THE RUMANIAN WOMAN.
(By Roma Lobel). The first impression you receive on meeting a typical Rumanian woman ip one or. intense vividness. In stator* she is soinewiiat small, but her figure is usually brohd and ample. She is dark-skinned and dark-hmred, and her face also tends towards broadness and plumpness, with full lips whieli move freely an, incidentally, very, very frequently 1
It is, however, in her eyes that most | of the fire lies, in spite of the fact that they are small. But tdey are of such depth and blackness, so sparkling and so expressive! When she speaks, a world of intensity gleams through them and is accentuated by the strong teeth flashing white through the open lips. Her voice increases the effect. It rings out brightly and clearly, rising and falling with the emotions expressed while words tumble easily and fast. As is to be expected, the Rumanian woman loves dash and brightness in her dress, which, taken on the whole is inclined to be rather cheap. But, cheap or “good,’’ she carries it with the air of a queen and the attraction of a siren. For she is chic and full of charm, and she uses her feminine powers to their full extent.
In her character, apart from being intense and emotional, she is strong and dote-mined, and displays a great deal of self-possession. Her intelligence is very marked indeed, though in culture she is still behind the Western woman. In spite of all her vehement characteristics, there is in her a decided strain of indolence. The Rumanian woman does not care overmuch for work, nor does she care to hurry. It
is in f hrse direction a that her indolence I is chiefly displayed. Such w th e picture of a typical Rl- - woman belong-ng to the middle or upper classes. Tjjo peasant women I loads n far harder life, and so quickly l 1 loses her looks and .becomes coarsened, j In intelligence, too, she is very much i below her more fortunate country- , , woman. But *h e warm nature abounds equally in both. J (
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 301, 15 August 1929, Page 3
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