The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-11-11
A Fancy sketch Of American Girls.

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A Fancy Sketch Of American Girls.
The London World has invented q
quite unique monStrosity which it is
pleased to call "the uucivilized Ameri-
can girl, " and which it describes-wi.n
n wealth of inventive fancy that must
make other penny-a-liners green with
jealousy--in part rs follows: "By the
uncivilized American girl is meant the
girl who has not done Yewrope. She
has never been out of her own New
York or Boston; she is unspoilt by
Paris; she is a fresh Yankee, with all
her native raw material glaringly ex-
posed. She is generally very pretty;
her complexion is dazzling, her eyes
are bright and brilliant her little foot
and hand ravishing, and her figure
slight and slim as wand of willow.
Make her speak (she won't want much
making, by the by) and her voice is
harsh and loud, her accent is outrage
Gus, and her nasal twapg unbearable.
| She has an immense amount of fun in
her CHAT is if you get hold of good
specimen to study; she has plenty of
wit and shrewd quaint humor, and she
is never at loss for something to say.
She is romp at heart, and loves bit
of hard flirting dearly. She is not
very accomplished; but she knows
arithmetic well and thoroughly apprc-
ciates the value OF money. She always
talks loud, as if she thought you were
deaf. and always in haste, as if an ex-
press train waited for her just one min
ute and no more"
The plan upon which this ingenious
writer has constructed the strange
creature he describes is not at first ap-
parent, but one soon discovers that his
method is simply to describe what En-
glish girls are not. The American
girl, for instance; is described as being
pretty, and if there is one thing that
every observant traveller in England
knows, Ills that English girls, as
rule, are exceedingly plain; that their
hands and feet are those of "the
daughters of the plow;" and their fin
gers, so far from being ',slight and
trim as a wand Of willow" are as ut
terly devoid Of any poetic or graceful
trimness as it is possible to imagine.
From princess TO beggar maid they are
full and solid of figure, stout beef
eating wenches,' as old NARROW called
them in his day. As for fun, an En-
glish girl that understood joke-much
more one who could commit the unpar-
alelled imprudence of making one
would be looked upon as hopelessly
mad and consigned TO bedlam without
further ceremony. What would be
done with an English girl who display.
ed anything resembling wit, it is who'll
ly unnecessary to inquire. since the
suppostion is in itself incredible; and
the intelligent man who ever cncoun-
tered an English girl with anything to
say which was worth hearing, has vet
to be discovered.
Absolute dignity of manner is un-
known TO the American girl, " proceeds
our wiseacre, meaning by dignity, we
presume, that dense and awful stupidi-
ty which gives the average maiden lie
English society the air Of being carved
out of an lily made suet pudding, badly
over done she" he continues, work
ing his portrait of the ideal creature
he is amusing himself with depicting,
cannot walk slowly to save her life.
She skins along the street like IN i'm.
portant little water wagtal, very pref
lily, but always more or less fussily.
The days OF her life pass in novel
reading and llirtaton--and she herself
is a curious compound Of good nature,
cynicsm, affection, worldliness, tender.
ness and cunning; and with all her
good points considered as favorably as
possible, she is never quite woman"
We grant that the being that our
World hack has conjured up is "neyer
quite n woman, any more than Mad
anne Toussaud's wax figures are quite
human. We do not understand the
novel -reading imputation strayed into
the TRADE; certainly America is not
the country of the universal circulating
library and the three voumed novel:
but we cannot fail to regret that the
subject OF dress is passed over. Pro.
ceeding on the plan OF making tho
American girl whatever the British
maiden is not, what u splendid oppor-
tunity was here neglected of describing
our girls as dressed stylishly, richly
and in good taste, three rather desira-
bic qualities as utterly bcyond the En-
glish girls reach as in thepower Of ily-
ing or of walking in any way but with
stolid and substantial trampl--- BoSson
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