The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-11-19
English Girls of the Day.
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leople do say if ls thls constant com panionship with men. and mixing with them in their held sports that gAe the fashionable English girl of the day ali her love for 'manish' ways. and make her the slangy. horsy rapid creature we so often ind her. Perhaps people arc nght Ne; wha, real harm. after all. If girls do wear stand up collars and scarf pins. and hunt. fish. shoot play billiards and smoke None certainly. If ,heir hearts are all right. Besides. look at the models they have. The empress of Austria seem, only happy in the saddle. and no less person ages than the Fnncesscs Louise and Bea- ,riee smoke Cigars. Such actions are of course likel, ,o shock the sen>iblllies. not alone If our srandmothets. bu, of d certain type of young lady whose con versatonal powers are limited ,o under stood replles of yes and no. and whose proper bringing up IS exhibited in a painfully studious avoidance of either showing her fec, or separating her kness while sitting down But d woman nowa- days does not care ;o please her own sex a> much a> the other. and II i> only too elea. which sor, of young lady ls the most attractive to men. and winch klnd oi q girl gel, the dance. at balls and the most attention everywhere Men afe pretty good fudgcs ni women. and fl they don't object and tfe wiling :o make then vlyes out oi girl> who kaow more ut horse flesh than ihel do aboG, botany and pre- fer whlr of tobacco smoke ,o ,lans ylans of Atkinson white rose. Il > iheir ,.n look out and m one else business.
 know young lady who iNeS down Tn one of the southern Jounues. She IS one of ,he pre,,ies; siris in England. has fs.ooo year in her own right. |, lust ,wen,y-,hrcc and the dsesh al peer, whose pedigree goes back to the conquest. and whose country house. ls the show place of the country. To look !, her you would think her the quotes, oi the quiet and that she hadn't an idea beyond crocket and weak tea. Bat she hunts. has her own stable. keeps four hunters. ne~-and .heaLldes A sieeple chase. buys and sells her own horses without help from any one: has her own wine mer- chant wine cellar. and tobaC con, .; fen6 es !. boxes skates and rows has her boudoir decorated with ioiis gIoye>, whips. horse shoes and hunting trophies smokes cigar e,tes during the day and cigars after dn- Itcf iS fl A.tfltl.ti tfl put and cin ,ch AmontIllado from Mar>alA wi;h he. eyes shut: Is a hrsi-rate shot with shotgun or nile draws her own charges and pays her own bills: and last
 though no, leas: has delightful way of letting you see her foo; and ankle shcn she puts one foot over the other on sl,- tlng down. ,ha, would make a priIn old do~ager faint and ge, her set upon d. rectly bl he slI ones. Bu; she has never been Snowr to nir' ha, refused more oficr, ;ha: the iuie, ,acs es,i dreamed of rc eitsa-. and oa Q. }, related taught inc P..nce ot Wale, :, lesson. ,'sppns n ne aldd.e of ,.>e vi'h am a. ,, ,tatc b,... Il. lt8csin ham Pa.a r, anA reiusIn. ;o eo on 5ecar,e he held he :, her than she considered proper. og eani all d girl like her fast. But she knows enough to take care oi herself. and II her ompAn- ionship with the young swells of the day and her imitation of tkeir friendship % the,r love. Il Is not unlikely she nearer ugh, n her estimate of her fellow beings than are he dragonesseS of fproprety. who regard her with abhorrence. but are wll- ling 10 sell the,r bashful maidens io ;he first lber;lne or ;i;led scape-grace whose establishment, and rent roll make him. in their eyes. desirable party.