The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-27
THE IRISH GIRT.

- O ~ 1911 gil - Gue natural TOmp, so il
she natural lover. She is the fawn OF
the field and the house domestic, deyout
dandld courageous, superstitious, senti
mental, filial, and apt to be philosophic
Ii belonging to the gentry, she receives
somewhat the same education as the
English girl, with the same thInness il
the curriculum; but she will dash poetry
into all the prosaics and in bellies Zejtge
learn volume. while the English cir
studies page. The national schools are
working a revolution among the womer
OF the holler isle; and in D sad potitica
twilight are glimmering hundred De
S.aels and Speranzas whose sons and
daughters will blaze in the next genera
ton. Mark the future of the native Irst
girl! She has fun far beyond that O
the French; an Imagination cleaning
with figures, but memory moistens then
into melancholy: an ambition wide a.
the sea, willing to bear as many burdens
and compelled to hold nearly as many
dead, but narrowed by the iron Of tradi-
tlonaL fear and the nearness of English
guns. The chastity of Diana Is born
among her mountains, and it is a MAXIM,
among lrishwomen, en- part she is To
blame that has been tried" The Irish
girl is she who has never had chance in
the world. Poor, wretched, abused as a
child by the savageness Of disappointed
parents, sold when ready to be a wife,
more. ignominiousiy than Mary Powell
to John Milton, miserable as a mother.
often supporting husband and children;
but faithful as Mary Powell was not
wearing out as the drudge Of drunkard,
but never standing before divorce court
to secure dangerous if legal freedom
IN sorrow,gay; in poverty, full of laughte
with tears for others tears and a rainbow
smile through her own. Sue may envy
but she is more likely to emulate; she
may be Jealous, but chiefest of her self
respect. The specimen we find III Ameri.
Ca is not always a good one of the genus.
She will falsify in a friends behalf; but
she will not SANDER or[betI8y foe
She is daughter Of the Church, not of
the Gods and although not always d.
yinely tall, is often divinely fair. Her
harsher feelings are passionate in intensi
! tyand emotional in duration. Her devo
ton to her family never pales the bright
est gold and the eWeetest words in Irish
cabins to day ere sent by white fingers OF
Irish girls In American work-rooms. She
is more devoted to her father than to her
child, and it may have been she that was
in the mind of Pope when he wrote
HMe, let the tender Office long engage
TO rock the cradle of reposng age,
With lenient arts eXtend mothers breath
Make languor smile and smooth the bed of
death /; a 10
Explore the thought, explain the asking
eye,
And keep awhile one parent from the sky
Unlike the English girl, marriage with
her is an accident rather than an aim she
would as soon be a sister of charity as the
mother of the Gracchi But if the altar
lamp does not prove the magnet of heI
youth, she is very liable to fall madly in
love, to marry, and to abide unto the blt
ter end. She loves for better or worse
chiefly for worse, In physique she is un
surpassed even Ia Arabia Her feet are
| apt to be large, because, like Maud Null
| Ter, she rakes the meadow 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 the
fingers taper and the nails pearly pink
She is so vigorous and her coursing
blood 50 thoroughly incarnadine, that as
medical records show, &C he can bear an
dccoucbement on twenty-four hours notice
and be about her household again in
forty eight" And she neither kills her
! child before It's birth nor feeds it by
proxy after. She is the happiest and
saddest, the strongest and the tendcrest
woman on earth. #4I e<##
THE FRENCH GIRL.
The electric woman. She constantly
desires to evapOrate, to fly, to be dissi-
pated, to float in the very air, to waste
herself away In the ecstacy of excitement
Her volatility is no more in her control
than the moon or the tides. God seems
to have made Frenchwomen's brains
nothing but occipital. The French girl
is cline by defect, and celicately weak. >
Reared according to Michelet, Es.@.
@Virtue she finds too painful an adevor,
Content to dwell in decencies forever.''
She is bold in her early youth. What
the poetof the male species could alone
have Written-that every woman is at
heart rake-and acts upon it till the
day of her death. She is wit; never a
humorist. A mere w 2man. She has
brtlliancy in conversation;anEng lishwom
an may keep a.hoteI ;But only French
woman can manage a salon "a grace of
courtesy outdoing the cavaliers of the
English Charles, she is a queen when an
Englishwoman would affect to be a co.
quette; q scholar where Saxon would
be a pedan5; a bold outliner of character
or a swift critic of facts where the En-
glishwoman would prove tame bluer
stocking. But she is all imaginative
never deliberative. Her emotions are her
inspiring angels her conscience relnorse
She'is the Vicoim of climate and race and
sex combined. To the public gaze her
faults are magniied, because, lacking in
a great degree what we mean by vanity