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Show j AMERICAN, YET TYPICALLY SPANISH An American woman who looks enough like a Spaniard to be mistaken for a native Qastilian is the Senora Alicia Ward Rlano y Gayangos, wife of the Spanish ambassador to this country. It is a strange coincidence a quirk of fate as It were that she should resemble so markedly in coloring color-ing and feature the countrywomen of her foreign-born husband. Every one, she says, is amazed when she acknowledges acknowl-edges the United States as her birthplace birth-place and fatherland. This country has much to be proud of when it views the senora. despite the fact that her exotic type reflects credit upon another clime. She first impresses one as being a mere girl, yet upon her youthful shoulders rest the responsibilities of an embassy. She is one of the most popular and efficient ef-ficient chatelaines of the entire diplomatic diplo-matic corps. This is due, perhaps, to another of her personal qualities, that reveals itself after she had been engaged en-gaged in conversation for some little mme. She. has a great amount of what might be called forceful spontaneity. In other words, she is delightfully enthusiastic about if.e joys and beauties of liieiind does not hesitate to express her pleasure; but balancing this youthful i-iithustasm of hers is a well-developed interest in serious matters. |
