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Show Homely Women of IVrln-ral. I ThePcrtugutsemeu are rather Us-.loiv Us-.loiv the medium height, of olive complexion, and have brilliant black eyes. For the most jiart they are very handsome. The women, ou the contrary, arc excessively homely, home-ly, but dress in very good taste, lioth gentlemen and ladles copy the Parisian fashions. The preltitstl women are the fisher maids, who go j about tho streets barefooted wllhl their baskets of fish on their heads, I after tlie fashion of the Kgyptian ! women with their pitchers- of water, i I Some of these girls are remarkably f ! -Tttty and, strange to say, their feet I are small and delicate looking aud ' their forms are graceful. h'anmt , I (.i- 7Tmfa. |