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Show VALUE LOVE MORE THAN GOLD Spanish Men Often Have Fifty Senor-Itas Senor-Itas a Year Spain Leads World In Marriages. Madrid, Spain. Writes one who has traveled much In Spain: "As the majority ma-jority of Andaluslan girls are engaged by the age of seventeen the senorltas do not go to many dances, for a Spsnlard would as soon allow his fiancee to dance with snother man as he v?TniId let her wear a harem skirt or ride a bicycle. At their parties Spanish girls get unbounded admiration, admira-tion, snd a senor who has reached the age of nineteen and talked to a girl without trying to make love to her would be considered gauche In the extreme. The guests are given nothing to eat on these festive occasions, occa-sions, glasses of cold water belns; simply handed around wben they are leaving. "Ixve Is sn all absorbing topic in this amorous land -of orsnge fiowsrs and revolutions. 'In Spain we do not talk of money; we talk of love,' a Spsnlard one said to me. He was right, for love Is the beginning snd end of every Spaniard's thoughts. On the feast dsys the young men play no games, preferring to stsnd about snd see the girls pass, and in every dally newpaper you will read of duels fought for some fair senorlt i's favor. "The typical senor falls In love fifty times a yesr with a newni is and a passion that has In it something of molten lava, and Is about as durable. A pelr of laughing eyes once reen at a window, a glimpse of a pretty fae la tte street, and he counts his world well lost. Spain is the most marry-nf marry-nf country la Europe." |