Bright days in sunny lands . s of flowers and shrubbery: thy kiss is as sweet as wine and thy glance, like wine,make me lose my reason! It may be as well that theromance and the gorgeousness of the age of purestMoorish blood have passed away, and that a NewSpain is actually dawning upon the horizon of somecoming century. It will be less knightly to the imagi-nation to have stronger minds and braver doers in theplace of the Arabian poetasters and builders, but thechange will mean a new royalty that will again havesway where there was once so much servility, andwhere there is to-day such lackada
Bright days in sunny lands . s of flowers and shrubbery: thy kiss is as sweet as wine and thy glance, like wine,make me lose my reason! It may be as well that theromance and the gorgeousness of the age of purestMoorish blood have passed away, and that a NewSpain is actually dawning upon the horizon of somecoming century. It will be less knightly to the imagi-nation to have stronger minds and braver doers in theplace of the Arabian poetasters and builders, but thechange will mean a new royalty that will again havesway where there was once so much servility, andwhere there is to-day such lackadaisicalness and shift-lessness in the behavior of the modern Spaniards. It has been stated that to secure an idea of thebeauty of the Sevillian ladies one must go to the tobac-co factory, Vv^hich is one of the largest in Europe, em-ploying over three thousand operators. I went, butsaw no astonishing specimens of handsome youngwomen. The large and splendid building, one hun-dred and fifty years old, situated on one of the main. Alcazar Gardens^ Seville. THE CITY OF SEVILLE 57 streets of the city, opposite to the spacious gardens ofthe Duke de Montpensier, was divided into three im-mense workrooms, each of them containing abouteight hundred women. Tlie latter were separated in-to groups, seated around long work-tables, each groupmaking up cigars or cigarettes. They all had tan-col-ored faces. None were well-dressed; few were somuch as * pretty. Probably it is only another proofthat clothes have a great deal to do with the looks ofeven well-formed ladies. They chatted while theyworked. Some were eating luncheons, and all seemedcontented with their employment. The heat of theselow-ceilinged rooms, which resembled the crypt of achurch in appearance, was not so great, but the airwas close and stifling. Each operative is paid accord-ing to the amount of her work. The skilled ones earnabout four and a half pesetas a day—sixty-one cents—and the indolent, or unskilled, from two to thr
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