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Updated: May 2, 2025
From the smiles and greetings of wayfarers among whom were some pretty Indian girls and mestizas it was evident that the handsome young foreigner, who had paid them the compliment of extravagantly adopting their national costume, was neither an unfamiliar nor an unpleasing spectacle.
It was at this ball we met for the first time a family of American mestizas three sisters there were, if I remember rightly, all pretty girls, with regular features and soft brown hair, this hair distinguishing them at once from the other women of the place with their more conventional blue-black tresses.
Some of them are ornamented with silk stripes, some are plain. Many of the mestizas are extremely pretty, but their gait drags a little, from their habit of wearing slippers. They are wanting in the ease, in the tact, that the women of Spain show in every relation of existence.
A large leghorn hat of fine black straw, with chiffon, was on her graceful head, and her tiny feet were in silk stockings and patent leather. She held a gold and ivory prayer-book in gloved hands, and a jeweled watch hung upon her breast. She might have passed for a Creole or for one of those beautiful Filipino mestizas, daughters of Spanish fathers and Filipino mothers.
Their figures are well shaped, being perfectly straight and graceful, and nearly all of them have the small foot and hand, which may be regarded as a symbol of unmixed blood when very small and well shaped; as although the Mestizas gain from their European progenitor a greater fairness of skin, they generally retain the marks of it in their larger bones, and their hands and feet are seldom so well shaped as those of the pure-bred Indian, even although the Spaniards are noted for possessing these points in equal or greater perfection than the people of other European countries.
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