Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-06
PLACE L DANES!
Representative Women at the
sea Side.

From the Cincinnati EnquireT.l
While here | have noticed the differ
ence between the women Of New York,
Boston. Philadelphia and Baltimore, in
the anne station of life. Any one who
has travelled can detect the difference at
once.
The New Yorker is the most stylish,
the most artificial and the most intense,
with an evident effort at self-suppression,
never quite successful. She is more
elaborateIy and e1pensively dressed than
any of her sisters, allowing love Of dis
play to get the better Of her taste, and
a little inclined to be too pronounce.
She is independent, self-reliant, self-as-
sorting, throwing out challenges by her
manner to all her masculine friends as
if she said Make love to me if you
choose, l can take care Of myself. Be
on your guard, and | will be on mine.
Her self-confdence is too great. The
woman who believes too much in herself
is always in danger for every expert
ence is a revelation to her.
The Philadelphia is demure and a
trife shy, very quiet, gentle, ever Qua
ker-like improves upon acquaintance (;
is not brilliant; never surprises you /;
bores you a little by talking of family
and of distinguished Philadelphians you
never heard of. You may think her
plain at first, but at the end Of a few
hours she has grown pretty. She Is
more prudent than her sex generally,
but like them will forget the names Of
gentlemen when her heart is touched
She is liable to misunderstood mere gal
lantry, and you see in her eye that she
is wondering what papa would say Of you
as a ~son-in-law, when you are simply
trying to be agreeable.
The Bostonian wears eyeglasses,
though her glance be like the eagles.
She is rather pale and slight and some
what stiff, with a deal of FIRE under that
covering of snow. A sentimentalist at
heart, she declares she hates sentiment,
and approaches you on the intellectual
plane. She talks science first, then
mental philosophy, then history, then
biography, then pure literature, then ro-
nance, and poetry last. But touching
poetry she dwells on it. 1t is plainly
her affinity. She thinks Emerson and
Holmes write better poetry than Shelley
or Tennyson, and believes one Of Bron-
son Aleott's verses spiritually beauti-
full.
If you speak of love aud men and
v-omen she is silent at the beginning,
but ere Tong out comes her heart his
tory, first yelled in generalities, and
then given in the grateful form of a con
fdence. The statue has melted. She
asks you if you think her foolish. You
assure her she is charming. She pro-
nounces you a fatterer, and her rising
color shows she believes you are fond OF
her. If you and she are alone, you
kiss her hand, OF her cheek, or her lips
all of them perhaps-and you 90 away,
10 forget her before you sleep. She, de-
VOID creature, remembers you until the
mex morning.
The Baltimorean is self-conseious,
vain, egotistic, eomplacent. She doesn't
like Northern men, she tells you fondly,
and adds she is sorry you are from this
side of Mason and Dixon's line. Sheis
a genuine coquette. She blows hot and
cold is hattering and sotirical. You
are on the eve of going away from her.
when she says {" Forgive me, and holds
out her little hand, which you cannot re-
fuse, so long as it is not given in mar
rage. The second hour is very differ
emit from the first, and the third from
the second, and the fourth you fancy
YOU have known her six months. All
this, of course, if you are sympathetic
with her and the others for the SUI and
the moon are not more opposite than q