The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-27
GIRLS.
ENGLIsH-I sH-FRENCH-AND AMERI-
CAN.
From the Chicago Pest.

From the Chicago Pest.
THE ENGLISH GIRL.
She is born according to Saint Paul, a
subject woman and reared, &C cordlng 20
Lord Lyttleton, constructed by Lady Mary
M6ntagu:
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet =
In short. my deary, kiss me and be quiet.
Unlike the French girl and American
young lady, she actually continues a girl,
if not mere child, until seventeen or
eighteen, when the state Of the family
finances compels her calculating father or
mother or brother or guardian to cast
about for her future husband During
her childhood she is not huddled off 70 a
garish American boarding school, where
she learns all tho vices and few of the
virtues; nor to French convent seminary,
where she will indeed acquire modesty,
and, IN acquiring it, "brush with extreme
|flounce the circle of the sciences" like
Aurora Leigh, only to come out with
modesty and music, and slight grace
OF speech. The English girl is kept at
nome taught by genteel governess,
herself but poorly taught; and learns a
little OF grammar, of French, of geog-a-
ply, of liistory-but none of its philoso-
ply. To the plainest reading and the
gentlest writing, the favorite adjectives
being lovely" with the exclamation
Ipo1nt, sweet " IN italics, and "dear ]"
with an implied caress, the same that is
given TO q poo le,-she has drawn ."cos-
tunes frs. w.e. ..1-as So
From French engravpgs, nereids neatly
draped, DFs
With smirks of smmering gooship, : wash
ed in = .'t"
From nature, landscapes Gather say wash
ed out,) danced the polka and
Cellarius, ..... re
Spun glass, stuffed birds, and nodded fow-
ersSin wax"
She reads books, as E. B. B. has writ
ten,to show hat women may teach think
ling, provided she do not think at all
books demonstrating a''woman's right to
comprehend her husband talk when not
too deep, and even of answering with
pretty may it please you or so it is and
never mo- when the world says aye for
that is fatal" She is taught the poten
tial faculty, Of abdicating power, and in
the fullness of the abdication, English
women are models to the universe. An
IEngliShman writing in recent periodi-
! cal, says the Engl women, with hardly
an exception, 6 copy the business letters
Eof their husbands, fathers, or brothers :;
attend infinitely to the wants of the poor
around them, and then take part in their
amusements and sympathise with their
sorrows visit and superintend the schools;
work in their own gardens see to their
own gardens see to their household con-
Germs; think about their visitors look
over the weekly accounts, no. only do
mestic expenses, but often those of the
farm and estate; manage penny clubs in
conjunction with the working classes, to
help them to keep themselves and with
all these occupations, by early hours, they
keep up their acquaintance with the lit
erature and politics OF the day, and cul-
tivate the accomplishments OF music and
drawing, and often acquire, besides, some
knowledge Of scientific pursuits.
None out an Englishman would be
guilty of thus mistaking vanity for truth.
The writer's errors consist, stated most
charitably, in assuming the exceptions to
be the class, and the class to be the ex-
ceptions. A few hundred women In the
larger cities, like Miss Garrett, Of the
London School Board, are capable Of do
ing what this English programme, indi
Gates. But the great mass of English
women are not given education. enough
even to copy business letters, without
danger Of making them nonsense; they
have no taste for scientific pursuits, which
are to them Greek in double sense !;
they do mingle with the poor as in exer
else OF patronage and an indulgence of
mi u sY,Aa
literature and politics Of the day consists
in reading Anthony Trollpc and listening
to their fathers domestic TRADE against
a Parliame privilege. Little as the
American woman knows about the con,
stitUtlon of the United States,-and she
rarely knows anything-the English WON
an knows less about the constitution of
Great Britain. She is apt to believe that
Magma CbGTtG was voluntary gift Of
Queen Victoria, and that there was no
Church in existance prior to Henry the
Eighth But physically, and, alas! shall
We not have to admit, morally ?-she is
the superior of the American woman. In
her yoqth the English girl is given plain
food, she does not become dyspeptic );
plenty Of ail--she retains her natural
bust, and her sternum curves, over vital
organs glowing with health and rollick-
ing in vlgor; abundant exercise-her1
muscles are plump without. being adipose,
and the synovia in her joints gives 1.-the
ness Of limb and freedom of vertebrae
She is straight, supple, strong--a Venus
|deMedici, somewhat more heavily fleshed.
Her cheeks are red her haiyysilken; her
voice sonorous rather than sweet the
.carmine of health, not Of mutton, on her
lips; a CLEAN of virginia. beauty, not of
belladonna' in her eye the roundness Of
nnaidenhood, not of the mantua maker, in
her. bosom. She walks we'll because her
shoes are, thick in the sole and low in the |
heel, and she walks straight because dia-
phragm isfree and healthy. She carries ar