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SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF ALL NATIONS
#10 - SPAIN
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1893
Lithographer: Kaufmann & Strauss
  
| "COPYRIGHT" Text Variations |
| There are two
varieties (that I know of) in the
"COPYRIGHT" text which appears on this
card, as shown below. In both cases, the text
appears in the lower right corner of the card. |
Text reads: "PAINTING COPYRIGHTED 1893 ARBUCKLE BROS.",
spread over 2 lines, and the top line is 15mm long. |
Text reads: "PAINTING COPYRIGHTED 1893 ARBUCKLE BROS.",
spread over 2 lines, and the top line is 18mm
long. (This is the variety shown on the full-size card, above). |
| (For an overview
of the copyright variations in Sports & Pastimes, click
here.) |
| Reverse - Text |
Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
Right section: |
| SPAIN. |
| SPAIN,
to most of our imaginations, is
the home of romance and of the
picturesque. The climate is warm
and enervating. As a consequence
its people are inclined to be
languid and indolent, except when
roused to action. Then the hot
blood spurs them to fierce and
warlike deeds. |
| The
bull-fight is the national game.
It is an ancient institution, and
we are told it was indulged in
even by the Greeks and Romans.
Spain adopted it during her early
history. One of the sixteenth
century kings interdicted the
sport, but when Joseph Bonaparte
mounted the throne, he sanctioned
it once more. Since then, in
Madrid, the capital, an
amphitheatre capable of holding
12,000 people and standing on a
principal square, attests the
favor with which bull-fighting is
regarded. Especially fierce
animals are purposely reared, to
be killed in these combats. These
are brought into the ring, goaded
to madness, and finally
despatched; sometimes not without
dragging to death with them, one
or more of their tormentors. |
| Dancing
is a recreation as old as the
world, yet of all peoples the
Spanish are most addicted to it.
The fandango displays the
wonderful grace of this people to
special advantage. The cachuca is
considered the poetry of motion.
The bolero is however the Spanish
national dance. It is a stately
measure, to the time of a minuet,
and it is accompanied with the
rattle of the castanets and the
sweet notes of the cithera. Add
to these the waving of scarfs and
fans in the deft hands of Spanish
beauty, and the charm is
complete. |
| Guitar-playing
is universal in Spain. This
soft-toned six-string instrument
in the hands of a devotee fairly
speaks. It is used most generally
in the serenade also. |
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NOTE: To see non-Arbuckle usage of this
supposedly copyrighted Arbuckle illustration,
click  here.
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