The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-17

cle masterpieces are exposed when
they bend over, on account of a wide
gap between coat and trousers, and
the same at the knees. They do this
'purposely, to prevent perspiration,
which is the most dangerous thing
that can happen to a man in the Arc
tic regions. the moisture Immediately
forming into ice and freezing that por-
ton of the body that is damp. The
Eskimos are so full of blubber that
the cold does not effect them much
in the brief intervals when their
clothes fail to meet. The Peary party
prevent perspiring by divesting them
selves OF unnecessary garments as the
climate changes, or as they become
heated in following the sleds. Mrs
Peary has lived three years and a half
In the Arctic regions and says that
never for moment did she suffer from
the cold. She said: Sometimes 1 long
ed for home, especially during the hol-
iday season. But the time never hung
heavily. I had my little daughter to
take care of, and to instruct, for I
appointed myself her school mistress"
Mrs Peary is the author of two works
on the Arctic regions. Her first, MY
Arctic Journal" was a financial sue
cess that made considerable improve
ment in the family fortunes. She was
the first white woman to go so far
into the frozen Land of Mystery, and
the publishers paid her wonderfully
well for the manuscript. Her recent
work. The Snow Baby" has not done
so well, the sayings and doings of the
small Ah-ni-ghi being naturally of
more interest to the fond mother than
to the world at large.
Another interesting woman. though
of altogether different type, is Sonora
de Quesada, wife of the first minister
from the Republic of Cuba. She is a
young woman, a typical Guiana, so
far as looks" are concerned, but by
no means beautiful. All her life has
been spent in this country, except the
nrst half year of it. Born in Cuba,
or Cuban parents, the youngest of
eight brothers and sisters, the family
were obliged to leave their native ISL
and for being on the wrong side of
political affairs and fled to New York
There all died, except the father and
youngest daughter, who is now Mrs
Quesada. She has two children-a
pretty black-eyed girl of Z, bright and
talkative, who speaks equally we'll in
Spanish, French and English; and
Gonzalita, little Gonzalo," the faith
er's name, who is just years old,
and beginning to jabber English and
Spanish with impartiality, as occasion
requires. A handsome house has been
taken for the Cuban legation, and the
Quesadas will move into it early in
the fall. 1 asked Mrs. Quesada what
she thought was the most marked diff
ference between American and Cuban
women, and without an instant's hes
itation she replied: "Oh, the indie
pendence of the American women. I'm
til very recently, you know, Cuban la
dies never went on the streets unless
accompanied by a maid, and the young
ladies had always a chaperon. But
now that we are republic, the women
are becoming more like Americans, and
while a lady will never go alone on
the streets, two ladies can go shop
ping together"
After visiting Mrs. Quesada, at the
suburban inn where the family have
been stopping, the next call was nat
urally paid to Sonora Degetau wife of
the first delegate to Congress from
the Count of Santa Lucia, and was
married only last March, in Omaha.
She is Spanish, of the pure blood of
the old grandees-a beautiful and ac-
cOmplished young woman, who shares
in all her scholarly husbands ambi-
lions. Their courtship had in it more
than the average tinge of romance
which characterizes Cupid's doings in
Spain. They met in Madrid, where
FREDERICK Degetau was deputy to the
CorteZ from Porto Rico. 1t was a sort
of Montagu and Capulet case, she being
the daughter of a staunch monarch
list and he an ardent and fiery repub-
lican. Happily the Romeo and Juliet
method is long out of fashion; the
magic wand of love levelled all bar
riers and the Spanish senorita of no
BILE birth, educated from her cradle
to beliefs in the divine right of kings
and hereditary rule rather than popular
sovereignty, became suddenly convert
ed to opinions that shocked her rela-
tives and closed the doors of Alfonso's
court in her face. She came to Amer
lea about year and a half ago, and
until her marriage resided in Omaha,
where she has friends. She is now en-
thusias tically American, with broad
and liberal ideas, fond of this country
and its institutions and proud of the
fact that she is now an Porto-Rican-
American. She is a fluent writer,
speaks several languages, including
perfect English, and is an artist of
marked ability. When she left her
childhood home in Madrid she brought
with her some of her own copies of
the great masters in the national gal
leries in that city, which now grace
the cozy little home of the Degetaus,
on ashionable P street, in this city
She is also an accomplished musician,
and shares with her husband his great
interest in philanthropic work.