The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-07-06
I !; IN. SPAIN ? 1
Nation Has Formed Liking for
MN NJ Outdoor Sports. s VI:
War Started the Movement and Ito
" Popularity Does Not Seem to "a
h II 5 \ Have Greatly Abated With :.;r II
y H u sts3 Advent Of Peace. g%&3l,s,

353g While the war was absorbing the at.
tention of the English, sport in gem
eral and polo and horse racing in par
ticular took refuge In Spain under the
/ protection Of King Alfonso. ss It seems
that the coming Of peace and the re-
turn Of the sport to England and
France has not found the Spaniards
willing to let go of their new outdoor
Accomplishments. Rather they have
gone In for more>of them. A writer In
the London Daily Mail, acting as cor
4 respondent in Madrid; says: 5@SS s ':@,z%
The duenna is, doomed. Also the
semi-oriental system she represented.
5$$S ..'The death warrant was signed
when the senoritas Of Madrid took to
playing tennis and golf, to skiing In
the Sierra and to travelling in, a side
= car. III IN VII Xxx 5fl WI. :@4 ~ }%s, &&
b ."'Hence also the collapse of the car
{ nival as it used to be. 1t is an anti
I Nuated survival of the days when lad
could meet lass without the duenna at
4 only one short season In the year, and
the mask was fondly supposed to con-
ceal identity. e. 4s$-.> i nv .e9a
I '':In addition to taking UP more and
more all the sports familiar elsewhere,
the Madrilene ladies have one Of their
own; sort of racquets played in a
jeu-de-paume (pelota) court, but
without the basketwork cestus They
use tennis rackets and the courts are
]. always full. 50 - r 'a2*a2 r. 80 ''>~' !:
455 Lately they have begun to steer
Z their own CATS, too, though that sport
lis not encouraged for them by the
reckless / speeds permitted in big
Spanish cities. (. a. r," - 49,.
r.. "A glance at any leading Madrid pa
per will show whittier young male
I Spain is tending Not only. are golf
\ courses arising outside all Of the resi-
dental cities, but other exotlcs like
polo are increasingly popular with the
J gilt-edged youth. Madrid, Barcelona
and other centers hum with motor
traffic, and big sidecar outfits are all
( over the place
eT%- I'm one thing young Spain appears
not to be- changing e modesty of
her daughters and the a. seriousness
of her sons. A few days ago I made
q round Of all the amusement places
!. in Seville, beginning: with sort Of
musical costume play (the very tune
full Song Of <Forgetfulness) at a thea
, ter at 5 80 p. nj. and ending at 1 a.
/ n. in q workman's dance hall. The
! play was described as 'Vermouth,' but
the refreshments sold were chocolate
\ and-cold water! k 49,, .y.~ :. -. IL
= a : after dinner II went to. popular
j. music hall where Spanish dances are
,, exhibited, then to a cheaper hall Zen
i trance fee about 5 cents), and finally
to the dance hall. The only alcoholic
refreshment saw consumed was a
glass which ordered myself in order
to see If one. could get it at all. I have
! wandered about the = workingmen'
! quarters Of Madrid, Barcelona and Sc
vile, and at night about the Albaicin
OF Granada, but i have yet to see a
sssdrunben man. still less an intoxicated
4: woman. - Il. =, .-... ..
=. ~ Il know that a great deal Of wine
ds consumed on occasions, such as bap-
I tisms, but the hotel crawl is as little
AN amusement of young Spain as ia
the beer-soaking which characterized
prewar Germany" 4
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