Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-12-28
English Children

The newborn English aristocrat receives as
sCon as born little bed with a ard mattress
IRON It's earliest age it is taken, warmly wrap
ped, into the fresh air. After the first year its
meals are reduced to three, and this rule is so
Interchangeable that 10 child thinks of requiring
anything more; and from this time its food is Of
rich mix, and bread and butter, and good meat.
After breakfast, ii remains several hours in the
open air, and then sleeps. The whole afternoon
Is passed outside. From earliest childhood the
children of the aristocracy wear short sleeves
and often the knee is left bare, though the ex,
tremities are clothed in the warmest manner.
AT hve years OF age they begin to dance. Never
are English children intrusted to the care OF
young nursery mad, but to an elderly, eXpe-
rienced person, under whose direction they con-
stantly are. As soon as the young girl goes to
school, the carriage of the head and shoulders
becomes an object Of attention, and under no
circumstances Is she permitted to sit otherwise
than upright. "My child grows but once"
says an English mother, land therefore nothing
Is so important as her physical development.
Everything else can be acquired later" An
English child rises a. seven, breakfasts at
eight, dimes at one, sups at seven, and at nine
they pass the greater part of the day in the open
ar, with only about four hours mental work.
The Young English aristocratic maiden dimes
hrst with her parents at eighteen years of age,
when she leaves school and makes her debut in
society. She is fresh and blooming as a rose.
with light step and eyes beaming with pleasure
and life. Her frequent laugh displays her beau
tiful teeth, and her hair is rich and abundant
Here, for the first time, fashionable Violet dis
plays the fine fulness OF her contour. London
possesses noble museums, galleries of art, and
charming of its sights may be seen on fine after
moons in Hyde Park-crowds of children mer-
rily playing, earthly angels OF incompatible
beauty. A sight equally interesting may be
witnessed after service on Sunday at the Found
ling Hosptal-several hundred children, rang
ing from i've to thirteen years Of age, Of the
most noble physique and absolutely bswildering
beauty. Two OF the most wonderful sights OF
Europe are the children OF England and the
flowers Of Paris. Both appear to have descended
from paradise, and scarcely to belong to earth.
Nowhere else are seen such blooming maidens
and children as In England. OF course the life
OF gay society undermines to some extent VIII at
the early training has accomplished; but the
sensible physical education of the first years
leaves permanent effects, and the English
woman remains equal to the duties OF life
and the requirements of wife and mother. If
she does not continue perfectly well, she re-
tains enough health to be ever beautiful.
One sees in Great Britain ladies of sixty with
compilations fairer than those of our youngest
msidens, and whose hair, though slightly sill
yered, is yet abundant and handsome. Just as
by the Greeks every trouble was taken to reach
the highest beauty, SO too with the English
aristocracy. Many artists who have pilgrim
aged half over the world assure us that the
daughters OF Albion surpass all Others in per-
lection OF phsique. Even in Europe the women
OF the best classes are not healthy as the men,
except perhaps In England. DR.. Book, pro-
fessOr OF pathological anatomy at the university
OF Leipsic, says: "A healthy man is a rarity; a
healthy woman apparently does not exist
Yet 1t is possible that women may be and are,
when they have the same training, As strong
men. take this position boldly. In England,
even with the disadvantages of female dress,
and where their physical education, though
superior to that of any other country is still IN
ferior to that of the males, the women of the
best classes appear to be as strong as the men
OF the same rank, for we must not compare the
women OF one class with the men of another
Who doubts this, let him station himself at the
fashionable hours in Hyde Park and see on
horseback or promenading these incompatible
women.-FroBa "Lre Americans Less Healthy
1dn Earopedns7" in November GALAXY.