The Republican journal., 1869-01-21

I4t. al tl4tTle y SFGt4'I writer. VINO
Gently visited ihs country, and apparently
..nio,lc1 nunsnal facilities for stlldvino the
character, and life Of the people. has pub
rshaa some notes of travel. under the title
NJ, GLOW tEioes are In America" The
tllawlno extract embodies his impressions
.i tb. chnirpet n,rt oftbe nation; lis beauty
...l ,auth
ill., Amlr,.o ladies. laws be, agreeably
.i...Tnoiot.d me They are hv no means
... tr,- bo,.; aonuIsr. dIsaoreeahly indie
n..,d4ui. ,trong-minded women they are
nau. Js-,rihed Here and there no donbt
....., and , few of tlis stamn TRAVELLING
.,. ty.,. connt,y yon occasionallv encoun-
..rsIady Who lectires or breaches. or edits
,.,,-s,.a,a, ar flts d professional chair q,
It... . raonlar rractica A. a nbvsician Rut
+--o. .,.sos az. ,,a,,, f,w ANA far botvaan-
..... ..o,.t.. IL, ,,,.ot.. .,...1, Ande1e tbev
.,., ,..,.,. .4t,.u ,s ., ~r,fch doctor in Mass
...l,.ett- d.sc,;hn,I tl,om. ..stjcIot women -
Jl,,, A,,oriran fe,naIes .. . rul4 are inst as
,so.la as .,n5 a. In,eiv. as acreeabIe and
NJ. o4acfiouata as our avn. Their lowell.
M li4a,ant tyna-ooler and noro
.-Ierpal A beautiful Canadian or Ameri-
.li.. qirl come. nearer the popular idea of
..o .,Doel tban apv hemo ever bebeld ont
~ Greenland Pale features Of exonisite
-vnmetrv. delicately pure commission.
ever radiant with iutellleence. a Gobt,
..ra. atnl often traoile form -tbi4 is the
,,.,o, ut loyeliness tb,t meets the eva in
al,oosf tyery American drawino room l
...,-.,. .o,, dnr;no ali nv litA haf0rn ca MANY
+...,,, arms which it wonld have snrnr;sed
,,.. les a., .aa sI,.,t,f.. emit WINGS and Aoat
,,,. AHA tha r,orvr..,u
American pirjs. however. are too gro.,oL
I. male and thin. and what is worse. are
Generally foo pale and thin. Every other
lace 4nooc-t- delicacy ana dvspepsia : and
oie does not like TO think of angels as dys-
.ueltic. The American girls | thank. are
aeryn,5 about their thiupess. and anxious
TO get ,tomer, tor they are constantly having
themselves weighed, and every ounce of in-
rea7e hailed with delight, and talked
about with HE most dreadful plainness of
speech. asked one beautiful Connecticut
4l whom met in Pennsylvania, how she
liked the change.
80. immensely ! she said II have
emned eighteen pounds in flesh since last
April.
This was not vulgar GIRL. On the con
irary7 size Waa educated and refined, and
would probably have been shocked at some
expression that are not considered ladell-
cate here.
Stll il sounds very odd TO n stranger.
Every glfl knows ber own weight to within
dn ounce oi two, and IS ready to give II you
II moment notice. II seems to be a
-ubIeet OF universal interest. One OF the
hrat things done with a baby when 1t Is born
TO hurry II into Il pair OF scales and have
H. weight duly registered. 1t continues to
be weighed at short intervals all through
t9 childhood, aud on to the time when the
question becomes one vi personal interest,
and 1t Is oid enough TO weigh itself
But TO return to the complexiou. This
paleness in the American Girls. THOUGH often
beautiful, is too universal an eye from the
old country begins to LONG for a rosy cheek.
Lowell said that color was a thine Of eli.
mate, and that should find plenty of ROSY
checks among the mountains of Maine,
where there IA more moisture in the air,
It may be So; never got to the Maine
mountains to see. But as far as nv obser-
sation went, | never saw any either on
mountain or valley in any part OF New
England Ny private impression is, making
all allowance for the influence of drv air,
that the peculiar paleuess of the New Eng
land airls connects itself with too much
metaphysics. hot bread and pie. Not to
speak OF mere paleneas. do not see how
lbe Americans r,,p rncouc;Ia # with thai,
notion of what j. ,lu,.to the laws of n,tura
to live to the age they do, considering the
amount OF ple tley eaI, and the rapidity witt
which they eat il. ! don't remember tha
ever ~lt down to dinner in America, eye1
in poor man hor,oe without inding pie
Of some kind often Of several kinds
the table and without finding that every
body partook OF it, down to the microscope,
lady OF gentleman whom we should call the
baby. Pie is indispensable. Take any
thing away, but leave pie. Americans car
stand the prohibition of all Intoxicating
drinks but attempt to prohibit pie, and yol