Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-02-13
ONE OF THE
GIRLS
By ELIZABETH HOPKINS
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What a gorgeous ring, Marion. Is
that the ring?"
oh, tell US all about it,"
Marion Winthrop had Just returned
from Florida and some of her girl
friends had come in to hear all about
her adventures. She had written en-.
Enthusiastically of an Englishman she
had met at Palm Beach.
Nell Turner told us a lot about
Jack and his yacht, and said there
was something dreadfully romantic
she did not dare to tell; but would
leave 1t for you when you came home"
said Amy Wallace.
Well" began Marion, you know
after that dreadful siege Of typhoid.
they shipped me off to Florida While
at the Windsor. in Jacksonville, met
some lovely people who were going
way down to the jumping of place to
rough 1t for several weeks. They in
sisted that 1t was Just the thing I
needed; so l decided to go.
we arrived at our destination. a
beautiful little island, one night about
nine o'clock. On it, we're a lighthouse.
the assistants house, quarantine sta
ton and pilots shanties. There were
three little huts, in which we set up
housekeeping.
The quarantine physician was rath-
or a nice fellow and he made 1t very
pleasant for us. There were a number
OF foreign vessels in port, receiving
their cargoes, and through DR.. Brown
We were invited to dine aboard a
Spanish ship. / had the seat of honor.
next the captain.
You know the extent of my knowl-
edge of Spanish, but l managed to
squeeze out that 1t was mucho calor.
and asked some idiotic questions about
certain phrases and sentences, which
completely won the captains heart.
he told me about the Spanish fishing
village on little island close by. and
suggested that DR.. Brown take us over.
as 1t was very picturesque. Accord
ingly, the doctor and two of the pilots
took US to Spanishtown a few davs
later. 1t was tucked away out of
sight, and 1t was only after wormine
our way between the islands, that it
lay before us in all its glory"
"oh, wasn't it romantic" cried
Amy
We'll, no. Naked babies never I'M
pressed me as being particularly ro-
mantle; in fact, 1t was quite embar-
RAISING. The beach was thick with
them and they rolled around in the
sand with the pigs. chickens, dogs and
goats. The women were fat, greasy
and corsetiess. Some people rave
over the Spanish senoritas, but they
never look clean to me, and they ge.
so coarse and fat as they grow older.
The men were about TIE color of the
big cigars they smoked, with fierce
and rings in their ears;
their teeth were very white against
their dark skin and reminded me of
the pictures of White Fang for they
looked ready to snap at the slightest
The village consisted of a dozen or
more palmetto houses. 1t was quaint
and rather pretty, as the palmetto
leaves were bleached to a golden color.
We were escorted to the throne room,
80 to speak. where a dreadful old WON
an Sonora Gonzalez. held sway. We
were presented to her daughters, Car
lotta, a fat, heavy-lidded girl with a
baby boy on her arm, and Cita, several
years her Junior. Manuel Sanchez.
one of the beaux of the village was
very attentive to Carlotta and looked
like a thunder cloud when DR.. Brown
spoke to her. wondered II CarIotta's
husband was Jealous of Manuel.
They served aguendente, a sort of
liquid IRE, in smudgy-looking glasses.
took swallow for politeness' sake
and nearly choked to death. Carlotta
and Manuel danced, Carlotta using
and her mother playing a
guitar. The music was very pretty,
but the dancing rather disgusting.
ut was so hot and stuffy in the
house and the air was filled with the
odor OF spoiled fish and old oyster
shells, so slipped out for a breath of
fresh air. DR.. Brown followed me, and
we walked down to the beach, Car
Iotta's little boy toddling after us,
hanging to the doctors hand.
What's your name, Minor asked.
George he replied, with a funny
little foreign accent.
Named for the Senior Doctor?' 1
inquired, laughingly.
81, senorita,' very gravely,
Then he burst into a perfect tor
rent of baby talk, which I could not
follow. but sat up suddenly for I had
made discovery.
How queer!' exclaimed. He is
he perfect image of you. doctor, even
10 the ears
THE doctor flushed hotly, and gave
he youngster push which sent him