Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-28
and American Benuty.

30 I would not go so far as to say that to an
average American eye no woman is hand
some who is healthy, or that to an average
English eye no o.woman is handsome who is
not healthy, but will say that upon any OBJ
2 servant person, who has Travelled largely in
both countries, very much such an impress
ossfon as this regarding the taste of the two
peoples is produced. : In America we often
see this curious prejudice carried beyond
mere personal comeliness and even applied
to the qualities of the mind. Thus tbs
thought, by q strange process OF analogical
partiality, that skinny and feeble bodied
woman mot only may have, but pro baby
e has a superior intellect, but that a plump
! and robust one Is likely, in this respect, 'to
be deficient. Why low circulation should
!. be thus associated with mental activity and
cice Uersd seems irrational enough, but yet
is easy to understand; people are al
ways ready to attribute desirable qualities
: OF a deeper sort to those in whose favor
they are specifically prepossessed. szz
The Engfishman has commonly an OPP
posite prejudice, and believes in the healthy
mind in the sound body principle. Now it
Iisvery philosophical to make the best OF
the Inevitable, and to cultivate high
opinion of that which is our own; buGif
lit can be shown that Improvement is pos
sible and that we can have 1or our own
something much better than what in fact
we possess, it clearly becomes wise to set
s1ence and development, and to measure
from them rather than from any detective
or artificial standards, whose only recon-
mendatiop is that people in general can be
got to pretend that they think them the
best If there be indeed any mysterious
relation between the faculties which secrete
thought and those which make or retard
the growth of flesh, it is to be feared that
It works oppositely to the common Ameri-
can idea; think there are more compre-
hensively great personages-such as Glib
bon, Napoleon, Byron and Buckle-who
have inclined to outgrow symmetry, than
lof those who, of the Calvin Edison order,
have in an equal degree fallen short of it,
-, Iventure to disagree with one of our Ia
mented noyelists SO far as to say that there
are in. England lovely women in all social
ranks, and that they bear large proportion
to the whole number. From the opera
house to the country fair is pretty wide
range, and i have seen nearly as many fine
girls at the latter as the former, although,
7of course, not of SO perfect type. I'm
doubtedly there are many coarse faces in
England; far more that are hideously so
than can be found In any purely American
population; these usually, SO far as they are
women's, are due to unfeminine employ
ments as well as to comparative ignorance.
Yet even in such cases the figure is, at least
in youth, commonly good. Taken through
out, should say there are more pretty
but that there are far more fine figures in
England thaninrthe United States. The
latter observation is applicable to men as
well as to women. Such gaunt, dyspeptic,
cadaverous-lookiDg objects as stalk about
the streets of New York and Boston are
almost unknown In London. One may see
at any hour in the day on ferry boat here
more yellow, fieshless, and not yet middle
aged but toothless, women, than could be
singled out In a great English thOrOughfare
in the whole twenty-four.
English girls have fipe busts, fine limbs,
and, although their feet and hands are apt
to be larger than with us, generally SYM
The throat is with them larger and stronger
than with our women. So far as height is
concerned, the women OF the upper classes
are taller than our average, bnt not those of
the others. Their teeth are usually stronger
and lastflonger.i They are less nervous
than Americans; and although they have
higher tempers they are not less impulsive
in affection and at least as adhesive in
friendship. These points of differences are
so greatly matters of temperament-which
again is greatly nodded by climatic and die
tary influences-tbat have no fear in men
tioning them of being accused of uupatri-
otic prejudice. The stock is substantially
the same, and it's highly important ss well
as interesting to note the various phenom-
ena which attend its growth in different
conditions. III we have candidly estimated
it, the general drift of things with us has
been, ub to the past few years, towards in
creasing the numbers of pretty, faces and
decreasing that of symmetrical and well
developed figures. Our women have been
most attractive to look at-at Lrst sight, at
least-but' not so eligible as wives and
mothers. Dry atmosphere, stimulating
diet, extremes of temperance, education
more diffused and smattering than thorough
and efficacious-these or other more mys-
terious causes have been working to make
our women more spirituelle perhaps than
the bulk of English women, but to make
them also less wholesome, useful, and hap
py ani,nals-The Round Table.
THEmostseusibIe thing we have seen re-
Gently il a sneeeh- made by cOlOred "brOth-