Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-25
TYPES OF WOMEN.
French View of Some National
characteristics.
THE AMERICAN

pleasure, dress, luxury; shows herself
morally without concealment, such as
/ she is, in manner 10 deceive no one;
knows she is attractive, and loves to at
tract without committing herself. Fllrts
| all the winter with this one or that one,
only 10 dismiss him in the spring, choos
ing Immediately another. Her resources
are capital which never lies idle. She
I goes out alone; travels alone; or, when
! it suits her better, with a male friend,
with confidence without limit, and an
intimacy, in appearance, almost conjugal.
/ The thus elected is allowed to de-
scribe his feelings and to speak of his
| love from morning till night, but it is
not permitted to him to kiss even the
! tips of her fingers. After marriage she
i passes all her days alone and her even
ings in listening TO talk of business. me-
/ chanical inventions, farming concerns,
or the like.
She leaves her daughters to enjoy the
! liberty which she herself has enjoyed
without grave abuse. Since nothing Sc
rious has happened to her, why should
/ Mary, Fannie or Jennie be less strong or
less able to meet any emergency?
In one sense she has created the Paris
fashions. Parisians detest her, prcvincials
! despise her, yet men of all nations are
bewitched with her. though they do not
marry her unless she has large for
tune
With reddish hair, paler than golden,
frank black eyes which neither droop
nor quail, and figure which it is i'm
possible to initiate, she lies back in a
carriage as if it were hammock; a nat
ural and easy pose. On foot, she steps
along briskly and unconcernedly, her
heel tapping the pavement as she walks.
Attracting many glances, she is yet much
occupied with herself and little with
others. A plant from the broad wilds,
which, put in a narrow space and finding
itself hemmed in, stretches across the
glass without disquieting itself with the
frozen plants which vegetate around it.
If understood better and criticised less
this young girl would be more truly es-
timated at her Just value.
THE ENGLISH.
An adorable face, which in the full
glare of day seems as though in moon
light, so pale and transparent in its col
oring. Large eyes, frank yet modest,
with long lashes. Little teeth. which
lengthen perceptibly, growing like grass
in the country, until at twenty five they
suggest keyboard. Delicate and with
out pronounced figure when young, later
enormously stout or dried up. Almost
invariably hideous at forty. Extremely
exact in small matters, model of neat
ness.
There is prudish simplicity in the ar
rangement of her chamber, which is only
place for sleeping and bathing. No
one may enter there. To allow even the
| best friend to see so much as the pillow
on which she sleeps! Oh, no! shocking !
Absolute mistress of her actions to the
day of her marriage, but the slave of
duty, she prepares herself from child
to be a good wife and mother. She
chooses her own husband; her parents
are not occupied with nor trouble them
! selves about the matter, for in England
the old maid is not an object of con-
tempt. She has her own place in society,
and, if anything is lacking to her, she
alone is aware of it. She hunts, rides
horseback, and occupies herself with
music, literature and politics.
She always wishes to know all about a
woman, but is not so critical in regard to
men. Virtuous by principle and temper
ament, she does not permit the thought
OF evil doing to rest in her mind. The
| daughter of nobleman is under the safe
guard of hereditary or personal pride; the
daughter of peasant is guided by her
conscience and follows straight path.
Her mind is serious and sentimental.
She awaits young lord who is travelling
around the world, or an officer who is in
India. She will marry him if he comes
back without being married If he be
unfalthful she will regret him all her life.
Under her white hairs passion will
never be eXtingulshed, and the tears of
love will still run behind the glasses of
her spectacles. The object of her regrets
may become ugly, fat, common, drink
more than he ought, but she will always
see him as he was at twenty. When she
comes to Paris she has her dresses made
by our celebrated costumers, but the
English sharpness of outline shows its
angles through the softest material, fiat
tens, piaits, puffs, etc., and miss is
only knife dressed up, surmounted by a
veil of gauze, which floats above her head
like the flag of ship at the summit of
her great mast.
THE SPANISH.
A perfect creole. A child of nature.
The sun which makes the orange trees
blossom has developed her sensibilities
before her mind was formed. There has
been no time to breathe to her word of
love, and yet her eyes speak it already.
She dances, sleeps and fans herself Eats
little, a cup of chocolate, and cake