, 1874-06-21
WHAT AN ExASPERATED ENGlfSlIW0f1Ah
THINKS OF HER AMERICAN SISTERS.


appeared in your Sunday's issue, May a. 1s74,
On London women. from q woman signing her
self Bertha .Dayne." As you have given pub
1icty to the American side OF the question, it is
bat Justice to allow an English woman to reply
on tho English eide Of the question. have
waited, hoping this duty would bo undertaken By
ADLER hands. I an, surfeited with tho oft-re-
peated penny-a-liner's hash in American news
papers, OF Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathe-
dral, British Museum, etc. But B. D. has mixed
this stale story With sensational brag, and
''rushed where angels fear to tread, "
into tho domain of ankles, legs dtaped
in dinEy gray stockings, beauty and
taste; why did not q. D. take up her pen and
beard the lion in his den. when in London?
noed not trouble myself seriously about her
opinons on questions she has not mastered, md.
judging from her public uttorances, does no: yet
undarstand.
agree With B. D. that the English and Amori-
can women are diselmi1as in style. The former
people adopt what is practical, carlicr by three
months than the litter. Nature is always true
to herself. and the English woman has legs and
feet ADAPTED to carry her velghty, substantial
body. She ia not under the necessity of wearing
long gAiser-boots to enable her to r'ad her legs
into form. ''Those who lire in glass houses
Eaou!u Hot tnto" e1ohea' 1He !HHSeHous
women have decsred into gnunt shadovs when
compared With this Anglo-Saxon women in Eng
land, The Chicago croBs-breed ia known by her
long, cadavcrous. ssllow face. fiat chest. and mar
TO" nips. o9e1de1 VIII SO lntlcn iHtsc hoacssV rs
to subsntuta Amos lor legs, anu y 'stumm!cA 1or
belly.
b. D. claims that there In an inefrablo charm
OF fascination in American women, which is Eub-
jcct to no formula. and independent OF all nuay-
eis,-cis1si7e! Now, sir, can nnalyzo B. D. 8
problem, which consist. IN hauEhtv airs, vanity,
check. and that lneaable coocelt that knows no
bounds. d. DIS aerial dalntlness Of charm
means that beautiful faco which disappears
simultaneously WITH her ability to buy rouge aud
csrmine.
The English woman is humhne she il not
ea8iT led from tha "ell-Rnown nash OF dusF TO
her kind to initiate the example OF french women
IN limiting her ability to increase aud mnltl-
ply the earth. Those English families in Chi
cago who received relief thu past winter
have three children to the American families
two, who we're in receipt Of eifnilar relief. 1t
is an lncontrovertlble fact, TINT the largest num-
Der Of children are to be found among the
foreign-born populat1on. This is \ subject
worthy the Thoughtful consideration Of B. D.,
and is Of mich greater importance to the morals
of the community at large than the difference in
initiating French and American women. IN
draping their legs in white Or dlngv gray Rtock-
ings- "Pride eoetl before obstruction
There il widespread disincinatiou to phvRi-
cal exercise OF any kind amongst American
women. Thoir waat Of physical development
fits them for = tor rather thana helpmsto to their
husbands. WiraR are frosted AZ housekeepers
rather thau wives, in that they are not honored
in carving tho purse containing the wages
to purchase the nocessarles for household pur-
poses. Tho husband goes marketing to the
grocer, butcher, bakor. otc, or directs lis house,
keeDer to tho above places, With mamOraula-
books to obtain credit from month tn MONTH II