Deseret Evening News

The Maltese women are among the pleasantest of their sex, both as to their physical attractiveness and winsomeness of manner and character. They are as a rule more petite than those of Italy and Spain, but are very perfect as models of proportion and natural grace. Their carriage is superb. They possess an assurance which is never boldness, with a modesty untainted with prudery. Their feet, hands and head are very small, their faces round rather than oval; their eyes and mouth are large and expressive, and there is an upward, confiding and expectant look in their faces that is very winsome-at least to men.

They are not generally intellectual, but, better still, they are contented homemakers and are like birds of song in all the fireside joys. They mate early, being mothers at fourteen and grandmothers at thirty, when they are still youthful and charming. During the reign of the knights quite an aristocracy of wealth and nobility for so small an area and population sprang up in the islands, which continues to this day, and the Maltese women of this class are types of the greatest beauty and elegance.

As the men of the middle and lower classes are noted for docility, thrift, frugality and many other excellent virtues, virtue itself is the crowning glory of Maltese maids and matrons, and to know this and of their affectionate, true hearted and unassuming lives and ways is to find in every expression of Maltese female loveliness an added and lasting charm.

-Malta Letter.