River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-07
English
Frenchman Oh
Women.

One Max O'Rell has recently written a
book on "John Bull and His Island"
which contains good many things which
ought to interest American laties.
Some of them are here reprinted, having
spesial reference to English femininity.
English women are remarkable for
their fresh complications, their decided
and fearless gait. and the length of their
feet, which reminds one that twelve
inches 90 to the foot in England. I'M
possible to make faux pas with such has
es as these. They cln not lose their
center Of gravity. They have only the
beauty Of youth An English woman Is
seldom handsome after 81. In many re-
spests the Englishwoman is superior to
thu French woman; she IS more natural ;
she is less subject to vapOrs, and does
not regularly get her migraine. She is
not so naive a. the young French girl,
but, on the other hand, she Is
less childish. She goes out without
her mamma and her maid, g YES
YOU hearty grasp of the hand,
and looks Won unblusAinCly in the face.
Unmarried, free as the air, she may so
to the theater, take 4 walk, or even a
Journey, with male companions; she is
the leader of society, Indispensable at al!
social gatherings and pleasure parties.
Married, she does not boast of leading
her husband by the nose; she attends to
her house and her children; she does
not make love to her husband, bEtne!.h
er does she make love to other men. Ii
she is rot more demonstrative toward
the former, it is, In great measure, his
own fault; me permits no liberties 10 be
taken with him. The EEglsiman has
not the bump of amativeness; his neck,
on an average, does not measure more
than fourteen inches; her enticing ways
would he entirely lost upon him. In
her dignity the ErgIlsnwOman ieiralns
from m king advances toward her lord
and master for fear oftheir not being met
with approval. With us Il too strict watch
over our children, and the fear Of Civ
ing them to much liberty, engender q
love of the secret and mys erious.
Evrvthing in an Eagljsh education
tends to make Young people self,reilant.
No mother CT eovy rness wont i think
of opening a letter addressed to her
daughter or pupil; the girl has her own
private correspondence as sacred as
that Of her eid-rs. No letters received
on the slv; no letters written to Young
sweethearts at midnight. The absence
If suspicion destroys the charm OF nys-
terry. Gentlemen never use
Objectionable expressions among them
selves, nor indulge in risky jokes in the
company of ladies'"
1t may well be suspected that this is
something over cou!eur de rose. but
there is some good sense in it all the
same. And if the gallant Gaul is so
charmed witt the freedom of English
society. how he would be enchanted
with its eXaggeration in America! But
turn to another page of the spicy little
book, and one stumbles on something
which wears somewhat different Wis
age:
Adultery is frequent in the higher
classes. among the rich and Idle; very
rare among the middle and working
classes. do not mt ltion the lower pop
Mace of London; their life is that ofdogs-
"A married man. said an Englishman
of some importance TO me one day, is
very foolish to be un'althful 10 mis- wife.
WHY on earth should one blight one 5
neace of mind? Is not one woman as good
rs another? In nine divorce cases out OF
ten the correspondent Is an officer IN her
Maiesty's service. An officer and a
gentleman, having nothing particular to
DO in time of peace, is fond Of keeping
his hand in by shooting over other peo-