Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-22

chief glory, makes shampoo the
excuse for q street parade, in the
smaller cities. The poorer girl is
usually hatless, and dresses simply
because she cannot afford the f1amboy-
ant colors and the rich, or even
sometimes the tinselly and tawdry
materials she would like to wear.
Among the wealthier sort the Spanish
mantillas and delicate laces are Civ
ing ground to the modes Of Paris
though every woman in the land es-
chews quiet colors when she IAN and
delights in rivaling the peacock, the
rainbow and the iris.
OF course, many Of the girls are
sent to school in foreign lands
whether to France, the Latin-Ameri-
can earthly paradise, or to London, or
to the United States. If she stays at
home she Is not likely to go beyond
a rudimentary appreciation of the
three RS, a smattering Of conversa-
ton book French, and q superficial
acquaintance with lightweight COM
position written for the pianoforte.
She may know a little about geogra-
ply; she freqeuntly Is an adapt at
needlework. II she should see the
field games at Vassar or the other
American women's colleges with their
"sprints" and baseball throwing and
jumping, her beautiful dark eyes
would open wide in wonderment.
The native Indian women, most of
them, need to be led "up from slav-
cry" social, moral, political. Early
marriages are fortunately the rule,
there being no such inhabitation Of
remarriage as that which makes pitt
full the lot Of the child-widows Of
India. The church is exerting its in
fiuence to correct the deplorable
marital promiscuity. The peasant
woman cannot hope to maintain her
good looks in the unceasing toll
that is her lot. At 80 she Is old and
shriveled, in many cases. She Is
sufferer from the drink evil, for the
curse Of the country Is pulque. This
is the cheap and popular decoction OF
the century plant, and four train
loads of the vile stuff are brought In
to the capital every morning. Clean
illness is nowhere nor godliness IN
Mexico, for whereas at least the form
of religion Is prevalent, the custom OF
bathing is chiefly honored in the non
observance outside Of the tropical
regions where water Is plentiful.
Mexico needs plumbing and plumbers
No description of the existence OF
the Mexican woman would be COM
plete that omitted reference to her
spiritual life. The church peculiarly
depends upon her influence in Mex
leo, since the men as a rule are con-
temptuous Of religious observances.
The civil wedding is followed by the
church ceremony, and women are
scrupulous in the performance OF de-
votional rites. The mood Of mystic
exaltation produced Is not likely to
pTOceeu dltcTWdIu W WI Nd u pAe~
teal philanthropy-for the Mexi iAn
woman does not like self-assertion in
any direction. She can, Of course,
be an Amazon when aroused to fury,
but that Is not her nature. Her
whole existence is calculated to rep
resent the side Of life that Is summed
up in the Spanish phrase that Is ever
on her lips-"muy sympatica"-
"very sympathetic" She is not am
bilious, except for her pride in her
son and her desire to keep her hus-
bands undivided affection. Would
not Mexico be in even a worse plight
than at present, II it were not for the
sedative restraining influence Of the
senoras and senoritas?-Philadel-
phia Ledger.