SPANISH WOMEN AND MARRIAGE

Mataura Ensign, 3 July 1914, Page 6

SPANISH WOMEN AND MARRIAGE

L * > The .Spanish woman is the only one > who retains 'her maiden, name after ' marriage. Thus Senorita Fernandez ' becomes Senora Fernandez de Blank, . andl her children are called Fernandez 1 y Blank. Also, if she is a lady of rank, her husband immediately assumes her '■ title; and this last descends tlu-ough ' the female line if there, are no sons. 5 Such a 'law (says the 'Queen') forms' ' am interesting vagary of the country ' where women's position on the whole ' reflect® .the Oriental. Aln Toledo there J is oi convent' for tJife education of pemii- ' less daughters of noblemen. Eaclh. of the young ladies is given « dowry oi' 1 £2OO and is eagerly f sought in marriage * as a person of importance. All this. | says toe author of "Mastering Flame" 5 in his ib'o'ok, "My Cosmopolitan Year," 5 -is in jnccordianee with the. Spanish tradi- " t-ion that there is no such thing as 1 an * old maid.