The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-15

Who would II AIRY a Mexican girl lie
knew quite well enough that it was a
great sin against common sense, which
carried it's own sure punishment. Eut he
married Mexican: end the best that can
be said ior him after this is chat when
the punishment came he took it like
man, and no one not even his wife her
self, ever heard him complain. He had
shaken the dice himself, and he abode by
thr throw.
She pretty, he was lonely-at lea st
he thought, then, that he was, but later
on he discovered what real loneliness is.
the loneliness a deux- To be sure there
We're American girls in the town, but they
were totally imposs his. and. whatever
else was to be said of Candalaria Sou
beta, at least she was uncommonly well
born Race was in every feature OF her
pretty little face.
Dorsey had always cherished unmiti-
gated contempt for the Mexican way Of
making love. Candalaria had not. So
Dorsey made love in the Mexican way
and TIC the uttermost In his time he had
scoffed at youths who would go to the
opera and never look once at the stage,
In order that they might nearly cut their
necKs off on their high collars. twisting
their heads around to gaze at a novia
seated in her parents box. He did not
now. He was fiechando. a tribute to mis-
lady. which was expected OF him. Eie
had to practice it everywhere. in the
plaza, in the cathedral in the portaicS.
He had to stand on the sidewalk and talk
II her through The gratnGs Of a window,
or. worse vet. up to her balcony All the
broke him to the acceptance of thai. 1t
was hacienda fui so. and Il custom of The
land. Dorsey oPinea at first tfat 1t was q
darn-fcol costuinbre, but ,:ardalaria dld
not understand. She explained that he
must see her that way or not at all.
But I called at your house" he OBJ
5ected. before we were engaged
ut is because we are engaged said
Candalaria, that you may not call now"
A wit has observed that when the ire
sistibIe meets the immovable, if the inn
movable he woman, the Irresistible re-
treth from business. But only one who
has observed Mexican woman and her
ways can get the full force of that. Dor
sey relinqushed his Anslo-Saxon preiu-
GiceS against advertising sentiments and
affections to an unfeeling world. He made
love through the Eratings and by twine-
graph for the passers-hy to see.
Canralaria went upon the principle that
experience has taught the woman of her
people, and, believing that it was well to
get quite all she could in the way of de-
votion out of a man while he WAS yet her
novio, since none would he forthcoming
from husband she put Dorsey through
the PAGES very thoroughly. She Quarreied
with Kim for other purpose than to
make him for her favor ana eat hum
BILE pie. She sweetness itself one
moment, and abomiuable the next. She
broke the engagement half dozen times.
Dorsey was not q simll"ton. He had
more than ordinary ability and good
sense. With an American girl for a sweet
heart he would have put up with no nom
sense at all. But he was putty in Canda-
1aria's little hands If YOU doubt the con-
sistency of that, just go to Mexico and
watch a similar case for awhile.
1t was, however, after the Senorfta
SoUbieta had condcscended from the
glory of her high estate to wed n mere
GrinGo. and had become the Sonora Dor
sey, that Dorsey's real pleasures began.
TO start with he found that he had a
family made to his hand. The sisters
and the cousins and the aunts of pima
tho 70 IN
The came singly, like the animals two by
two. in knots and groups. They We're
without end. All day long they sat about
the Patio of the little house where he
had hoped to have Candalaria to him
self. crouched upon low coWhIde-and~
wicker chairs, wrapped in black shawls,
chattering. Sigglng. gosstping.
Dorsey had an unhealthy feeling that
1t was very like harem. But they had
to be treated with respect. They We're
of his wifes family. and it was a family
that was little less sacred in the land.
Her male relatives came, too. Dorsey
loathed them-worse, even. than he did
the females of the tribe. Gle called them
that his innost self3 They Were as
irreproachable and immaculate in APP
pearance the females We're siovenly.
But if they were good for any practical
thing Dorsey had yet to discover it. 1t
annoyed him to know that they We're
disporting themselves in elegant leisure
about his house, drinking copas of his
brandy and good wine, while he was at
the office toiifug for 81 modest livelihood.
And the worst of it was that he might
not even indulge in q thorough-going
contempt for them. They We're much
better educated than he was and not one
of them but had two three languages
and accomplishments. Dorsey himself
had been developed along other lines.
and he was perfectly well aware that
they thought him material and crude.
Now, just. as Dorsey was in danger of
doing something rash and asserting him
self, the way out of it all was opened to
him. II was the chance of his life He
knew it was, the one knocking of fortune
at his door. Dorsey was in the railroad
and the railroad was. of course, an
American affair. He had taken the place
of native youth who had notion of
letting business interfere with the seri-
Gus matter OF pelando pavo-otherwfse
parading beneath his sweetheart's bal
cony. The place was a good enough one,
but ii offered no prospects. That which
he afar off did, There a
great man at the head of things in the
railway. who had had his eye Dorsey
for some time. He wrote, ut this juno
ture. that he going down to the
town where Dorsey was to have a look
and change, and at billet i'll the City
OF Mexico. Dorsey knew, very well,
what the billet would probably be. 1t
required other qualities besides business
ability-soCial Qualities the advertise
meuts say. 1t meant making ones self
good deal. And it was a very desirab BILE
thing.
The heart of Dorsey was filed with jo"
So far as he knew there were not more
family in the City of Mexico. And the
city was large and smopOlitan and
alive. There was such Il thing as a flu
ture there. He dreamed rosy dreams.