Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-23
OUR GIRLS AND ssYEw-RoPE.''
Some Rank Impotence From Mr. Ed-
 mund Yates Newspaper.

From the London World.l
 By the uncivilized American girl is meant
 the girl who has not ''done Yew-rope." She
 has never been out of her own New York or
 Boston; she is unspoiled by Paris; she is a
 fresh Yankee, with all her native raw mate
 rial glaringly exposed. She is generally very
 pretty; her complexion is dazzling, her eyes
 are dark and brilliant, her little foot and
 hand ravishing, and her figure slight and
 slim as a wand of willow. Make her speak
 (she won't want much making, by the bye,
 and her voice is harsh and loud, her accent
 is outrageous, and her nasal twang unbeara- ble. She has an immense amount of fun in
 her; (that is if you get hold of good speci-
 men to study) she has plenty of wit and
 shrewd quaint humor, and she is never at
 loss for something to say. She is romp at heart and loves bit of hard flirting dearly. She is not very accomplished; but she knows arithmetic well and thoroughly appreciates the value of money. There is generally something original about her; she has her own peculiar 9fnotions" and eccentric ways of behaving in society. She always talks loud, as if she thought you were deaf, and always in haste, as if an express train waited for her just one minute and no more. She
 has hearty appetite and mixes the stran- gest condiments together. At her break fast she breaks up four or five half-boiled eggs into tumbler, and beats them vio- lently into sort of yellow mash, before
 she will taste them; and with these eggs she devours corn-cakes, rolls, Etm'lasses, toast, jam, bacon, fish, fowl, hominy, prunes coffee, cream; often finishing with 8 plate of fruit and a tumbler of iced water She usually has lot of candy in her pocket and eats it at all hours. She loves to sit in 5 rocking chair, in the heat of sun or fire, munching candy and reading novels. She
 does not care for sewing or housework; she considers it beneath her, and leaves it to the
 EEhelps'' or servants. She loves to display her small feet and hands-a peculiarity of American women
 She is as a rule, very lively, and has fair amount of surface knowledge, which serves her in good stead when she desires to ''come out strong" in convers ation. The simpering affectation of innocent ignorance, so com monly practiccd by the English girl who is not sure of her ground, is utterly discarded by her American sister who rushes head long into any discussion, no matter how abstruse and hazards remarks which are sometimes marvelously shrewd and clever, but oftener very shallow and absurd. But the American
 girl does not mind what she says as long as she says something; to keep silence on any subject is insufferable torture to her. 'Sakes l aliveI" exclaimed charmingly lovely Yan- kee belle to me one evening, 'fwhat are our tongues for if we mayn't talk?'' Guess the English a long way too solemn; they don't have more funerals than we do, saY?'' Absolute dignity of manner is unknown to the American girl. She learns department of course-the result being that she holds her back extraordinarily stiff and straight and carries her head very high; but the slow gliding movement of highly bred French or Italian grande dame (for it must be con- fessed that the foreigners surpass the Eng fish in grace of bearing) is a thing that high ly astonishes her, while it wins her reluctant admiration. She cannot walk slowly to save her life. She skins along the street like an important little water wagtail, very prettily, but always more or less fussily. She cl1ngs. to the belief that stiffness of back consti- tutes elegance of carriage, ignoring, or, per haps, not knowing, that the 1.-the turn of a woman's waist and the supple curve of her back are charms that attract the painters brush and the scu1ptor's chisel. She adores shops, and, however wealthy she may be, she thoroughly enjoys buying cheap things | and boasting of the bargains she has made. ! The days of her life pass in novel-reading | and hirtation-and she herself is q curious compound of good nature, cynicism, affee- | ton, worldliness, tenderness and cunning; I and with all her good points considered as | favorably as possible, she is never quite 3 woman. At least, she is not womanly wo- man, such as poets rave of and artists dream | of-she has no such spiritual beauty in her soul as that which is shadowed forth in the exquisite face of Ary Schefer's Marguer- | ite.'' Whereas an unspoiled English girl is like ripening peach still on it's tree, and glowing with downy and beautiful bloom; | the unspoiled American girl is like the same peach pIueked for some time and carefully \ packed in a box-good fruit and fair to look at, but no bloom on it.
 So much for the unciyilized specimen-the