, 1874-12-13

| drive reminds ono OF hlculEal asehuo' VI iast
ar suggests to ones fancy Michigan avenue as
! Il would be, with it's blue lako sparkling upon
nna aide, we're it twice as wide as it is. and bor-
! dcred upon the other With palace after palace:
| whose white walls CLEAN in the sunlight as II
| the palatial architecture OF Florence and Genoa
had brought the radiance Of the Italian day
| with it to tho borders of Lake Michigan, This
drive is miles in length, and, between and
O'Clock on fine afternoon during tho fashton-
! able season. il the scene OF the ....
GRASDE5T PoAP AND CIRCUMSTANCES
Of English fashionable llfe.-the theatrical stage
| upon which arc arranged all the characters. en-
acted in ftagmentary episodes AL the HISTORIES
and displays all the spendors, Elusive and real,
fashionable seaeon Is at its giddeat height, and
the Pier, in the morning. from II to 2, and tho
| magnificent Kings Road, from to 3 in tue
afternoon, furnish better opportunity TO tho
beauty, style. and peculiarities Of tho ahiona-
bic English women, than could be found elee-
whero III the Kingdom. -,
Tho routine Of life is nearly the same for all
visitors in Brighton. In tho morning. after, the
o'clock breakfast, and after tho gentlemen have
read their papers, and the ladies' have achieved
lovely 1norning-tolettes, the whole fashionable
populace go out to sauuter down to tho Pier, or
to walk to aud fro upon the Esl!ansde.
UPON TUE PIER.
the military band plays every morning, and hero
the crowd is thicker, tho costumes are more
elegant and costly, the beauty more noticeable,
than anywhere clso in ait Brighton. Here VIC
Ames1cans 80 eaI4y tuat w may seeuto esa's a1'
under the FOOL WHICH, euel'eie PotsAon ~ tu1 ~
We weary Of the bright scone before us.
AND here It 1s tnat We nave eeen uiss'pateu ~
many OF tile 1allacloa tnas We oiouent Tnu 40
from our % own country couce1n1ng % tue Ensnsn l'n
laales. ihe nIse one 'uas ! 4es' III I1 ~ aa ~
many lns.ra o. our 1elnlnlno i,
lives, the one that cheered US in our toileome
journey acros8 Tue sea,-tno one 1nat Has u
brilliant light OF promise 70 US Wnen ous sh1es
we're dark. and our 1aces green WIN sea-schncss,
tho ono that al EuEiisn women nave loVeIy
comple1lons, ono tnaI Ine nulnlu 1ne,lsn cAluato
has some magic a1l 10 lasten iaaetess 1oso
upon the cheek, 10 piant s ytv'9sy-n -nooInlnG niI
a'nataon upon tno ups; ~ no4u y! peleun'1.
flower the !1lg OF Tue EnGnsn chin "nu olo"- ~
was "ohueltu etAoi' .s VI ~na a7 uan
not cease lfon our su1p1'se-aS W. Ea1o nton
the many ..----
THICK ANn p1Sus 10y: coArLhaloss ,nlIts,s4 aa.;.
ABOUT u.s. anu s.n1'o NJ 1na IT,. os
tho lilies from tue poHder-oo3 anu roses u from tne
carmne-pot, whioh n1ossoh upon nlo'e tnah uali
the faces about us-that tue tonanco ever Eeacu-
cd us beyond the sea; u u true Iha1 mere arc
many oazznne conlple11ous III Euslhi1u,-1G,oln- 1,
p!exions when thelr o"neIe carry VIII taean
farther down tue decline OF NE man 90 our
American beauties nut 1t IL also true tnat Tadl-
ant complexlons are 1no e1ceplson. not tue !ulo,
even among those who cialtn monopoIy o1
beauty in England,-the upper elasscs anu that,
for one faee where roae and hly meet, We SEQ
dozens where cheek, CUM, and o1oW' are Of sucn
neutral tnts that their owners eriaentlT regard
them az furnishing onlg pacASToanu 1or art1st-
ic creations OF artificial Color Ihere Is O per-
feet
!. RIOT or FALSE COLOR
among the fashionable of Brighton !; and. On the
faces OF the maids and maifons WHO Alrt and
gossip away The sunny mornings to tile swell
ing strains Of martial music not only is
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