The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-20
Fl GIRL.
A Kentuck'an Abroad Takes a Look at Her
and Makes Comparisons.

"A Kentuck'an Abroad Take a Look at Her
and Makes Comparisons.
c. T.. K. in LouieviIle Times.
what do you think of the girls over harel'
writes my dude friend, Captain Samuel Mustang
Gaines.
Well, l think a good deal. If there has been
a pretty one passed the range of my optics with
out my observation and prisons, | will resign in
favor of the chivalrous deputy clerk of the
Court Of Appeals. Yes, L have watched out for
all the girls and compared them with our Ken
lucky beauties with a critics eye. Believe me,
the Beargrass and the Bluegrass have not suffered
in the crucial test. | shall not fatter you, my
dear girls. / don't have to, really; don't tell it,
I'm spoken for.
But to resume. The French women are ex-
ceedlngly stylish, ana dress with artistic taste.
Some of them arc very handsome, but there are
fewer comely ones than you would expect They
are great in chic, which is one of their vague eX-
p%ressions for stylish, well dressed, distingue
bearing, captivating manner, and all that. The
women grow coarse and ugly in France toward
middle life.
In Italy the girls have beautiful eyes and
teeth. with pale or olive compilations. They are
graceful and sweet-voiced. but not rosy or robust
at all. They have a soft, = dreamy air, and sly
underline eyeldshes glances that seem to invite
You to make love to them were it not for the old
folks or the duenna. Their matches are made
for them, and they have that waiting, expectant
look. Poor things!
1Heu Tie GnSllSn girls; lney are PeIUluS very
masculine in their bearing, walk and ways.
They assume that lf-reliant air, and when they
go riding they put on the regular pants that
men wear, so a young Englishman told me, who
has a sister and a sweetheart. So they go, and
they are erect walkers and riders. and are cense-
quently healthy, with large feet and flushed
faces. When you do see a pretty one, she is
good-looking to kill and cripple. A refined, cul-
tivated, sweet English face, with a characteristic
clear complexion, with a crown of golden hair, is
hard Tn avcA1 ammo fha AapObtppS of Eve NOn
see many of them with exquisite compilations,
blue eyes and golden and brown shades Of hair.
Some one has said that the Giver Of all good gave
these bright points to the Englishman to compen-
safe him for the loss of sunshine and azure sky.
He has it at home. indoors. so to speak.
The English women often mature into the
finest mOtherly faces without getting sallow and
fat and scrawny, like their more Southern sis
tiers across the channel. The young English
women walk with a stride and IA pace that would
quite alarm one of our dudes, while they have a
cold, indifferent air they don't mean. Oh, no,
not a bit Of it. l am told. The Scotch girls are
handsome, hale and hearty, without being plen-
tifully pretty or beautiful. They have a lofty
bearing, and when you see the best they are a
splendid-looking type of womanhood, with great
force of character in their faces. Brown, red
and yellowish shades of hair are thick among
them. There is q reddish-brown shade that
I seems to be the natural color. But the Irish
girls, when they are pretty, and many of them
are, can't be beat anywhere-on this side at
least. Their compilations are simply perfect,
and would put a peach to blush. Their features
the good looking ones. mark you-are fascinat-
ing, and they are modest and we'll behaved. 1
saw some of them in passing through Dublin
that would be reckoned as beauties in Louisville
or Baltimore, | an sure. After all a pretty,
sweet girl is that same divine creature wherever
you find her, and this young man is too suscepti-
bic.
Strange as it may seem, I have scarcely seen a
pretty girl over here in any country whose coun-
terpart [ have not seen in the States. 1t looks
like our girls are cousins to all tine pretty ones
over here, and the resemblance is peeping out OF
their faces and telling us what a mixed race we
are-Scotch, Irish. English, Welsh, Huguenot
and what not. The men are more marked in
their differences, but often among them you see
American similitude.