The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-05


too much suppression and compression
This Is somewhat. singular, since they are
as q class, impulsiye, and even mercus1ai,
perhaps from the fact that those who lay
claim to birth and blood-and there are Few
who do not-belieye themselves DESCENDED
from Hucuenot families. This French eh-
traction f. as famous In Charleston as may
flower origin Is In Boston, and Is not unlrG i
ouently, suspect, quite as pro6ltemaES.uvr..n,'
But the genuine feminine types OF tne o
linian metropolis, like those OF hict'lio1 NJ
Mobile, New Orleans, and nearly ~ " tue
Southern States, are hardly recof an ,as
wrought, and to speak OF them LII Tue pres
cnt is q palpable anachronlsm.
There is one exception, however, and
that is the women of Kentucky, as repre-
scented in
They are decidedly southern, and have
ca little in common with the North, that
nersons who have lived this side of Mason
mud Dixon's line have difficulty in under
standing them. The Louisville belle is Pc
culiar in more ways than one. With bet
ter and finer physique than most OF her
American sisters, she has superb seit-con-
fidence and independence that few of her sex
attain. She is warm-hearted, romantic. ex-
tremely sentimental, and, at the same time,
clear-headed, sensible and sincere. She has
| keen relish for pleasure, and pursues 1t with
discrimination through all her days, every
one of which she regards as golden. She
| would be thought rather outre in the East
and bizarre in Europe. But on her own
soil she is appreciated, and in consequence
greatly admired. Most men regard her as
| handsome and interesting; and as she SO
regards herself, there is al point OF sympathy
| to begin with which is prone to develop
| into /. desperate but harmless hlrtatlon.
She rejoices in conquest, and yet becomes
the victim of her victims when they turn to
her for pity and reveal their sentimental
wounds. She is socially ambitious, and
when She has had steamboat named in her
honor her measure of fame is so complete
that she sheds tears Of eternal gratitude,
and is willing to depart iRpeace. The Wo'
men Of
| CINCINNATI, st. LOUIS, AND CHICAGO
are regarded here for the most part as on.
shoots of eastern stock, grown somewhat
wild and over-luxuriant by transpIantlnS,
Still, they have a character and province OF
their own, The Cincinnatians are fhlia.
delDhians broadened and extended; Dul
they have more variety of comellness, and
woilld seem fairer than they do If the sooty
mir did not cover them like veil. They
have improved Of late years in grace and
stvlc, and have at present beauty ana
suavity Of their own. ~,
st. Louis, too, is tending upward in the
direction of feminine loneliness, Many OF
ithe descendants Of her old Creole families
have an affluencc of personal charm which
sayors of the tropics while in the present
and rising generation can be detected those
sweet and pcnsvc American faces when
are recognized and remembered all over the
world. o,..o = Nor,,
York cxaoocrated In endcavOrlng TO out
do the bellies of Gotham, Chicago is IN dam
ger of crossing the line dividing attractive
ness from extravaganza, ana OF presenting
us with specimens which would be charm-
ing if they were not in excess. hGlno'iIS
daughters of the Garden city, they present
fine facts and figures to the radiant Gay,
land TO the splcndorS of their evening s0cla-
hlcs. The semi burbarous opulcnce OF hcr
women will be reduced with greater age,
| and reach the more conventional stanuaru
which we of the East not unprctendlngly
mt forward as the only proper one ana
true.
| IN GENERAL,
every wear American beauty is becoming
finer and more conspicuous, with higher
and broader claims to universal recognl-
| ton. It increases and develops with our
extension and resources; and, backed oy
two or three centuries more, it will have no
peer among the nations. believe that in
| The future the American type Of beauty
will be what the Grecian type has been in
the past. predict that as women to-day,
and here, are lovelier in person, character,
aud mind than they have ever been, they
will in the-agcs to come SO trench upon the
ideal that poets Of the Old World VIII eN-
hallst description, and express the highest
by saying: "She is beautiful as an Amerl-
can. '-Jursus II. Br0rn, an the January
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