Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-13
DEMURE Sc ORITA
NOT TIMID ANY M RE
Latin Women Haven't Asked for
Vote, but Are a Power in
Public Affairs.

Own up, exnctly what mental picture
have You If the women 0f Chile In com
mon with Spain and Mxico and the rest
of South America, Chile probably Occu-
pies corner of your minds a. a land of
dusk senoritas IN lace mantllas, sitting
dangerously At upper windows bstcn-
lug to guitars and occasionally throwing
red roses 70 gallants below OF course,
they never get ont for a promenade with
out their mothers or chapcrons, and the
dragon Of women's rights has not vet
reared rs head The scnoritas Of the
higher classes spend their time dancing
and using their eyes to firty advantage,
and those ~ the lower classes doubt
less, are glad To act as nurses and ador-
ing maids.
Well, # that 'R your mental photo
graph, wipe il out please, take fresh
plate, and snap
oh. yes, women IN Chile arr thinking
of their rights laughs sonora Rebecca
Sanfuentos de Edwards daughter of the
President y Chile, and wife of the Chill
can Consui-C5enersl in the United states
who has just arrived ~ the Hotel Ma
rie-Ant0inettr with her husband They
do not want the vote yet, but thcv are
not 70 tinid n quiet ~ they used 10 be-
Twelve years ago when left Chile, ~
girl could take ], promenade without her
mother. Never No glrl could 20 m Z
party with young man without chaper-
on Now. my friends write / r. ali differ
ent Two and three giri friends 20 waking
nv themselves and they uve dinners
where there are none by young men and
1ornani Surely times ave changing.
Sonora Edwards left Chic, as she
says, 10 years ago 70 travel with her
husband through England, Belgium
France, Germany and countries To whose
Chilean legations he was attached at
different times Senor and Sonora Ed
wards are stopping n New York prepara-
tory 70 . vlsit TO Chile, from where Senior
Edwards Is coming back IS consul-general
here.
sonora Edwards was in Belgium with
her husband when the war broke out
Her two children were born IN Paris,
when trampIng poIius and fieeIrg rein-
gees. and even the Big Bertha .-,rr no
novelties. She has lived 10 many ot the
biggest and most beautiful cities II the
world, 40 We have a eonnolaseur state
rnent that New York y lovely As
for American women, they are wonder
full and 50 independent. This the
sonora said after she had pleaded through
her husband that she had never been IN
terviewed wouldI know what 70 say
/ If she were and besides couIdn say 1t Il
she did, She sad she had forgotten ail
the English she learned at school IN Chile.
i but her English. spoken with . French
] accent, proved more than adequate To
i the occasion.
! Next "a Chile. she said. II Ike
America. ami you can say love New
York MANY South Americans prefer
! the States 10 Europe, and ! thInk many
i people vii soon come here 70 trsvei
rather than abroad The shops n Ner
York are beautiful. And il : - con-
Portable here. Why, n England the 4par.-
uenfs are 50 hard 70 hest, Tnev tre So
cd, and there is often no not water .oC
+ the bath Everything Is ple&ASaa: And
smooth here
Even IN France the old-tmc apart
mentS have no convenience. In ale
i ne weli-to-do hye ii big houses Hta
many rooms. built around tae piazza or
ward Nv friends Nslte me. 2oWeE er
i that new houses ara beng bulit GA he
French style with apartments upstairs
+ and a concierge downstairs
The sonora knows Ut about Lhe troubles
Of living ii New York, bQt even the
servant problem doesn scare ber. Not
/ after her residence Ii England during The
! last year Of the wa- when all the girls we're
IN munltion factories AMI crest ladies
+ had to DO part Of Their houSewOrk.
In Chile she remarked, we still
have what YOU cail family servants We
/ call them 'ore484s meaning created n
the house. because they have been with 3
family long tune We have TWO ot
them In MY home but. &. course, they
are becoming rarcr and Tarcy. CrFlS arr
studying typeYrltlng and shorthand and
/ dressmaking in the schools Of Chile, x,
we'll as French and English, which al
school children study there, and fewer
care 70 be maids, but they are stlll not
I SO hard 70 Get ss here or IN England.
Chilean women are not 50 indepeud-
! ent as American women, not Vet. But
/ thev an waking up. We have three clubs
/ ia Cillle now only for women, and they
/! talk politics and affairs. They have NOT
organized to demand the vote. Not yet.
| But il is III the air
Il believe women should express their
/ opinions" the sonora went on iuClcially
by the vote if necessary. But | do not
/ ike 20 think Of women IN the government
/ On no. Women should take care Of their
/ children and help their husbands They
can help their husbands careers more by
keeping a fine house and mlngliug with
his friends than BY politics Ny mother
had no vote, nor government position
but my father owes his political position
| is President 70 her. She helped MIN IN the
best way a woman can, by being q cUrdia
hostess and giving him advice and plan
ning with ham. And now she Is greatly
| esteemed in pohcitcal circles in Chile
Most Chilean women get married
Very, very few do not. Once, when they
were married, they would give up prettS
clothes and parties and just live for then
husbands aud children. But that Is alsl
| no moIe.