The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-05-18

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men. were ID not frr the memory NJ the
French women, y German, and y CzoCh.
Ent the latter three were rare exceptions
Beauty j. very much commoucr among
women VI the English race than amJng
tho.e NJ any other with which I am nc
quainted and among that race IL IL com
moner in America than in England. I
saw more beauty Of face and figure nj
the frsttwO receptions, which ! atten led
after my return than ! had found among
the hundreds Of thousands Of women
whom 7 had seen in England.
The types are the same in both cOun-
tries but they seem to come near 10 per-
faction much Oflencr here than there.
Beauty Of feature Is, however, some.
times more clearly defined in England
than here. The mouth in particular,
when it is beautiful, is mere statuesgue.
The curves are more decided, and at the
junction of the red OF the lips with The
white there is Il delicately red outline
which marks the form of the feature in q
very noble way. This may also be said
of the nOstril. 1t gives a Chiseled effect
to those features which is not so often
found in America but the nose itself,
the brow and the set and carriage of the
head are generally finer among Amcri-
cans. In both countries, however, the
head is apt to he too large for perfect
proportion. This is a characteristic de.
iect of the English type of beauty. Its
effect lis seen in Stothard's figures, in
EJty's, and in those of other English
painters. Another defect is in the
heaviness of the art~iculations. Really
fine arms are rare, but fine wrists are
still rarer. Such wrists as the the Wen
noise women have-of which ] saw a
wOnderfulexample in the Viennoise wife
of Sussex gentlemen--are almost UNI
known among women of English race in
either country. 1t is often said, ven in
I'ax1,-I @Int tn,o,nor np,o h,yn
more beautiful feet than English women
have. This | am inclined to doubt. The
feet may be smaller here, and they gener-
ally look smaller because English women
wear larger and heavier shoes. They are
obliged to do so because they walk more,
and because of their moister climate.
But mere smallness is not a beauty in a
foot more than in any other part OF the
body, 1t is said by some persons, who
by saying it profess to know, that nature,
prOdigal of charms to English women in
bust, shoulders and arms, is chary of
them elsewhere, and that their beauty of
figure is apt to stop at the waist. Upon
this point do not venture to give an
opinion; but am inclined to doubt the
judgment in question upon general
physiological principles. The human
figure is the development of a germ and
it is not natural that, whatever may be
the case with individuals, the type of a
whole race in one country should present
this inconsistency. Possibly those who
started this notion were unfortunate in
their occasions of observation and com
parison.
Much has been said about the COM
plexion of the women of England, which
has been greatly praised. ! have not
found it exceptionally beautiful. 1t is
often fresh, oltener ruddy, but still
oitener coarse. A delicate, tin~cly-grad-
uated bloom is not m The rosy
cheeks when looked at closely are often
streaked with fine lines and notified with
minute spots of red and the white is
still oftener not like that of a lily, or,
better, of a white rose, but of some much
cOarser object in nature. 1t is true that
in making these edious comparisons |
cannot forget certain women, too COM
mon in America, who seems to be COM
posed in equal parts of mind and leather,
the elements of body and soul being left
out so far as is consistent with existence
IN human form. But such women are
also to be found in England, although
perhaps in fewer numbers than here.
As to dress, that, as a man, | must re-
gard as a purely adveptitious and an es-
sentially u%nimrortant matter. | feel,
therefore, that | am saying very little
against. English women, when | say
that, in general, they are the worst.
dressed human creatures that | ever saw,
except, perhaps, the female half of a
certain class of Germans. The reputa-
ton that they have in this respect among
French women and Americans is richly
deserved. Good taste is simply absent.
The notion OF fitness, congruity aud
confederation accordingly" does not
exist. In form, the English woman's
dress is dowdy, in color, frightful. If
not color-blind, she seems generally to be
blind to the effect of color, either singly
or in combination. AT the Birmingham
festival | saw a lady in a rich, red-pur-
pie (plum COLOR silk-high around the
neck of course, as it was morniug-and
over this swept a necklace of enorm aus
c)ral beads. 1t made ones eyes ache to
look at her. This was not uncommon,
bit a characteristic instance. Such CON
binations may be justly regarded as
the rule in English women's dress. For
purple they have strong liking. They
not only wear it in gowns, but they
use it for trimming, in bands and
flounces, in ribbons, in feathers. They
combine it with all other colors. An
English woman seems to think herself
"made" it she can deck herself in some
way with purple or silk velvet, or rib
bons or feathers. OF course | am ex
cepting frum these remarks a few who
have intuitive good taste, and other few
who onploy Eranob ,an1;ato. o,J ,rI,