How They Live In Brazil

A.o,: 'f the Portland Press thus descrito 9 the beauties of lü Para: Paraíso wrotched oolleotion of shanfcio disposed aleng very na ,-. : 1 1 1 ;m open -■ wor running down . 4de. In doppy we I is to 0 daya oul of the 385, naked obildron disport thctnsolvos in Baid BE , . , iteni ; ara suffi, diluted for tVi Ethiopian ough Boaroely enougb so í is, however, nove!, if not ] i :"1 it itonishing hbw readily Darwin, theórieS OE the " Doscent of Man" are accopted os probable after a brief ac(n:iiiitanco witb tin: Bavage System of Para. Al the age of ten or 80, shirts and chomisea are confeired apon oúr jnvenile Prienda, tratas tho taila of these garmenta supply tho place of tlic pocket handkerchicf - decenoy profita very little ïd by their adoption. In factlshould say that decency is i oónventional notion al. n in the miss of the popin of thistown - thai mae$ oóMiating entirely of niggera ;md Indians and partly oolored crosses botween the two. iilv iv tho business part of the tovn itoii! tlio river that white facea the majority - and a very se dy Bort of white it 18, ra( (rhity browii ;ny othèr. V( bïte ladiés !'-.. oever stir uut of the house in thia par of the world. Ihey lire iú the truc Orien tal style, spon ir lives behind a latticed windoyr, through whifh they gaze droamily ap n the minnte fracture of L'uni which lies within the range of their visión. In well oonduote i bottses no books are allowed to the womunkinl except niisiUs, and if on uny eiöeptional ocoasioTX the yóung ladies aro taken out on (bot, they are w ut dlightiiy i'- advanoe of mamma, in order that i vigilanl eye may bo kept apon yvor turn of the heftd and overy gestttre of the hands. We weit tho other mght ti a lult in order fo have a look ut the fair Paranose, vrho are üPöt othorwise visible. Tho poroeni ige of beauty wis iincommonly small, öwing to thoir indolent in-door üfe ; the }irls seeiD fat, and have no Ereshnees of complexión whatover. What their intellectuaJ nerita may bo is nel difficult to di'viüo, and as for their virtttos, t':'" own mol mate i ■■■: t iken as not at uny rale too sevie.