Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-11-12
Superior Health of English wO-

men.
The n Y Home Journal gives the fol-
lowing extract from late letter to the
Times of that city, discussing the watering
places of England, and the ladies Of ton
who frequent them. q
1.-THE stranger at Brighton wear he ever go gay
heart, feels at chilled by the merciess colds
ness aud stolidity around him.
"The ladies' have almost all the appearance Of
culture and r,fnement, yet The culture TO b.
rafh.r of tte mind than heart the refinement rather
of The manners than he feelings Ii many insla1-
ces. indeed in nearly all, their cOuDtensnces are
spirited and their bearing dashng; but the spirit
seems 10 SAVIOR more OF that Of a good horsewomaH
than of q good womRR--the dash of bearing to
speak more of a wellsied body, rioting in animal
buoyancy, than OF beauteOusly trained soul, re-
ioicng in iuIeilec tual joys. They look Ike 70 manv
lawfully begotteD women, begotten not ouly nc
cording to the laws OF Nature, but also according
to the laws OF England. There is a certain law
and-order look about them, iutolerable to me a.
Mr.. John Mitchell, and a certain cramping Influence
goes forth, wherever they pass, keeping down i'm
pulses, IDEAS sentiments and iancits, and holding
YOU within certain laws; women, in fact, that make
tOerably coed wives. dutiful sometimes even noble
mothers, but outside OF the domestic circle, in the
absence OF any wel-defued law in reference to the
duties Of society and humanity, they make but
poor unintelIectual companions, joyless and soul
less, speaking only By nOsylables, with lazy,
uunieaning smile. Even the beauty Of their com
plexlon, aud the glowing healthiness of their ap-
pearsnce j. not sufficient TO cOuuteract the ceiiy-
ing influence of their tout ensemble Nay, this
mouotonous sameness OF fautIess cemplexions and
dyspeptic>prooi constitutions, makes you sigh ocU
casionaly for some c0untenaHce, perhaps more
homey but somewhat more breathing OF gentleness
and thought Their firm freshness sings mtdi, al
reouiens over the immortality of the animal, hut
here and there somehow or Other you yearn after
some evidence OF higher being perhaps a little
less luxuriating in flesh but more expanding in soul
With al sensible persons We hold 10 horror that
foolish school OF ByioDic seniimentaIity who do
not give credit to a lady for intellect and mental
beauty unless she looks pale aud thin aud hall star
we'd. But on the other hand, there is something
perfectly repulsiye in the Overfed and Uvcrpetted
condition of the E. glirh woman animal.
"Lstit not be thought that there are not beau
tfu exceptions Ia England as elsewhere; but TO
give a correct idea of the impression Brighton
would produce on az intelligent American visitor
VIC must take broad look at il as Il whole.
"Woman is the soul of society all the world over.
But wherever we fud, as in England the body bet.
ter cared for than the SOUL there fnd woniau's
soul CrDpltQ ana IODUe0 OF lLS Charms those
charms which gild the society of Baden Baden with
such sweet delights; those charms that spring from
what We sometimes cali impulsivenees, sometnes
genius, taking their rise in the cultivation OF the
ideal in our naturer. The utter absence of such
cultivation IL only more palpable in the EDglish
woman, because Il strikes US more unnatural in
woman than man. Look at the English lady st
Brighton How terribly precise, exact and correc.
in all her movementsl indeed, so much 20 that she
does not notice anything or any one. There is a
certain Pagan unlovinguess, heartless Indifference
TO all around hes, arrogant upward look il to
say, Lady LseksOul condescends % favor the heaV
ems nth brief glance A compact wrapping up
wi,hinIhe domestic precints with species OF quiet
domestic, comfortable eoueeit, as it to say, Lord
Lscksoul attends to all bis eopjugal duties TO their
fullest exteDtr
But il Is this animal unity that gives to the spp
pearance Of tue EDgllsh lady singular fascination
of harmony strangely pleasing to certain class OF
mind. Thus perfect fealty 20 the animall4w when
surrounded as il isin Brighton with all the eclit Of
fashion and all the prestige OF rank and aristoersey
has charm OF is own. Look az Lady Jersey or
anv other nighabfed type of the English woman
FoFoS her. see the uubroken sell possession, the
soul never sending forth impulse 30 break it,
the ststuesque equai,imty Of the heart never send
Inc forth breeze TO rUfie 1.-THE artistic sense
rropriety the maginztion never playing a trick 70
direompose 1.-THE stern, fate-like common hss
enthroned upon tbe cold white brow, the higher
senses never IhroNing Up gloomy feeling 20 agi-
tate 1.-THE rigid iron, old Bsieyshke sdherence
20 fscts-fscts sir--the world OF IDEAS never nov
ing to startle teen Ali these evidences Of nuity
in the Enelieh wowan, the certain sameness OF look
atcong all, the absence OF individuality, give 20 al
EagIeh satsriBg-place harmony OF its own, o
species OF piclaresqae monotony and fanatic fact
ness, and ~ ieiness Of a. unbroken beauty as that
which hangs around the North Pole I"
Now we declare the above to express a
long dormant impression OF our own With
all the superiority Of English health, we
have somehow felt there,was an aHimalisz;,
TO which either the American bellies more
delicate health, or some other cause, made
her SUPERIOR Discnss Il, ladies 4 Is theirs
q ROBUSTNESS, after all, which gives an an
NAL dnllness 70 the sensibilltiesf We leav
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