A Monster Factory

One of the sights of Seville which no tourist misses is the cigarette factory, in which the governraent employs nearly 2,000 women and girls. The showing about of visitors is accordingly looked tipon as a regular souroe of income by the porter and rnatrons. Af ter getting perrnission to enter you are placed in charge of a matron, wbo shows you through her own department and then passes you on to another, and so on, until your stock of pesetas and half pesetas, put aside for fees, is exhausted. These matrons accompany the visitors, not in order to prevent the girls froro flirting with them - nothing could do that - but to see that no tobáceo, picadura or cigarettes may disappear. Before entering each room a bell is rung to warn the girls, who are in great dishabille on account of the sun, to put on their wrappers, and as the door opens scores of round arms and pretty shoulders are seen disappearing, while several tiundred pairs of coal black eyes are f astened on you. The passages are lined with eradles, and the young girl mothers to whom they belong implore you with eyes and hands for a penny for the Murillos ol tne tature iymg in thera. These girls axe more frank than subtle in their fliratieras. ïhere isnot one in the crowd who will not be immediately conscious of a man's gaze fixed on her, nor will she be the first to turn her eyes away. Some will wink and even throw a kiss from a distant corner at the rich Inglese - all foreigners are supposed to be wealthy Englishmen. They are a merry lot on the whole, these poor girls, the quickest of whom make only 2 shillings a day, for which they have to toil 10 to 12 boturs. They are allowed to smoke if they wish, and they make use of this privilege. They are remar kably def t at rolling the oigarettes, but not all seem eager to make as many as possible, for some are idling and others are asleep, but no one cares, as each one is paid according to the number she twists up, aided only by a piece of specially made cartridge paper and a small tin aff air on her little finger.