The Women of Mexco.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 249, 24 March 1888, Page 5

The Women of Mexco.

Whoever comes to Mexico in search of femalo beauty is liable to meet with disappointment ; for, though the dreamy dark eyes and raven hair of tho Castilian Mexican type is very attractive, the truth is one sees more handsome woman on the streets of any Northern city in halfan-hour than ho can find in a year at the Aztec capital. One reason for this is that aristocratic dame? and damsels seldom go upon tho streets at all, except in their closed carriages, and women of the lower classes are too hard worked and unkempt to retain beauty beyond their early youth. In the exclusive circles of the Mexican uppertendom are some very beautiful women. The wife of President Diaz has claims to that distinction, and so have a few others in official circles The loveliest girl in the city of Mexico— indeed thp prettiost creature I ever saw— is Eugenie Bazaine, the daughter of that notorious Frenchman (now dead I believe) who figured here so conspicuously during the brief Empire of Maxmilian. Eugenie is only twenty years old, combining all the best traits of her French father and Mexican mother, and is well educated, as education goes in this country, where women are supposed to need no higher learning than a little knowledge of music, embroidery and tho live ot the saints.