Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-10-05
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English and American Women.


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Mr.. ID. w. Bartlett, writing for the .NsiO
EngIdrider upon England aud the English"
says:
N The English ladies' and the American form
a more striking contrast than the gentlemen.
OF our city women, how many nre there in
refined circles that could walk a couple of
y miles In the open air without excessive ia
d tigue? How many white, lily-pale faces do
we havel how many poor, trembling frumes
how many young creatures reclining in easy
carriages, with not enough of nervous ener-
1 gy to enable them to net with decent courage
upon any occasion that requires that quail
wi In England, one is astonished to see the
almost perfect health of the women and chill
dren. The former are Of splendid frames,
with full busts, rich and rosy checks, excel
lent muscular power, and strong qualities of
mind. Some whimpering fools affect to call
them coarse,--iust as ii health were not re-
fined and illness were delicate Natural
beauty Is the only species of beauty which
true lover of refinement can admire. The
miserable, neglected creature who from want
of air and rest and proper food, is snow-white
and thin and airy in her physical structure,
p Is no moro beautiful than is a magnetzed
corpse. 1t is false refinement that makes it
indelcate to appear in full flow of health.
IT would be just as proper to stamp with vul-
Rarity all Gods beautiful streams and noun
tains and Nagaras, and call beautiful in their
stead some ol-paintings of our own contri-
vance and Invention!
~ The English women are healthy in body
and, of course, in mind. Sickly sentimental
ism, and a "rose-water philanthropy which
expends itself over French ronlanccs and ar
titicial flowers, has no lot nor portion in
their characters. They are icomen. And
their children are worthy of them, for they
are red-cheeked, of stout muscle and nimble
gait, of fine health and appetite. The reas-
on of oil this, is, that the English women ex-
ercisc more in the open air than our women
do An English lady of refinement thinks
nothing Of walking halfdozen miles, moth
ing of riding on horseback for twenty, moth
ing of leaping on the back of trusty animal,
hedges and bitches in pursuit of gnme
remember of once being at William and Ma
ry Howitts' when some one proposed that
we should make little family visit to Ep-
ping Forrest, distant some four or five miles.
The thought never entered into my head that
they proposed going on foot, and as we eros
sed the Threshold Of the door, was expect
ing the next moment to help the two ladies
who were of our party into the carriage. But
/ saw no carriage, and when | asked where
was the carriage, got for reply, We are
going on foot--of coiuse~ Aud so we walk
ed all the way there, and rambled all the day
long over the beautiful Forest and at night
walked back TO "The Ems," and / kept
looking at the ladies while we were return
ing, expecting to see them faint away; and
finally, when we all sat down on some green
sward for moment, ventured very quietly
20 ask one of them, +" Are you not vry tired p
Tgot for reply merry, ringing laugh, and
aaTo be sure not;I could walk a half-dozen
miles farther yeti" When got home was
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