Spanish Girls.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 2 June 1906, Page 60

Spanish Girls.

Love and religion are the only subjects with which a Spanish senorita is expected to concern herself. Happiness is thus made to hang on chance. Even where a Spanish girl wins her crown of wifehood, and motherhood, her ignorance and poverty of thought tell heavily against the most essential interests of family life. The Spanish girl is every whit as fascinating as her musical, cloaked gallant, who confides to her irongrated lattice. Indeed, these amorous serenades hardly do her justice, blending as she does French animation with Italian fervour. In Andalusia she dances with a grace that makes every other use of life seem vain. And when she bar-

gains! There is nothing sordid about it. Her haggling is a social condescension that at once puts the black-eyed young salesman at her mercy. ‘