Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-05-01
American Women.


To express the precise nature of u-
difference between American and En-
fish ladies is extremely hard-is is some.
thing too subtle to.be represented by a-y
combination of epithets. You are sgl
sible of a sort of charm which is want
ing here you do not know which .
more to be desired, but you doubt The
possibility of combining them. Amer
can girls are certainly more indepenler
than ours; more accustomed 10 tass
care of themselves not less really o.
nestle in their hearts, but less tied /,
their mothers apron strings; franker u
their speech, and more ready to tell You
about themselves, their circumstance
their families. There is a kind Ct
French rer0e and force about them. bi
there is also a Teutonic truthfulne
Then there is q nimbleness and yeTss 81.
ty of mind, as well as a self-pOss .- -.-
of manner, which puts a stTanP n.
ease from the first. Where = II - 9. q
girl throws the weight of . III oc -
ton on her partner, aP -. a. 49,, -.
takes it up, draws r - en- a,-t ~ - =.
chates hin1 IN a ger ial fashion. and "a,
pres her opln' on freely on all TIE
topics that tefD up. English ladies Of
the ola schSso would be apt 10 dlsar-
prove OF h' r on slight acquaintanc
But, Whep they come to know her BET
ter, they would perceive that she is is
essenlr i matters, decorous as well S.
reflne d. American ladies who have
mix ed in fashionable society.in London
MY often be heard to say that they ar
. stonished at the quantity Of Scan-l
] they hear talked there and il Is ce'.
tainly true that one hears very little 10
America. In such places as New Io-5
and Chicago there are, of course fas
sets, just as there are in London and
| Liverpool. But in point Of purity and
| real moral elevation the best society u
America is possibly superior, and al any
| rate equal, to that of our own upper
classes; while the American middle
class is certainly more cultivated, more
interested in the ''things of the mind,
than the commercial class IN England
Looking at the matter simply as 8
! question of human enjoyment, the Sue
/ cess of the American system may tt
pronounced complete. It makes q staic,
| middle-aged man long to have his youth
| to live over again, to see the bright
CHEEKY, hearty, simple ways Of the young
people whom he meets straying on TIE
sands at Newport, or picnicing beside
the water falls of the White Mountains
safe in their own innocence, meeting
one another on the natural footing Gi
human creatures, without affectatiOns O.
inuendo on the one side, or prudsry On
the other. Little overtures and COquei-
ries there may sometimes be, but il
all, as the attorneys say, ''withf ID
prejudice. Such pleasure in the $ ris
ty of people of ones own age, .gbic.
no moralist can deny TO be one If nm
most legitimate sources of eDjo' ,nent.
in England a good deal cramT ID Inv tb
restrictions which custom b. q innosei
and good deal clouded By The i5es. :.
often present 10 the Eng ,,sb youth. a
cousins gossiping and p, rents inouiriD.
INTO mo what the JargoD of society call
intentions. A ma j may walk Wit
SO much wariness or 81 much homes
simplicity as to a yoid this last horror
ou' ~ pLuaenee ill prevent any inter
90 mniCn Ae ~ Jws in a lady, or Wh.lcL
= lazy anUMs' him Though in this iat
t ~ 0dsS tno inference is really raina
. .he o'hsI way,) from becoming ID;
t tnenle VI ak among acquaintance, an.
however heartily he may despise il ioi
nliIlseiL he feels il acutely for the oiDei
party, whom it may injure in mere
Mays than one. Nothing is conmonei
tia' for the friendship of two people
SIT Iple and natural friendship Whlcli
yves them pleasure while il lasts, ana
might possibly ripen into something bel
! ter still-to be interrupted by the idle
gossip of outsiders, which, coming 70
their ears, causes one or both 10 breaA
off the intimacy, lest any misunderstano,,
ing should arise. II may be foolish Of
them--very likely it is, for gossip Is one
ofthose things which people should learn
to despise-but there is nothing a sens-
BILE mind breads more than the impuls-
ton of exposing another person 10 blame
and misconstruction, still more OF
wounding her feelings. Now, in Amer
lea, people do not talk in this fashion
about their neighbors or, if they 90
nobody need regard them. Everything
passes as a matter of course under the
blessed name of friendship.-"On ne
Same PecuIio7'ities Of Society IN Amer
ca, " IN CornhiN Magazine.