
'l and scUrge himself with metal
rUs such as penirents use to-day,
noble blood gushed forth All,
at- love indeed to Span
.an- tostered on the bun fight The
dove OF a senorita would clasp her
IN eestacy and cry "Esta bueno,
NeA. Beat yourself more, and more
-llC. Now | love you. Now | am
and she ratified her window bars
MS TO get at him. To- day, the
hahn scourges, with leaden tips to
many lashes, are altogether out of
- u, except for holy nuns in the con-
rs oing nightly renances; and some
modern lovers do their musical WOO
l.AVAN5 WIN GU COu-
O+uug the expense of aband as sufficient
f love and homage.
-5 he way, / have tried to locate Fig
'he charming Barber" whose place
siness-according to the opera score,
the plaza Santo Tomos, just back
Alcazar, There is no striped pole
uow, nor any other sign of a barber
The wonder is that no enterpris-
lusorial artist of to- day should have
nght himself to turn few extra
c'des by locating in the same place.
Lire d saying, at is a waste of lather to
.aa'c az ass, originated in Spain. Here
BE iJnkeys backs are shaved in different
4gnS-such as stars and crosses and
9t's If arms, half moons, monographs,
'. through a mistaken idea of the
beautiful. Poor burro poor indeed from
ST 10 last. Small, brown and brave,
q "ays docile and Industrious, and always
'pAsea- nothing shows the Spaniards'
A4r1eter more clearly than his treatment
H finals. The meek and helpless slave
r4e family is seldom stabbed and never
GENTLY fed He is tethered anywhere,
nlu- the stones or sand, and left to shift
lmSelf in the matter of food and
hs- his owners gentlest ''get up
a- brutal blow between the eyes.