Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1829-09-17
MISCELLANY,
ENGLISH WOMEN.

The following sketch Is from London
correspondent oftho New York Spectator.
In person, tho English women resemble
those Of New England-the western part
Of New-E ngland-much more than any
other class Of American females. They
have the blooming checklist 10 not always
here that colour signifies bloom-which so
often sond thrill to tho heart Of ono trav-
cling through the beautiful Wales Of that
fairy region Connecticut. With q little
more tNlness Of form, they, however, unite
necessary consequence, less lightuess Of
step, and elasticity Of fgure-and pride re-
presses that tendency to sportiveness, which
characteristics our American fur in their
youthful days, as we'll as that moro digniG-
cd OR Of matronly cheerfGlnoss which sets
on tho countenances Of our American la-
dies, when, with sons and daughters crowd.
, cd around them, they strive to make their
firesidos pleasant to their husbands and
their select friends. Every thing hero,
madam, from tho tying oftho shoe to tho
placing Of the diamonds upon the tiOra--
from the first yawn on waking, to the
smoothing Of tho pillow before going to
sleep, 10 regulated by passion. There Is
an exact hour. for waking, ifyou have slept,
which sometimes you do not, for fashion
has never been able to mako the heart OBJ
livious to mental sullering-the number Of
Jumps ofsugar you will deposit In your cof-
fee cup-the dress you will wear at tho
breakfast table-the hour you will devote
to promenade. Why do I particularise,
when oil Is expressed by tho words Tho
"tyranny Of fashion,"
have spoken In the last paragraph, of
the persons Of tho English laAies-descri-
bling those Of the first class. The features
ofthe lower grades are coarser, resembling
more that portion Of American women who
are not far removed from the Dutch or
Germans. The occupations Of the fash.
ionable part Of English females, are much
tho same 90 in the American cities, each
trait being deepened, Of course. II, in
your city, dinners are given ut Eve, here
the hour Is from seven to nine. Ifyou arc
set down at the route at nino, here IL Is
two hours later. II your hour Of rising 10
ten or eleven, here Il Is one or two. II
Mrs. Coral, Of Broadway, and Mrs. Jasper,
of State-street, are at the cost Of thou
sand dollars for jewelry, here wealthy
commoner, or my lady Duchess, are. in
Rundle's debt some thirty or forty thou
sand guineas for diamonds. Expensive as
we deem ourselves In dress, our OUTLAWS
are but in the comparison Of a mountain
with molehill. BY tho side Of those
which attend the fashionable world hore
the miniature by the side Of the full length
portrait, carries tolerable idea. A hum
dred times more extravaganza in dress
and parties, balls, routes and operas being
more frequent. A fashionable lady de-
votes her whole life to these amusements
her husband and she, to use the beauti-
fal thought in the Prisoners of Chillon,
are "sogether, get apart, "-perhaps
"Fet.ered in hand, aud pinned in heart"
And IL they have affection for each other,
there is an imperious necessity created by
the same allspowerfnl governor Of the re-
gion, west of Regent street aud Pail Mall,
20 repress II /; to seem Indifferent; to ap.
pear to prefer all to him or her who, ac-
cording TO the bond, should be the exclu-
sive possessor Of the homage Of the heart.
Children may do very well for five min
utes after dinner they may come in with
pie and 60 out with cheese, but there is a
snug room, well provided with pap spoons,
and cribs, and hobby horses, aud dolls, and
careful women, y'cleped nursery; and I
have (pardon my pedsntry) Of their child
ISL juvenilities, pretty good reasons for
thinking that the tocus IN gao seldom COM
prehends !" q suite departments" Thus
the mother lives apart from her children.