The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-12-02
AMERICAN WOMEN.
Views Of n Foreign Tourist.

DaylQ MaCfde, k9CWtiSH Whit VINO re-
Gently visited this country, and apparent.
enjoyed unusual facilities for studying the
character and life of the people, has pub
llshed some notes OF travel, under the title
of How things are IN America. The
following extract embndies hls impressions
of the choicest part Of the nation its beau-
ty and youth. The American ladies', says
he, agreeably disappointed me. They are
BY no means The dry, hard, angu,ar, dsa
greeably independent, strnng. m'ndcd wo>
rhen they arr often described Here and
there NJ doubt you find few OF this stamp.
Travelling over the country. you OCCASION
ally encounter a lady who lectures, or
breaches, or edits newspaper, or fills a
professional chair, or has regular practice
as physician. But tie cases are very few
and far bctween--,uri nantes IN gurg,te r0s-
to. And even they are very ofteu,. a. a
Scotch doctor in Massachusetts described
them, ''sticka women" But American fe-
males as rule ore just as gentle, as kind,
as lovely, as agreeable, and as affectionate
as our own. Their loveliness is of differ
ent type-raier and more ethereal. A
beautiful Canadian or American girl comes
nearer the popular idea of an angel than
anv heinz ever beheld out of dreainland.
Pale features. Of exquisite symmetry, del
icately pure complexion, eyes radiant with
intelligence. u slight, graceful, often fragile
form4--this is the vision OF lovcliress that
meets the eye in almost every American
drawing g-roon. never saw during all my
life before 10 many iairy forms, which it
would lave surprised me less to see shoots
ing out wings and float up into the empy-
reann
American girls. however, are too general
In pale and thin, ard what is worse, are
generally too pale and thin. Every other
fac,. suggests delcacy and dyspepsia, and
one does not like to think Of angels as dys
pr rptic. The American girls, think, are
nervous about their thnness, and anxious
to get stouter, for they are constantly hay
ing themselves weighed, and every ouhce
of increase Is hailed with delight, aud talks
ed about with the most dreadful plainness
Of speech. | asked one beautiful Connect
cut girl whom [ met in Pennsylvania, how
she liked the change.
20. immensely" she Said; II have gain
e1 eighteen pounds IN flesh since last
April"
This was NOT vulgar girl On the con-
trary. she was educated and refined, aud
would probably have been shuckcd at some
expressions that are not considered iDdcll
cate here
Still it sounds very odd to a stranger ---
Every girl knows her own weight to within
an ounce or two, and Is ready to give 1t to
you at a moments notice. 1t seems to b.
a subject Of universal interest. One Of the
first things done with ahaby when it is horn
is to hurry It into a pair Of scales and have
its weight duly registered. Ii continues to
be weighed at short intervals all through its
childhood, and on to the time when the
question becomes one Of the personal inter
ests, and it Is old enough to weigh itself:
But to return 70 the complexion This
paleness in the American girs, though of.
ten heautitul, is TOO universal; an eye from
the old country begins to long for a rosy
cheek. Lowell laid that should find plen-
" of rosy cheeks among the mountains of
Main, where there is moisture In the air.
1t may bs so; | never got to the Maine
mou, tains to see. But as far as my OBJ
servation went, never saw any either oa
mountain or valley in any part of New Eng
land My private. impression is, making
all allowance for the influence OF dry air.
that the peculiar paleness of the New Eng.
land girls connects itself with too much
metaphysics, hot bread and pie. / have
strong convictions on this subject of pie.
No. to speak OF mere paleness, don't see
how the Americans can reconcile it with
their notions Of what Is due to the laws Of
nature, to live to the age they do. consider
ing the amount of pie they eat, and the
rapidity with which they eat it. | don't
remember that | ever sat down to dinner 10
America, even in roor mans house, with
out finding PIE ofsome kid-of'en OF several
kinds--on the table; and without fnditg
that every body partook Of it, down to the
microscopic lady or gentleman whom We
should call the baby Pie is indispensable.
Take anything away, but leave pie. Ameri-
cans can stand the prohibition Of all In
toxicatng drinks; but attempt to prohibit
pie, and you would plunge America into re
vclution in day.
Then metaphysical In one family which
visited in the Connecticut vally, two of
the girls we,e deep in the study Of all ebra
and metaphysics, as voluntary exercise,
and shut themselves up for three hours a
dsy with Celenso. and Sir William Hanik