Miraculous Saint Raymund, You who help everyone to marry, Please tell Saint Anthero That I wish to be married soon To a very good-looking young man, In the church of Saint Benedict. Before the altar of Saint Rosa I want to give my hand as a wife To him whom I love so much, Asking Saint German And also Saint Henry That I shall be happily married. May Saint Odoric permit That the young man be rich, And Saint Augustine grant That he loves me very much And I beg Saint Robert That he may be clever. Also I pray Saint Vincent That the wedding may be soon, Begging Saint Innocencia Not to let me lose patience, And asking Saint Caetano That it may happen this year. I have already prayed Saint Inez Not to let this month pass, And Saint Mariana, That it may be this week— And I beg the Virgin Our Lady That it may be this very hour! From which it will be seen that the saints are expected to be useful, and that _festas_ of the church are agreeable to these young people, leading in the older centres a rather restricted social life. Women in Brazil occupy a position out of which they have been forced or have voluntarily emerged in many countries. It is for many reasons a very happy life, for, withdrawn as she is, the Brazilian wife and mother has complete authority over the wide sphere which tradition has so long assigned to her. It is a moot point whether women in other lands would seek emergence from that circle if circumstances did not send them from it; the salary-earning women of Western Europe and North America perhaps do not always realize that theirs is not altogether a choice between home and independence, that they work because they must work. The exigencies of climate, as well as modern education, send women out to the ranks of the workers in lands where there are at least as many women as men.