homes, wiser but sadder men.

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The young Cuban, Miss Evangelina Cisneros, about whom we told you last
week, has lost no time in putting herself under the protection of our
flag.

The very morning of her arrival she went down to the County Court-House
in City Hall Park, and there declared her intention of becoming an
American citizen.

It is a very unusual thing for foreign-born women to become naturalized
Americans. They rarely do so unless they wish to hold property in this
country, for, having no vote or voice in the conduct of the Government,
it is not so necessary for them to become citizens of their adopted
country. When a woman marries she assumes the nationality of her
husband, and can hold any property by right of her marriage, and the
fact that all foreign women who marry Americans become Americans by
their marriage is another reason why it is rarely necessary for women to
take out their naturalization papers.

Miss Cisneros was, however, afraid that the Spanish Government might
insist that the United States should send her back to her prison in
Cuba, and so she hastened to give up her allegiance to Spain, and
shelter herself under the protection of the American Government.

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For some time past there has been a terrible epidemic of yellow fever in