The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-20
High Life in Canada.

Baltimore must take a back seat and
Brooklyn must abdicate in favor of the
greater and Inore varied beauty of Mon
treal girls. There are two sorts of
beauty, as there are two kinds of girls
the English Canadian and the French
Canadian. The English Canadians are
beautiful rather than pretty. The
French girls are captivatingly pretty.
Look at type of the English girl:
The English girl is tall and strongly
built. She walks with her figure rigidly
erect and her head held up, from con-
sciousness of strength, rather than from
pride Her cheeks are like the sides of
a peach that has just begun to ripen.
The rose blush blends with the pink,
that is in turn lost in the general creamy
tint of the whole face. Waves of faxen
or light-brown hair curtain her forehead,
or perhaps her hair is puffed into a
cloud that projects beyond her sealskin
cap. She has big deep-blue eyes, elo-
quent OF good health and good nature,
and blazing at a touch of excitement.
Being an athlete, she is a model OF good
health, and the equal of her brothers at
the dinner table. Her nose and mouth
are not too fashionably small. They
match her fine stature, and the healthy,
graceful carriage that tell OF stout limbs
and developed muscles What a lesson
the Montreal girl teaches to the New
York mothers who bring their daugh-
ters up indoors like hothouse plants, for
fear they will not be ladylike and wo-
manly! These robust girls, in modesty,
in grace, in softness of speech and fem.
4 ha Of
daughter of Murray Hill, and yet there
is hardly one who cannot stand by hel
brothers. side in whatever sport he is
enjoying. These girls can climb q
mountain like deer, they can skate like
the women of Holland, they are al
home on snow-shoes, the mad sport O.
the toboggan hills is everyday fun tC
them. As these words are written they
are scudding on snowshOes on tile hill
applauding the curriers' in the govern
ment sheds, driving their ponies at &
three-minute gait ahead of their sleighs
skimming breathlessly down the slides
cutting ''3s" and 49, in the skating
Kinks, and bustling along the streets al
gait that makes New York man fee
as though he were taking root In tht
snow.
Il didn't know my own girl when
came to dance with her," said a New
Yorker last night. Il had been arounC
with her, walking about or driving, an(
she had the usual six thicknesses o
clothes on. She was good deal bigger
around than l was, and supposed sht
was built so but when l met her u
the ball she had shrunk just about one
half. | found l could get my arm
around her waist, which is great dea
more than l was able to do in th,
Sleigh"
In window on Craig street there il
displayed the clothing of Montrea
girl. There is only one sample of eacl
sort of her garment, so that it is just a
if girl had undressed there and gone t.
bed in an adjoining room. Consequent
ly the big store window is filled. Th
New y ork women hang about the win
dow all day. First, there is a pair o
. arctics two sizes too large. A New
York girl would faint if man saw then
, on her. Then there is par of ribbe'
woolen stockings to go over the shoes
, and then the regular shoes. of siz
j midway between the New Y ork and th
St. Louis average. Then pair G
clocked silk stockings, garters, flame
I drawers an eighth Of an inch thick an
/ made to button at the knee, tanne
under chemise, linen chemise, tian
1 mel skirt shorter than the two line
e skirts, thick dress, velvet basque,
t sealskin sacque, a sealskIn cap, re-