Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-10
ENGLIsH GlRLs OF rHE DAY.
The Wsyin which Maiaens Grow
Up and Gel Views OfLife.


san Francisco Argonaut.
People do say it is this constant
companionship with men, and mixing
with them in their field sports that
give the fashionable English girl Of
the day all her love for ''manish"
ways, and make her The slangy, horsy,
rapid creature We SO often find her
Perhaps people are right Yet what
real harm, after all, If girls do wear
stand up collars and scarf pins, and
hunt, fish, shoot. play billiards. and
smoker None, certainly, If their hearts
are all right. Besides, look at the
models they have. The Empress of
Austria seems only happy in the
saddle, and no less persOnages than
the Princesses Louise and Beatrice
smoke cigars. Such actions are of
course likely 90 shock the sensibilities,
pot alone of our grandmothers, but
OF a certain type of young lady whose
conversational powers are limited to
understood replies OF yes" and mo-"
and whose proper bringing up is ex-
hibited in a painfully studious avoid
ance of either showing her feet or sep
arating her knees while sitting down.
But a woman nowadays does not care
TO please her own sex as much as the
other, aud it is only too clear which
sort of a young lady is the most at
trac.iye to men, and which kind of a
girl gets the dances at balls and the
most attention everywhere. Men are
pretty good judges of women, and il
they don't object and are willing to
make their wives out Of girls who
know more Of horse flesh than they do
about botany, and prefer a Whit oil
tobacco smoke to ylang ylang Of Akin
sons white rose, it is their own look
out, and no one else's business.
| know young lady who lives down
in one of the Southern counties.
She is one of the prettiest girls in
England, has $4,000 a year in her own
right, is just twenty three, and the
daughter OF a peer whose pedigree
goes back to the Conquest, and whose
country house is the show place Of
the country. To look at her you
would think her the quietest Of til,
quiet, and that she hadn't an idea
beyond crochet and weak tea. But
she hunts, has her own stable, keeps
four hunters, now and then rides .
steeple chase, buys and sells her OWL
horses without hep from any one; has
her own wine merchant, VINE cellar
and tobacconist, fences, boxes, skate.
and rows; has her boudoir decorated
wi foils, gloves, whips, horse shoel
and hunting trophies; smokes cigar
cites during the day and cigars altel
dinner; is a capital judge Of claret anC
port, and can tell Amontillado from
MARSHA with her eyes shut; is a first
rate shot with shotgun or rife; draw
her own charges and pays her owl
bills; and last, though not least. has
delightful way of letting you see he
foot and ankle when she puts one foo
over the other on sitting down, tina
would make a prim old dowager fain
and get her set upon directly by thu
sly ones. But she has never beef
known to Airt; has refused more offer
than the quiet ones ever dreamed o
receiving, aud once, il is related
taught the Prince OF Wales a lesson
stopping in the middle Of a valse will
him at a state ball at Buckingham
Palace, and refusing to go on beCaus
he held her tighter than she consid
cred proper. You can't call a cir
like her fast. But she knows enougI
to take care of herself, and if he
companionShip with the young swell
Of the day and her imitation OF thei
friendship to their love, it is not I'm
likely she is nearer right in her esti
mate Of her fellow beings than ar
the dragonesses of proprlety, who re
gard her with adherence, but ar,
willing to sell their baahful maiden
to the first libertiue or titled scape
grace whose establishment and rem
roll make him, in their eyes, a desira
BILE party.