The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-12-18
L Fancy Sketch of American Girls.

The London World has invnatad a
quite unique monstros;tv which il 10
pleased to call 1.-The uncivilizei Amori-
can girl. and which it describos-with
wealth Of inventive fancy that m'st
make other penny-a-lincrs green with
jealousy-in part rs follows: "Br tho
unciyilized American girl is meant tho
girl who has not done Ycwrope. She
has never been out of her own New
York or Boston; she is unspoilt by
Paris; she is II fresh Yankee, with all
her native raw material glaringly ex-
posed. She is gcnorally worry pretty;
her complexion is dazzling. her eyes
are bright and brilliant, her little foot
and hand ravishing, and her figure
slight and slim rs a wand OF willow.
Make her speak (sho won't want much
making, by tho by) and her voice is
harsh and loud, her accent is outrage
Gus, and her nasal twang unbearabIe.
She has an immense amount of fun in
her (that is. il you get hold Of good
specimen to study); she has plonty of
wit and shrowl qNaint humor, and she
is never At Il loss for something to say.
She is I romp nj heart, and loves q Tit
of hard flirting dearly. Shc IS MT
very accomplished; but she knows
arithmetic well and thoroughly apprc-
ciates the value of money. She always
talks loud, rs if she thought YOU were
deaf. and always in haste. as if an ex-
press train waited for her just ono min
uto and no more"
The plan upon which this ingenious
writor 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 ono thing that
evory observant traveller in England
knows, it is that English girls, rs a
rule. are exceedingly plain; that their
hands and feet arc those Of 'tho
daughters of tho plow;" and their fin
gers, so far from being "slight and
trim as q wand of Willow" are rs ut
torly devoid of any poetic or graceful
trimness rs 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 4 ajoke-mucl
moro ono who could commit the unpar
alelled imprudence of making one
would be looked upon as hopelosslJ
mad and consigned to bedlam withou
further ceremony. What would bt
done with an English girl who display
ed anything resembling wit, it is Who'll
ly unnecessary to inquire. since tn,
supposition is in itself Incredible; anc
the Intelligent man who ever encoun
tered an English girl with anything tc
say which was worth hearing, has We
to be discovered.
absolute dignity of manner is un
known to tho American girl" proceeds
our wiseacre, meaning by dignity, w,
presume, that dense and awful stupid
ty which gives the average maiden il
English society the air of being carvcc
out OF an lily made suet pudding, badly
over done. She" he continues, work
ing his portrait of the ideal crcatur,
he is amusing himself with depicting
cannot walk slowly to save her life
| She skins along the street like an i'm
portant little water waglaii. very pret
tlly, but always moro or less fussilv
The days of her lito pass in novel
! reading and llrtation-and she hersel
Is curious compound Of good nature
cynicism, affection, worldlincss, tender
ness and cunning; and with all ho
Soou i)OlhIS COuSlucICu rs 1dVOrdDlV 4.
! possible, she is never quite n woman. '
We grant that the being that oul
World hack has conjurcd up is "nevcl
quite a woman" any more than Mad.
anne Toussaud's wax figures arc quite
human. We do not understand the
Vcl-reading imputation strayed into
tho TRADE; certainly America is not
tho country of the universal circulating
library and the three volumed novel;
but we cannot fail to regret that the
subject of dress is passed over. Pro
ceeding on tho plan of making the
American girl whatever the British
maiden is not, what splendid oppor.
tunity was here neglected of describing
our girls as dressed stylishly, richly
and in good taste. three rather desira-
bio qualities as utterly beyond the En-
glish girls reach as in the power of fly.
ing or of walking in any way but with
a stolid and substantial tramp p!-Boston
Courier.
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