The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-26

~ liners. respect for our eldcrs and
saying It Of us soon. We may not
consider ourselves eXempt from ali
hI nee t,ss.. to be civil. at least much
producing nation of vulgarian rs at all 4
We should be tho finest floweI 81
Anslo,SaXon civilization, for we have
every opportunity 10 become and re-
main so. living rs We do under Chris
tian rule on this richly blessed, OK
lensiyc continent in peace. prosperity
ana freedom.
Mexican Women.
One of the magazines sen, me 10 Cuba
Just before the sinking OF the Maine
because knew both nations and both
languages. | was never moro interest
cd ana amused than By the contrast
they presented TO each other. The COM
mercial American was there measuring
with his eve the tropical lumber csti-
m ma What proper cnltiyatlon would
cane. sugar, pincapples, cocoanut,
bananas; inspeectinE tic harbor. which
ut flood tide has only n rise OF cigh-
years. badly needed the Caribbean
canal (and still needs ~. on which he
was busly "nguring" day after day.
who reflect the least credit on our
country--awfully rich and still! more
awfully vulgar: awfully poor. too and
equally vulgar They filled the hote,
belonged 10 them; bought extensively
IT. not wisely, at the shops: ridiculed
fed them with all their own charm
ing refinement and sense Of humor
some Of the young women stalkcd ur
to tho hotel desk at the ''Inglaterra'
and registered with fine masculine
boldness and independence others 20,
into linen busters and on bicyclea
the headauarteTs and private residence
OF General Blanco and his staff The
sentinel, from sheer engagement aud
i Il a ,1 them never had
panied by any man or any married
woman. they proceeded to roam at Will
an over the palace. They literally cN-
houscmaids' closets, pumped them
selves down in the sala. pulled ND tho
Spanish, formal row Of chairs around
j the room to suit themselves, pcne-
trated to General Blanco's bedroom
and dressing room. actually, and were
doing over their backhair with his
toilet apparatus, washing their hands
and BRUSHING off their busters and
| Curacao and Chartreusc when discov-
cred by a scandalized young secretary.
who sternly but politely escorted them
out Of the bniiding and instrnetad the
vas very angry. IIo was one of the
| punctilous grandees Of Spain The
affair leaked out and got all over lia-
vana,, The returning tourists declared
they had had "a bully time" "the time
of their lives" and that the palace
was perfectly grand" One Of them
! cretcd souvenir Il large unset garnet:
another said ''she had swilsed the gen
erals toothbrush; third had walked
perfectly unabashed and in high spir-
its But the tinl!d little Cuban lady
who always sat behind the big screen
| in the sala, when there Mt all, think
ing me a Frenchwonlan,. because had
been talking to some friends In that
tongue. expressed herself fully in :he
mater skull n Of 81 Fransa!" Cher
icanos will no men, in spite OF Cod
Just look at them and hear thein
What would their. mothers. their hus-
| could sec theln.' She called them tho
Spanish equivalent for "a hold-faced
pit" she rolled her beautiful soft eyes
said Gould they not at least bring
one old family servant or duenna to
shield them from this terrible pub
If they have been Obliged by duty to
come so far from home! Never,
never shall l understand the, Amcri-
per rs in rank--hutto me all seem like
boys dressed IN in girls clothes! !
hone DO not sin sgai n = ch Ait; n
| What women have not seen at this
| hotel in the last five years! Without
/ a. serapa, without nantil!a. without
| GLOVES. without silence and averted
! looks before cabelleros: never going to
| mass walking all over this town
I (Cuban women never walk around the
| cornerj. penetrating even to the pris-
| ons; (Cuban women havo no mis-
sions'--only charity); calling IFS bar
! barians.' SO conducting themselves;
! letting our sailors and enlisted mon
1 wf.I, fJ,ap, 10 he flirt. the Eng
! isl, say; driving in Tho Prado bare :
hcadcd, without duenna II YOU vii!
believe me, eating meat every Friday
| IN the year and wearing low gowns
| 10 the table d'hotc,r Her unaffected
horror OF the species her appeal to the
! skull OF st: l'rancis were so delicious
und .Ia)1apGcallc as ue-Wind madame