Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-04
che Da lip spy.
SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1854.
From Chambers Edinburgh Journal. fl
Female Beauty ina Old England and New
England.


of what is called chiseled beauty in America
than in Europe-that the features of thew
men are finer and the head more classical
But here ends the triumph ofour sisters of the
West their busts are far inferior to those we
admire at home, and certain attenuation in
the whole figure gives the theidea of fragility
and decay. s-a a.I,I b. ..,l..
And this idea is correct What they want
is soundness of constitution and in conse-
quence Of the want, their finely cut faces, TAX
en- generally, are pale instead of fair, and sal
low when they should be rosy, In this coun-
try, woman is in the prime of her attrae-
tons at thirty-fv and Subsequently remains
almost stationary till fifty, or else declines
gradually and gracefully, like beautiful day
melting into lovely evening. In America,
twenty-five is the farewell line of beauty in
woman beyond which cAnes decay; at thirty
FIVE she looks weary and worn her flat chest
symbolising the collapsed heart within; and
at forty, you see in her thin and haggard fea-
lures all the marks Of premature age.
1t is customary to regard this as the effect
Of climate; but some think it folly to 90 to an
ultimate cause, when the whole system of ar
tihcial life in America offers direct defiance, as
they assert, to the known hygienic laws. This
view is supported with great intrepidity by
woman's journal in Providence, called the
Una--not a Ladys Magazine fair reader, but
a regular broad-sheet. written by and for wo-
men. whose leading articles are on woman's
riobts. and whose advertisements are from vo-
men-doctors. women-professors. women-Iee-
turers, women everything. Una admits the
fleeing character Of her country women's
charms, and contrasts more especially Old En-
gland with New England yielding frankly the
pas in beauty to the former. She hints, we
Of tba early loss IF female cbarn,s in Amer;-
co-sncb as sthe bounding If 1;ea,s borivop
b1, +lIe ,ott, cares that volt 81, ,,,oo+ drinL
and ra;mont tbe absence If Genial and I'M
,,ro,ing intarconrse aud Of aarnast interest i,
tbe bo1,s oud fort,inoss of tho roo,. ond tlo
iittle rvol,ies and little asn;ratio,,s On which
for lack Of hotter obiects 50 nonv a so,I i
fam 70 waste ;ts encrgios All IBIS Il Vow
we'll for fbe nbilosonbic Tim. 1vbo novs, bey
Tcs nndar ,irotest s,,ce sbo bod NJ vcica +,
LAYING them on; but the implied notion, that
our pretty countrywomen have no petty cares
connected with their food, no little rivaIries
little aspirations but plenty of earnest interest
in the destinies of the race, is very commitment
tary. After forrishing little, however, about
these grievances, which, we fear, are not
,cholly unknown to our English beauties. She
proceeds to the main point. What, she asks
is the diet of New ENGLAND generally; Hot
biscuit. fat pork. and tea these are the sta
pies. They are varied with preserves, make
pound for pound, an d endless varieties ofcake
and the inevitable pic Pastry. which most
children in ENGLAND are not allowed To toncb
until they get their long frocks or tailed coats
on, is here the every day food of YOUNG and
old. Salt pork is cheap-that is. greasy full
someness makes it pail sooner on the annette
| than any other meat. and so it forms the peiee
! de resistance at almost all tables. except those
who live within hail of a butcher, and whose
owners are well to do in the world. Tea Is
the grand nanacea for all fatigue, low shirts.
dampness. GOODNESS. pains in the head and Il,
the back. and. in short, for nearly all the ills
that flesh is heir to: the quantity taken III
middle-aged and elderly women almost sur.
pass belief. Certainly, to put the average al
six or eight cups day would be settino Il
low enough
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| Goblet was delighted with the fondness Of
| the Americans for ''extreme unction.' and on
his return to this country. did everything in
his power to force the greasy dish ,pon the
English palace affirming that a dislike to fat
pork was decided symptom of i,ssaaitv. We
may allude, likewise, to the important part
played by hogs lard in the composition of cos
mStics. The thousand and one kinds of paste
and pomatum for the skin and hair are all of
this substance, only differing a little in the
color and perfume; and in nineteen cases oi1t