THE LADIES OF VALADoLID.
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The ladies of V2ladolid were so agreeable tha.
| saw much less of the city and its buildings than
l otherwise should have done. In the evening
accompanied them to turtulla, which was at
tended by all the fashion of that place. l really
think there is less of art in the composition of
Spanish women than Of any other people what


ssever. They neithcrpaint nor patch, nor have
those periodical mou!tngs Of feathers which
fashion elsewhere prescribes; but they all dress
nearly alike and in the same ways at all seasons;
that Sonora Maria is only to be distinguished
from Sonora Mariana by countenace more mel
ancholy, by black eyes swimming in more
maiden whitcness, or by figure (Which is ever
gracefully of some what large or smaller mould


The fasquina, or black silk pettcoat, is general
ly bordered at the bottom with black beads, and
SO disposed into an open kind of net work, as to
afford the curious eye the casual fecility of adj.
mring the most beautiful ancle in the world
Their stockings are Of white silk, and they are
never without mantela, Gan ample veil of white
lacc,) which is gracefully flung over their head
and shoulders when they SO abroad, and at other
times adopted as a shawl Small pieces of lead
are attached to the bottom Of the fasqunas,
which accounts for the Ionian elegance of its
foldings and fall. Amidst the many changes that
Spain has undergone, the women alone seem
TO be unchanged. Iattices, and jealouses, and
duennas, and indeed all that used to give love-
making such romantic air in this beyond any
other country, have long since disappeared, but
the passion itself still continues the existence of
Spanish women. 1t is not however, that in
trguing kind ofl love, which we hear ofn France,
where a lady changes her love as easily and as
often as ner gloves; but rather devotion to one
object, which renders them the greatest tyrants
in the world, and makes them exact more adora-
ton than was ever offered up at any idols shrine.