The Washington times., 1922-09-13
CHILEAN Mates
WON 7 BEHAVE,
CLAIMS AUTHOR
Nice and Polite, But Don't Stay
Home Much, Says Sonora
de Leon.
BY WILLENE TAYLOR,
Cosmopolitan News Service.


NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-Chilean
husbands won't behave. Chilean
wiyes-75 per cent of them-are
"nad" about II, and seek a divorce
law so they can be rid of their mus
tached. slick tongued. romancing
''hombres diablos." So says one of
Chile's best known women. Sonora
Esmeralda Zenteno de Leon. novelist
and newspaper writer, who has just
arrived in America on commission of
the Chilean government.
Husbands in Chile! They are the
incest, most polite husbands-in
their own homes. But-they don't
stay there much-they keep their
wives at home and run around with
ohter women. The poor senoras-
they stand 1t for years-but ah,
American women set a great exam.
ple of freedom-and now, they want
freedom, too. They haven't been
able to do anything, but II our di.
yorce bill passes Congress. then
they'll have power" Sonora de Leon
said today.
Devil Husbands"
Devil husbands" the novelist said
the women called them. "hombres
diablos," but they don't mean a real
devil; they mean a mischieVous fell
low. Chilean women are still too
submissive to call their husbands
devils" seriously, but just the same
this mischievous stuff gets rather
serious at times. That's why rs per
cent await.
A Chilean husband is rather like
a hot tamale, according to Sonora
de Leon. He burns but he doesn I
last long. At that, Chilean women
are Chilean enough themselves that
they prefer ardor and infidelity 20
an American husband.
american husbands are too cold
and commercial" Sonora de Leon
said. They seem to forget romance
entirely. Oh. Chilean women like
their men much the best. They
want the freedom and independence
Of the American woman, but they
don't want their husba ands. All
American men think about Ia the
dollar.
First, to a Chilean wife is her
home and her children. Although
she may fight for the vote, as she
is doing, and for equal rights with
men, she will never sacrifice her
home to do it. Nearly every Chilean
woman bears many children, and
no independence will make her
less attentive to them"
Sonora Is Attractive.
The sonora was an attractive
study in beauty preservation. Al.
though she proudly showed the pic
ture of her oldest child. a twenty
year-old boy, she looked to be IN
her twenties herself. She said all
Chilean women looked very young
and said the reasons were they al
ways had plenty Of children, never
worried and never used paint.
"Chileans have an eye for beauty.
and any woman means beauty, ro-
nance, delight to them" she said.
ANY Chilean walking down the
street reading a newspaper. and
seeing the hem OF a skirt ny by.
will exclaim, oh, beautiful without
raising his eyes.
"I think American women would
be happier with little more flatter
ing. a little more love-making. A
Chilean woman has to have 1t. Amer
lean women would be more contend
ed housekeepers with it, l think"
Two OF Sonora de Icons best
known novels are Marta" and
Liberation the last one beins
about the emancipation of Chilean
women. She said her town o.
Santiago was full of women's club
which had as their aim American
women's most modern activities.