Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-29
American Girls I'm Rome -FIfrtati0ns
I'm the Eternal City.
From the Correspondence N. Y. Times.l

From the Correspondence N. \. Times.J
A letter from Rome to a Paris paper
contains these paragraphs: The l7th
January there was splendid ball at the
Fishers. All America was there. Out
of twenty women, at the least eighteen
were fascinating BY the side of the
hostesses, who are blonde and pretty
girls, everybody admired brunette with
large and rather strange eyes-the rosy
pearl among all these other pearls. She
is known as the red rose, gracious
nickname for beauty, freshness, brill
liancy and distinction. The American
colony is very numerous in Rome.
There is something singular in this cur
rent which draws the children of Young
America to the capital of the old world.
1t almost seems as il Providence sent the
race of the future to rejuvenate the
race of the past, and to place youth and
hope near old souvenirs. Is the race of
Romulus, already once regenerated by
men of the North, destined to be unex-
pectedly crossed by the youngest and
most vivacious race OF the universe Z
What is the attraction which draws
women to Rome2 Some people say
they come to get titles should like to
know which is most honorable, to en-
deavor to become connected with noble
and old souvenirs or to sell ones title,
name, ancestors and descendants tor a
given amount of dollars. Notice this !:
The men who marry American girli
sometimes marry ugly girls; but yoi
cannot find one single American woma n
who has married man, not even q
Prince or Duke, who is an ugly fellow.
Look around you in Paris and you may
observe the same thing. Now, this pur-
suit of titles and handsome men engaged
in by American amazons Is a nobler and
healthier exercise than that in which
ruined mobiles are engaged who hnnt les
Miss Dollar. Rome is the city where
Irritation reigns as the favorite
sultana. 1t is not easy to airt success
fully with our libertines and worn-out
young fellows at Paris, on the macadam
of the boulevards, and in the Champs
Elysees. AT Rome the young men allow
themselves to be rolled like a cigarette
between two pretty American fingers.
More than one young Roman noble has
found out the day after his wedding that
be had made a love match. This dis
ceyery raised him in his own eyes, with
out, however, allowing him to raise his
ancestral palace. Here let me protest
against a prejudice against American
manners and customs. The education of
women in America is the same as in
England and in Germany, and therefore
is very superior to French education.
May the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and
my aunt in Heaven forgive me for this
luminous truth. know the most charm
ing hirtations to be had among the Amer
lean girls. But swear l know excellent
and very scandalous firtations whose
heroines are little French angels, who
nevertheless had the good fortune to try
their rosy wings under the maternal wing
of the very reverend mothers superior
of the Sacred Heart. Every good Ro-
man goes daily on the Pincio. Here
goes by Miss Conrad. She is an Ameri-
can, who is as proud as she is intelligent.
She is engaged to be married to Marquis
Theodoli. There comes the "Red Rose
This American walking on the grass is
the Figaro of all native or foreign bach
elors. He starts the game and carries
the billets- -doux. One evening he took
il into his head l was engaged to Re-
man princess. found him at the door,
with my oyercoat in his hand. As did
not know this exotic individual, l took
him for robber. Not bt of it, all he
wanted to do was to oblige me.