Show Freedom Spnnlsli Girlhood The fact that the Spanish woman enjoys en-joys no social freedom until she marries or attains her majority has given rise to the supposition among those who know us only through the fantastic tales of unscrupulous travelers that in Spain women live subject to the most absolute of tyrannies and that we are the victims of the brutal selfishness of man Nothing could be further from the truth or more calumnious The Spanish woman yielding cheerfully and willingly to obedience to paternal authority enjoined by religion receives with the nupfial benediction the liberty to go about alone and to guard unaided un-aided the good name and respect with which in childhood and youth she had seen herself surrounded But let it not therefore be imagined that the Spanish Span-ish girl leads the life of a recluse subjected sub-jected to monastic rules So far from this being the case perhaps there is no woman in the world who enjoys herself her-self more while she Is unmarried who is a greater coquette or who tyrannizes I tyran-nizes more completely over her suitors I and when long dresses give her the rigt to present herself into society a period of amusements and diversions begins for her which terminates without with-out regret on the part of the good wife as soon as the duties of maternity come I to fill her life and to completely occupy oc-cupy both her thoughts and time New York CommercialAdvertiser 1 |