Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-03-13
LErTnR From Eijnnpn A.

VIII be read with amusement:
OF real beauty one sees but liire ia
Paris. Out of twenty faces, ten n; lcas,
may be said To be less IA Indifferent.
five rather pretty, three tolerablv so. one
quite So, and The asst one IAN agreeable
expression" O' that radiancy aud lrans-
pareucy, that marble polish which one
sees In London or in England generally.
no, trace is 10 be found on this side o.
the channel. But then, even in ENGLAND
II is only the higher classes who can boas,
OF beauty; the counlenauces of the labor.
ing orders ARE nowhere more deformcd
and degraded than even there.
But after all there is no city in Europe
where you see such gions of handsome
women as IN Broadway, or in Chestnut
street, where youth and beauty are al
most uniformly united The mlliners
OF Philadelphia cove. more beauty than
all The skill oil the French 'modisies" can
show off by candle liaht You meet fre-
qnenlly handsome foot - pretty hand
line eye provisional lips pretty
neck-u fine waist long I hair pea ri
tee'h- round arm, &c; but you scarce.
~ ever meet these things, or any number
OF them. IN one aud the same person. a
flemish sculptor told me that he REQ ,ircd
twenty>eight different models To make a
Venus. ana that after all his goddess had
very ugly toes, which he could no, even
supply from Imagination.
AS To form. no women in the worli are
equalto our own American. Ii the Greek
model Is 10 be found on earth. il is, am
sure. IN Philadelphia, and the Eastern
Shore Of Maryland. Fools have said
that they a-e defirIen, IN cmbonpoin', but
the true poetry o: sure consists Of beng
so proporlioned that nothing can be added
without destroying the harmony OF all the
paris, and nothing taken away without
exhibiting deficiency This, too. is the
reason Why our American women fade
sooner than the European. Take n syl-
! liable away from poesy, and YOU DESTROY
The rhythm; prose ESSAYS can be handled
in any way without losing much of their
attractions. The fact is, | scarcely saw
a woman on the Cuntinenl Of Europ. that
could not spare, or dispose of twenty nd.
ditioDai pounds without suffering mater
ally IN appearance; the complete anarchy
oil her proportions is for the most part pre-
vented only by the iron scepire-of her
mantua maker.
But, if the French women are not gen.
orally handsome, they certainly possess
The art OF pleasing, which they study from
heir infancy. and which they practice
alike towards al persons without disiinc-
hon of ropk or hr'une. Herein they
have an immense advantage over the En-.
g'lsh. Another art which they possess is
the throwing off of particular part OF
their persons which is handsome. saw a
small hand, a pretty foot, a round arm,
hae mouth, AID so forth. The moment
that French woman knows that she has
a-fine bant,the whole ATTITUDE OF her body
will be so arranged MS to exhibit i, to 4 e
best advantage. The hand becomes The
centre Of battlefield the head quarter
OF all the saliies wi which she attacks
the allies impressionablc portion OF man
kind. Now that fans are again in f,shiln,
she will be constantly playing with it;
then arrange her curls, because that will
give her an opportunity Of exhibiting her
fingers. In her box at the opera one of
her gloves will he of, and her white not.
ehee hand placed on the red velvet cush
ion, which will make ii appear twice as
while as IL really is, uRd exhibited i, in
position fit for a sculptor. Ii she have
pretty loot, you may rely upon it she will
never sill down without uncovering it: her
gait will be such as TO compel you 10 look
dozen.
The only thing for which the French
women are really distinguished, is The a
greeabIeness nj their manners. They
are less restrained than the English. and
what lew Americans would believe, less
affected. For though he abstract regard
Tor truth is much greater with the Arg.a-
Saxon, and Saxon race, than wi b any
other people Of Roman'ic extraction, vet
the foims are so exlIemel y rigorous, and
so lite based on the natural condition Of
men and women, that TO comply with them.
it's necessary. in many instances 10 check
the best feelings, and 10 appear all bu,
what men and women are. The artificial
distinctions, too, are so arbitrarily drawn,
thit an Englshman or an English woman
taken out OF the circle they have been &C.
cusiomed To move in, is like suspended
body removed from is centre of gravity.
swinging 10 and fro, now uunaturally Ell
evated on one silc. and now unnatural v
depressed on the other, until it has fund
lis equilibrium.
Hence the riGcul us airs Of English
women on the Continent; their inordnale
desire for position in society, and their
extreme jealousy Of each other. An En-.
glshwomnn.'o be loved and admired, mus
be seen at home; her poetry LASTS until
"she is out" From TINT moment she
pleases by her beauty, her rank, or her
fortune, but seldom by the natural grace
ot her manners. 70 please tbrou n any
thing else, would be deviation from ne
rules Of urisIocracy, and beIray vulgar
extraction, or az least a relationship 10 a
city Alderman
In France the desire TO please is mimi.
Iested on the part Of the women in every
act OF their lives, and has become so g.n
ar III .,.1 II