Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-10-25
FARMERS DAUGHTERS.


insists on dressing in silk, and dresses her
hair with artificial French flowers in con-
tempt of the natural children of Flora
Ladies in the larger towns are so proud of
their rale interesting complexion that they
disguise and try to drive away the natural
roses on their checks as something coarse
and vulgar They veil themselves care
fully from the beams of the burning sun,
drink vinegar and employ other means to
develop still further the moonlight upon
their faces. An English woman or any
fresh beauty arrived from Europe, resen-
bles among American ladies the accompa-
niament Of flutes by key bugle.
DEMAND AND SUPPLY OF WOMEN
The necessity for female society runs
through the whole history of American
colonization side by side with the Indian
wars, At later date The pioneers of the
| West, who crossed the Allcahanics and set
tied on the Ohio and Mississippi, wanted
wives, who have been at times and still
are q rare and valued article in tie United
States. Just as the first emigrants attract
ed them from Europe by all sorts of prom
ises, the later emigrants returned to the
Eastern cities, chivalrously there paid
court to young girls, and worked hard to
fulfil their promises. This, in my opinion,
is the main basis of her position in America,
and she has been pampcrcd, carcsscd,
dressed in silks and satips, till she gradu-
ally became the tender, delicate, pretty
capricious, fashionable puppct she now is.
INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICAN WOMEN.
The intercourse of American gentlemen
with these pretty, pale, elegant ladies is
80 long as they are unmarrieJ-of ma
ture that would not be tolerated in Eng
land. They stand in far too bold and CON
fdential footing for our notions Eng
lish parents it is known grant their daugh-
ters far mere liberty than the French do.
who keep theirs in corvont till it is time
to marry them. Among the Americans,
where the Republican feeling of inderend-
ance is added to their inheritance from
English habits and is born with children Of
both sexes, this liberty has necessarily de-
generated just as you find much across
the ocean which in Englend would press
out Of the ground like tender, sweet as
paragus, but in America has shot up wild
ly and luxuriantly into long hard stalk,
with multitudnous side shoots and seeds.
The emancipation of young women in A
merica is as perfect as it well can be ; thy
hardly allow their Pareits the right Of
guardianship, They take care OF them
selves they are allowed to receive the
visits of young gentlemen without consult
ing tie parents. The young ladies make
appointments with these gentlemen, and
ask them to call In the morning, or to take
tea even, should papa and mama not be at
home. or happen to be engaged in another
part Of the house.
TIE BEAUTY OF TIE FAMILY.
IF there be any especial beauty among
the daughters Of family, she assumes
the mastery so utterly that, SO to speak,
everything is done in her name. Even
though the official invitations to balls and
parties are made in tic parents name, the
daughter has most certainly s, lectcd the
candidates She will also invite any one
she pleases, or may be introduced to, with
out asking Iapa and mamma, When
young people arrange to visit any house in
the evening, they do not say, as in Paris,
''ShalI We pay visit to Madame n. to-
night? p but. 'sShall we 90 and call on
Miss A. or Miss b." The good papa,
some rum-Jibbing member of Congress, or
Senator bothered with polticafcommittees
is not at all taken into consideration. On
entering the house the daughter is natu-
rally seen sitting IN the centre of the So
I ia, and the conversation is exclusively
addressed to her. In many cases the
mother is quite passed over. IF she
be at all old and wearisome, she gen
orally sits with grandmamma, warming
herself at the fire. It often happens that
stranger may stand on very intimate
terms with the daughters ere he has been
introduced to TIL mother.
OF BEAUX.
The expression is extremely character
istic of the superfciality of the relations
AMI sympathies between the two sexes il
Amgrica External beauty is certainly
valued in most countries it is human
weakness, which however, is not displayed
E 50 openly among ourselves, In America n
the contrary, ladies do not hesitate to
state that they only estimate men by their
, beauty. "Who was your beau last night?''
they ask one another = even the farmer S
daughters. '.You shall be my beau to-
morrow" they say to young man. ''Oh,
indeed, Mr. P, you were last night a per-
feet beau for me YOU left nothing to de-