The Detroit times., 1912-01-01
FIGHTING AGAIN
II PARAGUAY WOMEN
PRAY FOR HUSBANDS
Herbert Quick Tells Story OF
Country Where One Sex
Outnumbers the Other.
COUNTRY OF MANY WARS
History of Republic Wrecked By
Conflicts Is Weirdest IN
American Literature.
BY HERBERT QUICK.

Down I'M Paraguay they are fighting
again. The army Of the reyolutionists
IS snid TO be at the door for Assam
cicn. the capital And yet one would
fhink that Paraguay had had enough
OF aghtlng. Her plains have been
drenched with blood. She has felt all
the hell there IS in war.
Paraguay has known the awful days
prophesied by Isaiah against Zion
.sThy men shall fall by the sword,
and thy mighty in the war. And
seven women shall take hold OF one
man in that day, saying We will eat
our own bread and wear our own APP
pareI Only let us be called by thy
name"
perhaps. the most dreadful thing
that can happen 70 any nation is that
one ser shall greatly eHtHumbef the
other. Paraguay Is the worlds best
proof or that great social fact. Not
"a very many years ago an American
Insurance. agent went up the Parana
river 10 Assuncion--the city before
which the sighting is now going on.
One DIV he saw looking out at him
from bic house a senorita OF ma
ture wears and that full Spanish
beauty which blooms with the TWEEN
Ties and goes to seed with the thir-
5 lies She looked more pointedly next
tire he nassed. Then she wrote him
an Invitation to call. He found that
the house was q respectable one ana
called. THE senorita asked him 10
marry her. When he seemed for some
reason reluctant she said:
IAN I not young enough? Am
not beautiful enough? Then. perhaps.
1.-THE senior will marry my sister, who
\ is younger and very beautiful. Surely,
We have waited long enough In this
! house for a husband. pray the senior
Americana TO consider our proposal
and TO marry me or my sister. We
nre good women. and rich: and our
blood goes back TO the grandees OF
SPAIN.
PARAGUAY was explored by Sebas'
i tian Cabot nearly fonr hundred years
ago. al fortress was built there in his
ffime called the Fort OF the Holy
8pirit"- Santo--and so active
WAS the spirit that possessed 1t that
The natives were reduced TO slavery.
. on this basis grew up the nation OF
PARAGUAY
$ "A dictator. named Francia, ruled
IA with 4 rod Of iron. He hated the
: church and despised marriage. and
tried all he could to debauch the
morals OF the people He forbade
braign commerce with devotion TO
exclusion OF foreign goods
When stransers came into Para.
quay Francia kept them in a sort OF
lotos eating captivity giving them
1uxuries and pleasures, and himself
frljoying their company, for he was 9
LEARNED man, was DR.. Franeia. Does
It not sound like an Arabian Nights
tafef Yet this was Paraguay.
Il Then came the regime OF the Lopez
family. when the curse Of Isaiah
came on the land. he made war or
(. Argentine and Brazil. Every man was
Obliged to fight Whole regiments
were made up of boys of IL to 10
B Women .;ere enrolled by thousands
and when they fell out OF the ranks
they were butchered 10 keep then
from joining the enemy
When Lopez marched every livinE
ANIMAL was killed. and All not enlisted
!. ia Ms army were slaughtered as enc
mies
In 1864, the population of the ma
ton was about 100000 In 1870
when the monster Lopez was defeat
ed. there lived of all Paraguayans
but $4,000 men, $4,000 children ant
+ IO7. 900 women The women ploweC
the fields. built the roads. carried thu
freight upon the boats. IL was thel
( that Paraguayan women said to al
most any man, I'VE will eat our owl
bread and wear our own apparel
only let us be called by thy name"
They begged for husbands.
II is the weirdest tale of American
history the wierdest OF al
history. And they are fighting again