The Shasta courier., 1870-06-25
SHASTA COU RI Err.
WOman-Suffrage in England.

WOman-Suffrage i'm England.
While some are disposed to ridicule the
woman-sutrage movement In this country.
they should look towards England-en-
lightened, conservative England where a
hundred thousand British women present
their petition to the ancient Parliment for
the right Of suffrage Not the lower social
classes, not servant girls and chamber
maids and Ignorant peasant women, but
the wives and mothers and sisters of here
ditary lords and still nobler statesmen.
Can we claim higher civilization, great
er national refinement, than that venerable
monarchy of thousand years, which was
the centre of the worlds enlightment when
our now glorious America was one unbrok-
ell solitude of Paganism?
We are aware that the habits and stvle
of the English women are somewhat diff
terent from the usages prevailing with cor
responding classes in our own country
English women are stronger, healthier, take
more physical and rougher exercise, and
act with more innocent simplicity and free
dom. They indulge less in mock -modesty,
and act upon the motto of their great,
strong, overbearing and glorious nation
evil be to him who evil thinks"
They are not afraid of the contamination
of the hustings; and few years ago,
when John Stuart Mill was running for
Parliament, these haughtiest of the daugh-
ters of men turned out in swarms, drove
IN their carriages to the election polls,
stayed all day, and worked like beavers
Do you suppose that when they returned
to their mansions and castles, these British
ladies felt themselves degraded, or any
thing less noble than the proud descend
ants of Saxon and Norman conquerors,
whose terrible flag is never withdrawn
from the light of the sun? Do you think
that their lords looked askanee at and
were ashamed of their unfemiuine conduct?
Do you expect that the sedate and melan-
choly Queen shut the doors of Windsor
Castle upon these naughty girls, because
they had been "dabbling in the filthy pool
of politics %
Don't believe it Those were the white
browed, red-cheeked, voluptuous women
who give birth to heroes and sea kings
whose very great grapdmothers peopled
the "Mayhower," and gave to fame and
Immortality a Nelson, a Wellington, a Ba-
con, a Hamilton, Macaulay, Christie
pher North. Those were the friends and
household divinities of Golden and Bright
and Mill and Vincent, and of all the Eng
l;sh friends that America had in the times
of her dearest calamity-[S T. Pioneer
AMERICAN BEAUTY.-There are two
points in which it is seldom equalled, never
excelled-the classic chasteness and deli
cacy of the features, and the smallness
and exquisite symmetry of the extremities
In the latter respect, particularly, the
American ladies are singularly fortunate
| have seldom seen one, delicately brought
up, who did not have fine hand The
feet are also generally very small and ex
quisitely moulded, particularly those of
Maryland girl, who, well aware Of their
attractiveness, has thousand little ways of
her own of tenptingly exhibiting them.
That in which the American women are
most deficient is in roundness of figure.
But it is a mistake to suppose that we'll
rounded forms can not be found in Amer
lea Whilst this is the characteristic of
English beauty, it is not so prominent
feature in America In New England, in
the mountainous districts of Pennsylvania
and Maryland, and in the central valley
of Virginia the female form is, generally
speaking, as well rounded and developed
as it is here; whilst New England COM
plexion is, il mae caes out of ten match
for an English one. This, however, can
not be said of the American women as
class. They are, in majority of cases,
over delicate and languid-a defect chiefly
superinduced by their want of exercise.
An English girl will go though as much
exercise in forenoon, without dreaming
of fatigue, as an American will in day
and be overcome by the exertion 1t is
also true that American is more evanes.
cent than English beauty, particularly in
the South. where it seems to fade ere it
has we'll bloomed But it is much more
lasting in the north and northeast-a re-
mark which will apply to the whole region
north of the Potomac and east of the lakes;
and | have known instances of Philadel-
phia beauty as lovely and enduring as any
that our own country produces.
A CERTAIN merchant in Montgomery,
Ala, recently hired new clerk, and of
course initiated him at once into the