Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-04
WHAT GIRLs ARE ABROAD.
THE AMERICAN GIRL


There Is no country in the world where
there are more glorious girls, more love
/ ~ girls, than are TO be found in this
reaml Of the American eagle, but when
you want TO find any Of these genuine
and mueh-tO-be-s0ught-sfter specimens
| Of femininity you must not 20 into the
ranks Of so-ealled society upon your
| quest. The girl Of the period TO be found
/ In such circles is not the girl you will
/ desire 10 take home and make wife Of.
/ Too frequently she is told at her birth
| that she must be "smart''-she knows
that means "pert, 4" and becomes 50. At
ten she Is a woman, wiser and worse
than her grandmother at twenty. she
has her beaux and furbelows, frizzes,
flowers, frenzies, fun, folly, fr0lic, teints
and faints, falsity, fanfaronaoe, fanta-
sizes and IN fact all the rs but tat. As
soon as she Is able to walk the streets,
the leather is whitfield sharp at the toes,
a spike is stuck at the toes, a spike is
stuck at the other end for a heel, cam
el hump is secured at the base Of her spi-
nal column, her heart, lungs and liver
are tied up in corsets, flesh baTricades Of
bone and steel, and she Is sent out TO the
world. She goes to school, eats slate
pencils and absorbs arsenic, poisoning
her stomach and stunning her senses
The cOrsets squeeze the breath out of her
lungs, and the heels send the blood to
her head She fiirts with the boys and
young men before nature has informed
her that there are sexes. During school
hours she may be in her seat or she may
be out Of it; the teacher does not al
ways know. Out OF school hours she
goes where she pleases, sees whom she
pleases, does what she or somebody else
pleases, says what she pleases, visits
DR.. Huston, perhaps, or the den Of his
negro servant Frequently, the Lord
only knows how frequently, sO-called
fashionable mothers seem perfectly
willing that their daughters should go
to the bottomless pit, by the license
they give them to go where they like. |
If the mothers of the scores Of girls now
before the courts Of the country as plain |
tiffs or defendents in criminal cases had |
only known where their daughters were |
when they were with their betrayers, |
the criminal cases would probably have |
never appeared on the dOckets. The |
smartness Of this species Of girl is her
Satan. If she have a pretty face she is |
in danger of becoming somebody's play |
thing. Ifshe have not pretty face, she |
proceeds to daub her cheeks, burn her |
hair, tint her lips, paint her nails, shade |
her eyebrows, and gasp that she may |
draw her corsets tighter. Then she be- |
gins to learn the trade Of the adventur-
ess. She becomes a fraud, internally /
and externally. She looks with lofty 1
contempt at the honest working girl 1
who earns her bread in honor and ia /
virtue; but she begins to draw money 4
for herself from the banks in which she 4
has no deposits. In time, this goes to /
Europe, and becomes the mOrganaic /
wife of Victor Emanuel, as did -, or I
ofa Bavarian baron, as does -. That's l
where the "smartness" Of modern so
ciety tends to lead most Of its votaries.
THE IRISH GIRL.
Talking about girls, it will perhaps be
in order TO allow an Irish enthusiast to |
have little 20 say about the maids Of
Killarney and adjacent localities. He /
perhaps gushes-but then consider the /
Celt and the theme and you won't be
surprised.
The Irish girls character is made up
of two qualities, vivacity and tender |
ness. The Irish girl is the natural lover. |
She is the fawn Of the field and house; I
domestic, devout, candid, courageous, |
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apt to be philosophic. If belonging to |
the gentry, she receives somewhat the |
same education as the English girl, with |
the same thinness in the curriculum; |
but she win dash poetry into all the |
prosaics, and in bellies Jettres learn |
volume while the English girl studies a
page. The national schools are working |
a revolution among the women of the |
holier isle, and in sad political twilight |
are glimmering hundred DeStael and |
SperauZas whose sons and daughters |
viii blaze in the next generation. Mark |
the future Of the Irish girl She has fun 1
far beyond that Of the French; an i'm
sgination cleaning with figures, but /
memory moisteus them into melanchOl- |
ly; an ambition wide as the sea, willing |
to bear as many burdens as compelled to |
hold nearly as many dead, but narrowed |
BY the iron of traditional fear and the |
nearness Of English guns. The chastity |
of Diana is borne among her mountains, |
and il is a maxim among the Irish wO- |
men, sin part she is to blame that has /
been tried" The Irish girl is she who |
never had a change in the world. Poor, |
wretched, abused as a child by the saw
ageness of disappointed parents, sold |
when ready TO be a wife, more ignO- |
miniOus than Mary Powell to John Mil |
ton, miserable as mother, often sup
porting husband and children, but faith /
ful as Mary Powell was not, wearing |
out as the drudge Of a drunkard, but |
never standing before a divorce court to |
secure a dangerous, If a legal freedom; |
in sorrow, gay; in poverty, full of laugh |
ter; with tears and a rainbow smile |
through her own. She may envy, but |
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be Jealous, but chiefest other rselfrespect. |
The specimen we find in America is not |
always good Of the genus. She will |
falsify in friends behalf, but she will |
not slRnder OF betray 8, foe.
She Is the daughter Of the church, not |
always of the gods; and although not |
always divinely tall, is often divinely |
fair. Her harsher feelings are passionate |
in intensity and emotional to duration. |
Her devotion to her family never pales; |
the brightest gold and the sweetest words |
in Irish cabins to-day are sent by the |
white fingers ofthe Irish gifis in Amer |
ican WOrkrOOms. She is more devoted |
TO her father than to her child, and it |
NAV have been she that was in the mind |
Of Pope when he wrote:
Ne let the tender odice long engage
To rock the cradle OF reposing age,
With lenient arms extend a mothers breath, /
Make love OF smile and smooth the bed OF |
Explore the thought, explain the aching eye, |
And keep while one parent from the SKY.
Unlike the English girl, marriage |
with her is an accidental rather than an |
aim: she would as sOon be sister of |
charity as the mother Of the Gracchi. |
But if the altar lamp does not prove the |
magnet of her youth, she is very liable |
to fall madly in love, TO marry, and TO |
abide unto the bitter end. She loves for |
the better or worse; chiefly for worse. |
In physique she is unsurpassed, even in |
Arabia. Her feet are apt to be large, be- |
cause like Maud Muller, she rakes the |
meadows sweet with hay, but unlike |
Maud, digs turf in the bOgs and plants |
potatoes on the sunny hill but her |
hands are always small, and her fingers |
taper, and the nails are nearly pink.
She Is 50 vigorous, and her cOursing
blood so thoroughly inearDadine, that |
as medical records show, she can bear an |
elaeOischenent on twenty-fOur hours no |
tice, and be about her household |
again in forty-eight." And she neither |
kills her child before its birth nor feeds |
il by proxy after. She is the happiest |
and saddest, the strongest and tenderest !
woman on earth.
THE FRENCH GIRL.
All, here appears a quite different |