A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . Castilian blood in theirveins are as proud as Virtue; and, whilepolitics and business see a certain minglingof skin-colors, the mixture ceases to existacross the threshold of home. No trueSpaniard would permit himself to sing ofhis coal-black lady or his cute littleyallar gal ; and, if he did, he would beostracized. The women are all very pretty or ex-tremely ugly, and never simply plain. Thegirls of the better class are brought up frombabyhood under a constant surveillance thatknows n
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . Castilian blood in theirveins are as proud as Virtue; and, whilepolitics and business see a certain minglingof skin-colors, the mixture ceases to existacross the threshold of home. No trueSpaniard would permit himself to sing ofhis coal-black lady or his cute littleyallar gal ; and, if he did, he would beostracized. The women are all very pretty or ex-tremely ugly, and never simply plain. Thegirls of the better class are brought up frombabyhood under a constant surveillance thatknows no laxity until after marriage, anddoes not altogether cease even then. Thegrowing bud is taught to play the piano orguitar, to embroider, to sing a little, to dancea little less, to speak and read French, topowder her face with art, and to walk like avery queen. She is usually married beforeshe is seventeen, especially if hei* father hasmoney ; and, until the day of her death, shenever sees a modern newspaper, never goesslumming, and never soils her gentle handswith work of any degree. She is apt to love. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 37 her husband devotedly, and does not thinkher career fitly rounded until she is a mother. The men of the same social footing arenot so interesting—to me ; but, nevertheless,they possess many characteristics which claimattention and deserve applause. They arenever drunkards or wife-beaters; they dontdrag their business to the dinner-table andbed; they are not given to profane speech;and they show greater interest in a sonnetthan in the price of pork. Life for both sexes and all grades in PuertoRico is a rose, a kiss, and a cigarette; song,laughter, and manana. The island is, un-equivocally, a Paradise; and, if I rememberrightly, dwellers in Paradise are not expectedto labor. These people amply fulfil the ex-pectation. If you are sick of the worry and fret andjar of contemporaneous life here at home, ifyou care for wide, sweet blue sky, eternalflowers, cr
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