The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-07-10
NEW YORK WOMEN.
Their Distinctive Quality ofTaste and Styles


Their Distinctive Quality ofTaste and Styles
The New YORK woman, says writer
in the american Queen, can scarcely be
mistaken by close observer, who has
travelled, for woman from New Eng
land, from the South or the West, or from
any other capital OF the Atlantic seaboard.
1t may not be easy for him who recog-
nlZcs her at glance to say in words why
he recognized her. but he feels as sure
of her habitat as if she was covered from
head to fsot with labels of the metropolis
IT he be imaginative, he perceives in her
face something of the brightness Of Goth
ans skies, the broad sweep of the Hud-
son in her motion, the easy Indifference
of the great city in her poisc, the self
confidence of her giving out of the bust
ling centre of tie western world, the
breezy, bracing quality Of the sea air in
her figure and her gait. Hers is a famil-
lar form in all lands, for no woman is
such wanderer us she, and whenever
found she is discerni5le. Her com
patriot, sailing up the Nile and nearing
the second cataracts, gets glimpse Of
her as the descending daabccah passes
him in the moonlight; but the glimpse
is sufficient. He has probably never
seen her before, but sne is revealed to
him in flash as the sister of the
woman he had admired on the Fifth ave-
nue. promenade or driving in the Central
park. Climbing the Pyramids, he de-
tects IN the graceful, springy foot lifted
alluringly above him petal kinship to
the feet he remembers as twinkling in the
waltz at the academy balls The temi-
nine New Yor er stands not apart by any
extraordinary comeliness. S Is apt to
be pretty-vcry pretty; but this isl fault
she shares with all her country women.
She shines by making the most Of herself
not by hiding, but by helping natnre.
She is artistic, not artificial; e is esthet-
ic, not foolish. With given amount of
beauty, perhaps, she can appear more
beautiful than any Of her American sis
ters not more bounteously blessed. She
possesses taste in ample measure; she
studies effect; understands harmonies; :;
has a cunning perceptions Of
tone. When she Is we'll dressed
she knows it, and nobody can
shake her conviction of the fact. Then
is she as certain Of herself as trough she
were a demonstrated thcorem in Eucl id
and she can walk down a crowded and
critical draw ing room without a haunting
thought of hcr acceptability. Style is
incentcstably hers. Even when plain,
this sets her off, and renders her more at
tractlvc often than is the pretty woman
incapable Of improving opportunities.
The style Of the New York woman has
penetrated to tar-off lands; has been wit
messed and approved by Brahmin and
Buddhist, by Moslem and Parsee. 1t is
the style of mind and manner, not less
than of person and attire; it is instinct,
tact, breeding, perfect courtesy, as we'll
as graceful lines and fitting shades of
color. The New York woman has self
confidence, and from this, and from I'M
derstanding of her range, she keeps with
in her proper sphere, and charms at once
by her intuitions and her intelligence
Accustomed to triumphs, she does not
mar them by assumption. She receives
becomingly what is her right, and proves
herself one OF the numbcrless unspoiled
darlngs of the great republic.