Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — Puerto Kican Maidens. [ARTICLE]

Puerto Kican Maidens.

Sentimental village maids fell deeply in love with the Yankee CHIs when soldiers first arrived in Puerto Rico. Girls mature early on that island, and often at 10 and 11 are adult women. They made love in Spanish style to the invaders, and in many cases annoyed the victims of their admiration with their pertinacity. Making love consists in smiling upon the object of adoration through the shutters of a casement or between the iron grills of a veranda, or else in writing fiery letters of affection from early dawn to dewy eve. One young man captured the fancy of a Indie, and to his surprise became the recipient of a deluge of love letters, which were thrown at him from over the wall of a garden or pushed through a hole in the wooden gate. They arrived hourly, half hourly and sometimes every 10 minutes. After he had received 200 he became tired and nsked his chief to change his post!