Show LOVE MAKIN balcony plays star part in por dugals wooing girl lowers cord and draws up ad note it if parents approve he Is permitted to call lisbon marriage as aa in the lives 0 many Is certainly the most important event in that of the guest woman and what la a more in th early days of courtship it Is attended with some borne romance for there Is leas of 0 b siness business u and more of 0 romance n the flit ways of the portuguese lover this Is how tho the portuguese cavall fi vi conducts his affairs de coeur it if tit be sees bees a pretty girl in the street with whom he would like to become ao ac quain quainter ted he follows her lie he foil follows her in the face of nil all difficult difficulties le s chaperons chaperones chape rons and duennas duennes right to ll 11 hei e 1 door and he notes the address next day he comes again and tl if the young lady approves of him she will most moat certainly be on oil the took look out but sometimes hard fate ate an an gry gi geardian ardian or a stern parent pre vents her and then the gallant boulb Is kept waiting so it if during a ramble through por you should notice a young roar mar loitering at the corner of the street or gazing intently at a house y you ol 01 1 must not imagine that he Is meditha ting a burglary or anything so BO des but know that he Is merely a harmless and amorous youth gazing at the windows of his lady love de be sure if there Is a way she will not keep him waiting long for the portuguese girl Is a past master in the art of intrigue soon she leans over the balcony and smiles at him and the happy youth thus encouraged ties a note la 4 L kl A soon she leans over the balcony and smiles at him he declares his undying passion to the cord which the tha fair lady has dropped from the balcony the next day the younk young man buoyed with hope comes again but this time he Is bolder for he rings at the he door if the inquiries which the addy la dyg parents will doubtless have made inada prove satisfactory he Is admitted to make the acquaintance of the young lady and her bar family and then should be please and the ladys ladya father be are prepared to give the necessary dot wedding bells will end this little romance once married the death knell of romance and alt all else la Is often sounded for the portuguese bride married often when yet a child chila she has the cares of wifehood and mothe motherhood rhod thrust upon her for unlike her sisters of france marriage does not spell her emancipation her freedom from the tha cha peron the bride of today has nn more freedom thin tho the maiden of yesterday without husband or ch chaperon aVeTOn she aha may not walk abroad A jealous husband will often keep her as closely guarded as though she had bad taken the veil the tha lives therefore or of the portuguese women aro are often as barren and devoid of interest ua those of the women in the far east certainly among the rising generation there laa growing unrest a yearning for culture a vague idea that thoro there la Is a world somewhere beyond portugal but the lives of many are often as aa hedged in as aa their own back gardens in fact to lo man their house bouse and family their killar or orange gr grav pv represent their whole world the only world they know it la Is no unusual thing to fand a portuguese woman who has been willingly willing lir incarcerated for several years one lady of my DC ac told me she had not been beyond tho the garden for four years and you rou ar not bored I 1 exclaimed in astonishment yo you u do not want to go out ant I 1 it if I 1 should go out she bho replied lu li her pretty broken english 1 I rest not till I 1 am returned tor for who knows what may happen in my absence go out she continued with a barug of her plump shoulders for what for should I 1 go out here f J have hava my children ny my hush husband slid my home what more can I 1 wanell vhal inifred about the tha balcony whole book might be wrt written ten 1 11 r |