Middletown transcript., 1884-02-15
THE MONTREAL CARNIVAL.

| THE BEAUTY OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH G A
MADAM GIRLs-CURLING, ToBoGGANING, SNOW
SHOE RACES, GRAND MASQUERADE SKATING
CARNIVAL, AND DANCING AT THE HOTELS.
The sun came out to-day with glo-
rious burst that set the blanket of snow
sparkling like jewels sprinkled in down.
It was fitting that this should be the
first fine day, for this is the ladies' day
of the carnival. Tonight they are to
show the New Workers what unimag-
ined splendor there is in a masquerade
carnival on skates. The ladies are the
chief features. The old-fashioned gran
ite, snow-blockaded town is novel sight
to- stranger. The sleighs and furs, the
French stores, the European customs,
and the winter sports-these are all
odd and interesting but it is the ladies
that attract the most attention. Balti-
more must take back seat and
Brooklyn must abdicate in favor of the
greater and more varied beauty Of
Montreal 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 each:
The English girl is tall and strongly
built. She walks with her figure rig
idly erect and her head held up. from
consciousness 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 fiaxen or light-brown hair curtain
her forehead, or perhaps her hair is
puffed into cloud that projects beyond
her sealskin cap. She has big deep
blue eyes, eloquent of good health and
good nature, and blazing at 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 daughters up indoors
like hot-hOuse plants, for fear they will
not be ladylike and womanlyl These
robust girls, in modesty, in grace, in
softness of speech and femininity gen
orally, are the peers Of the daughters Of
Murray Hill, and yet there is hardly
one that cannot stand by her brothers.
side in whatever sport he is enjoying.
These girls can climb mountain like
deer. they can skate like the women of
Holland, they are at home on snow
shoes, the man sport Of the toboggan
hills is every day fun to them.
In a window on Craig street there is
displayed the clothing of Montreal
girl. There is only one sample of each
sort of her garment, so that it is just
as if a girl had undressed there and
gone to bed in an adjoining room.
Consequently, the big store window is
filed. The New York women hang
about the window all day. First, there
is a pair of artics two sizes too large.
A New York girl would faint if man
saw them on her. Then there is a
pair of ribbed wooden stockings to 60
over the shoes, and then the regular
shoes of size mid way between the
New York and the st. Louis average.
Then pair of clocked silk stockings,
flannel drawers an eighth of an inch
thick and made to button at the knee,
flannel under chemise, linen che