Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-11-15
From the Water Cure Journal.
AMERICAN YOUNG LADYISM.

has described more than half the civilized
world, has recently written what purports
to be an account of the young ladies of
America.
ALL AMERICAN WOMEN BEAUTIFUL.
Our traveller begins by romarking
that our domestic institutions produce a
singular sameness:
That beauty, however, should become
democratic, is remarkable fact for the
observer. The fair sex in America has not
only the same universal feelings, impul-
ses, and passions, the same education and
requirements, which they have obtained
from institutions all of like pattern, but
also the same charms. There is a great
cr national family resemblance among
American women than among those of
any European country. The general af
fnity in manners, comfort, and social val
ue has had such an effect on the type of
beauty, that they all appear to have is
sued from the same mold and school, An
American salon filled with ladies resembles
hyacinth- field in the sand gardens Of
Berlin.
CLUMSY, coarse features, striking de-
formitics, original and characteristic ug
illness are found neither among American
men nor women. No one could dream,
there of asserting that le laid cest le
bea~ The great majority of women are
m ,dcrately pretty. Still their charms
are concentrated more in their features
than in their demcanor, figures, or corpo-
real shape A classical bust rounded
arms, and well-developed limbs are the
greatest rarity among them. You may
gaze on hundred and not discover one
shapely waist The efeminate manners
Of these anything but Spartan republican
ladies, their horror of bodily movement
and physical exertion, produce a neglect
and decay of the entire muscular system.
Walking in the open air is something
quite unusual with them for in their coun-
try, where there are no footpaths or prom
enadcs, they move about in carriages and
rarely on horseback. The rest of the long
day they spend, after the fashion of ladies
in Eastern harems, on softly cushioned
sofas, or in their favorite rocking chairs
by the fire side. Full beauties, a la Reu-
bcns, arc never found among them, and
equally rare are those graceful, we'll
rounded, elastic, Junonic forms, which
may still be seen in Italy and other Eu-
ropcan countries. The ladies of Ken
lucky alone offer an exception to this,
but the rest all resemble tulips, IN whom
only the heads delight. Their complex
ion is hardly ever rosy, and rarely lively
J and fresh. They arc all somewhat pal
lid, like Jealous romance readers among
ourselves. They seem to be hot-housc
, plants, and their entire education and
formation in the fashionable ladies' acad-
emies is on the forcing system. These
pretty, delicate, pale faces are met with
not only in the capitals, but far away up
the Mississippi, in the new settlements
and in the prairies among the Indians.
FARMERS DAUGHTERS.
Even the farmers daughter looks
exactly like denizen of the towns. reads
romances, insists on dressing in silk, and
dresses her hair with artificial French
flowers in contempt of the natural child
rem of flora. Ladies in the larger towns
\ are 50 proud of their pale, interesting
, complexion, that they disguise and try t.
| drive away the natural roses on thei
cheeks as something coarse and vulgar
G They vail themselves carefully from tn
r beams of the burning sun, drink vinegar
G and employ other artificial measures t
/ develop still further the moonlight OF
: their faces. An English-woman, or an.
= fresh beauty arrived from Europe, resem
: bles among American ladies the accompan
c imeut of flutes by key-bugle.
INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICAN WOMEN.
"Thc intercourse Of American gentle
men with these pretty, pale, elegant la
dies is-so long as they are unmarried
D. of nature that would not be toleratc'
n 4. E..nlnnd They stand in far too boil