The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-04
The Young Men and Maidens OF
Merrie Eng land.

London Correspondence Chicago Times.
The average Briton OF The sterner sex,
and between certain ages, is the perfec'
ton of physical beauty in many respects.
Between eighteen and thirty, one finds
u class of men who have few equals and
no superiors. They are little above the
medium height, square at the shoulder,
broad and deep as to chest, with mighty
thighs, and swelling muscles a TO arm
and leg, witnessing no end OF devotion to
rowing, cricket, bicycling and other mus
Gle and health.glviug exercises II IS rs
good as looking a. fine picture TO see
one of these fellows walk. de mas long,
swinging stride; his swelling muscles, the
poise of his trunk his advanced chest
and the ease of his movement ali COM
bine to suggest power-a power ample,
for the work in hand, with further sug-
gestion rs to reserve available Tor any
imaginable purpose. His cheeks are
ruddy. his eve bright, his lips red, bis
cleaning teeth isultless. he sits horse
as II 8 part OF him, rising with an easy,
graceful motion as the animal trots, or rs
immovsble as rock when fyIug along
at swift gs!lop. In fine the British
youth is the
PERFECTION OF PHYSICAL MANHOOD,
as handsome as Apollo, rs strong as
Samson, as swift as al antelope, and as
enduring as IRON.
Prior TO this aye, ne is a callow,
shame faced youth, with enormous feet,
i'll fitting jackets, and aplug hat After
passing 80, he grows beefy and stout.
At 40 ne Is psunchy, with q nose that IS
growing bulbous At 80 he is short
winded; ne measures As around his
chest, and IS around his waist; his nose is
pitted and blooming MS strawberry the
top of his head is rs white, as cleaning
as q billiard ball, and he suffers from
twinges in his big toe, coming rom I'M
limited indulgence 10 port, sherry, cham
ps me, bitter beer, Bass ale Guinness,
mock, claret, and brandy and waterfall
of which he decants into himself At, or
about grand, daily examining per-
formance which he calls mis- dinner.
PLACE AUX DAMEsi
All mel most reverently do | approach
this topic, may add, most iearfulIy, and
most efficiently. 1t is delicate subject
to handle. In approaching II, invoke
10 my assistance the genius OF truth. Sink
the American, and appear the calm, un-
preiudiced observer!
From the time the British female
makes her debut IN baby wagon up to the
time she puts on long dresses, she Is the
most charming creature In existence.
She is generally blonde, with long,
abundant hair Streaming like yellow
cataract adown her back. Her eyes are
blue, and filled with All innocent light,
which, while saint.like, is yet heaIthluI,
and full of energy and Il pleasing, and
not immodest seIf-reiiaoce Her com
ple1ion is exquisite, her features delicate,
her ensemble pervsded with grace, health,
and beauty.
WHAT BECOMES OF THE BEAUTIEsi
What becomes OF these beautiful chill
dren, and these charming misses?
Heaven only knows. 1t would seem as
ifthey were annihilsted upon reachlngs
certain age. and that the species Is con-
tinued by special creation into which
there enter no elements of the preceding
Growth. Gone are the beautiful COM
plexions, gone the delicate features, gone
the sylph-like figures, gone the clear
innocence OF the eyes, gone every
thing characteristic of childhood and
girlhood. l have yet to see dozen en-
.irely pretty or wholly well dressed
young ladie, since my arrival in Eng
land Their breadth OF shoulder is mas
culine; their walk, although strong, Is
rarely graceful, and their taste in dress
often simply atrocious.