Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-08-20

quantity of mosquitoes, CT whom all have fine
voices and l-n big appe:te:.
But about girls, which bio Lewis gays is the
first thought OF ncD, even above ea7ep. One
caunot help 1oticiDg the great contrast between
Northern and Southern women at this resort.
They come and they &c, but still the contrast
never ends, and remains the same all the time.
like to study them as class aud see what the
difference Is.
The Northern girl, 10 the first place, dresses
better, and with more taste, | thiLk, than her
Southern sister. She walks better, carries
herself with more grace, is freer and has
more style. She is infinitely more practical,
and generally better educated than our South.
ern women. She takes more care of her COM
plexion, she exercises mora. and her health is
stronger, and she keeps her good looks longer
than tie maldens of the sunny cline. She is
a straight up and down girl, not given either to
sentiment or love making, aad she means
business every time. She will discuss John
Sturt Mill, or DArWin's theory, ond knows
all about Ruskio, blu! she knows nothing
of poetry except perhaps Swiuburne and
L0pgtelIoW.
The Southern girl, on the contrary. adores
Byron aud cries over Lucille She is naturally
sympathetic, and feels very kcenly for the
SORROWS Of others; like the maideos OF Crete.
she can stand martyrdom, but she meS at
piteous story and soteus at every tale of sorrow.
The Southern girl is naturally, aud by cdu-
cation more religious than the female n orthern:
er her faith is simpler, more child like. and
she believes devoutly in the orthodox creed.
The Northern girl reads more, she dives deeper,
and she lands, if not dryer, at least more
skeptica, on the great Christian truths. She
| ALL i ootc SroI m
besides, it is fashionable to be free thinker,
and the Northern girl will follow the fashion
sooner even than the prCcepts OF the popular
preacher.
The Southern girls have mo;e delicate figures,
they have sweet voice. they under
stand how to use their eyes; they have more
Partisan manners; they have more of those little
feminine ways which win and hold men more
than ANYTHING else; they, are, Incompatible
accept, without any backwardneas, all that !:
said "su claire de Ia lunc." After q waltz the
! Northern girl sits quiet and makes her partner
fan her, but the Southern maiden strolls II and
listens to como love tale, under the starlig ht
| The Northern girl is blunt; she has 10 tact, and
| then again she has such coDfounded appetite
that it d;illusion!ze5 her lover to watch her, as
| the sailors would ssy, stow awsy cargo Ct
green corn in her hold" The Northern girl is
cautious and calculating; she cares Infinitely
more about what people say of her thsn she does
| for the convictions of her own conscience There
is but little of the Clara We're de We're in her com.
position she don't understand coquettlng, and
don't believe in the melodrsmatic She would
| laugh in Claude Melnotte's face when he wa:
describing his pslsce by Lake Como and ask II
it was free from mortgage; then hint sbou! HI;
| balance in bank.
The Southern girl, on the contrary is crea'
ture of impulse; proud she is, but impuislye
and she dotes On bravery and brsiuf. Give hel
those requisites and she would laugh fortune
| to scorn She don't like wealth for show, but
merely for comfort and the luxury 1t gives, and
her pride of name and Of blood. always para.
mount, keeps her free from blame or detraction
I WAS discussing the subject the other day
with sn English lady-a brilliant writer. by the
| bye, and the keenest observer of events and
things l ever met. She was second Lady
Wortcy nontague. and her idea OF Heaven was
| constant travelling and amending adventures
Sho had spent sew eral years in different parts Of
the Union, and, like Captain Cutie, she had
made note Of everything and Of every body.
There is q remarkable contrast, she told me,
between the Northern and Southern women.
What is it? asked.
Simply this: tho Southern women have the
| finest forms in the world. The Northern women
! owo their shape moro TO their milliner than to
| nature.
! Is that So? asked, in utter amusement.
| 1t is an undeniab!e fact. she said, tina! there
| sro como things woman knows that man can
| mover hope TO understand.
That's so, answered, and fell into long rev.
| eric.
lam glad 70 chronicle the perfect success OF
| this place. Mr.. Phoebus has cleared high and
| dry over all expenses thirty thousand dollars
which is moro than any other watering place in
| Virginia has done
Tho dining room has been under the direction
Of Sandy Parker, Virginia colorcd gentleman,
by gewd, sir! Sandy made the reputation Of
tho Vicu de Pau hotel, which was burned
down fow years ago, and he has made the din.
ing room of tho Hygeia almost IS perfect in It's
cuisine as John Lonergan has made the Ton!lne
| Everything hero is as it ought TO be. except
dsmnabiy discordant dscord / ever listened to.
1t is like what the dsrkey once ssd OF his onion
eating sweetheart: DE body am sweet, de moul
an good, but, by golly, do breath am horrdl"
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