WOMEN IN SPAIN.
A Madrid correspondent expresses his opinion that the women of Spain now-a-day, as in the time of the once famous “ Maid of Saragossa,” are much bolder than the men. Both in Madrid and in Seville the persons of whom the Government and the police alike are most afraid are not the masculine revolutionists, but the feminine troops of the “ Cigarreras,” that is the women and girls who labour in the numerous cigar factories and workshops. They are not only the frequent beginners of strikes, but are persistent in maintaining them to the bitter end, and reproach their less pugnacious fathers, husbands, brothers, and lovers for their cowardice. It ought to be said,indeed, as one way of accounting for this contrast between the Spanish men and women, that in romantic Spain, the land of the Cid and .of the chivalrous Don Quixote, it is still regarded as the greatest disgrace for a man in office to strike the most truculent of the defenceless sex. The women know that the police will never willingly attack them, even under the sharpest provocation, and this sexual indemnity doubtless explains some part of their astonishing boldness.
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Golden Bay Argus, Volume VII, Issue 66, 5 September 1901, Page 2
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