The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-13
Tells of Small Men and Tall
Women in Ireland.
THE VERY MORAL OLD WORLD.
Degenerate Statesmanship-The Strife
Between Protectionists and
Free Traders.
BELFAST. August 16, 1885.
Correspondence Of THE HERALD


Correspondence of THE HERALD.
Men and women here do not attach
the same importance to what might be
termed the physical equality of the
sexes that's observable elsewhere. One
sees any number of small men "dander-
ing" along pleasant walks size by side
with girls half head taller than them
selves. There are not so many small
women here as one notices in other
places. The general tendency is to tall
ness and sparseness, and good sized
young lady can see nothing whatever
laughable in looking lovingly down into
the eyes of the manly little chap beside
her. She hasn't the slightest objection
to being supported by his strong
right ARM" and 1 presume. (when she
feels to rest her head upon his bosom)
that she has the good sense to wait
until they are in the immediate vicinity
of step ladder so that the tender and
desirable feat can be accomplished with
out the danger of having her neck dis
located in the performance. It must belan
interesting spectacle, that where the
"wee" man proposes to the Irish girl
and where she, in the gladness of her
heart, bursts into tears, rapturiously
falls upon his neck and gurgles "yis,"
the little fellow meanwhile bracing him
self like an Atlas to support the weight
of his inamorata, and using all the skill
he possesses to keep her from falling
over him like an over balanced pole. Not
all women in Ireland are tall and sparse
by any means; but there seems to be 4
preponderance that way, and there does
seem to be a proneness Of large women
for small men. Nor are all men small.
nor ANYTHING like 1t. The Belfast con-
stabulary are that the finest lot of tall ,
well-built and handsomely featured men
o e could wish to see. 1t often occurs
to ones mind the most perfectly built
and best looking young men land they
are nearly all young are drafted into
the corstabulary force, but there is an
evident proneness in small men for
gooG-sized women, and of large men
for the small women. The smaller
women are the better built, while the
larger men are those of better physique.
1t is a very common thing to see men
over six feet in height and some of
them so a long distance-or several
inches over it. One thing do admire
about the Irish girl: If She is not ma
turally pretty you do not see her patch
ing herself up with powder and paste to
cover and to hide what she may think
to be the mistakes of nature-in her par
ticular case. And if she has fair face
and good complexion, the Lord, in ad-
dition, seems to have blessed her with
sense enough to let that which is good
alone, and not spoil it or both, by such
daubS as turn sweet face into an OBJ
ject so CHASTITY or so unnatural that it
would answer better than for anything
else, the purpose of soaring crows from
a corn field. Belfast is over eight tunes
the size of Salt Lake. and l would al
most wager that less eosmetique, or
powder. or wash,o complexion paste or
what-ye-may-call it is used here than in
the beautiful city that nestles at the foot
of the Wasatch, and where there are as
many pretty girls as there are in this
place, though it is but one-ninth the
size.
Of course, all this talk about Irish
the good fortune of your correspondent
to see many truly beautiful maids; but
when one considers that all, (save few
that are favored by fortune) are forced,
when ten to twelve years of age, to
work to help along the family, it makes
quite difference. And the work is
hard, too; in mills and factories, or at
ropewalks, or in similar occupations,
and they have little time left, after the
hard labor of the day is over, to specu-
late about complexion, or dress, or
figure; and less means to crafty the
taste they may possess. 1t is little
wonder that they grow tall and spare,
badly colored, and coarse il voice. and
speech and manners. The girls in Utah
land all this applies to young men and
boys as well) have no conception of how
enviably they ale circumstaDced, as a
class, compared with poor people here.
Perhaps no better way of showing the
condition of the Old World, morally,
religiously and socially, can be formed
than by calling attention to the number
of societies formed for the purpose of
remedying such evils as the law and
modern Christianity seems pewerless to
check. 1t must be borne in mind that
these organizations make no pretensions
to striking at the root of an evil, but
only of counteracting the effects of
organized vice, and are set on foot and
maintained by weIl-dis POSTPONED people
who see the evil, but have not penetra-
ton enough to discover the cause, and
who further hope to supplement the
efforts of policemen under laws that are
themselves sapless scorpses. Despite
these associations; despite the most
active endeavors of earnest and philan-
thropic souls. it is admitted that crime
and misery are on the increase and that
the faster measures are enacted for the
suppression of evil. the greater is the
cunning by which the villainous man.
age to counterfeit and nulify the good.
So general is this rule that one might be
lead reasonably TO infer that the pre-
ponderance of intellect in an intellect
ual' world is enlisted on the side of vice
aud rascality. There is in London a
Society for the Prevention of Traffic
in English Girls" 1.-THE London Com
mittee for the Suppression of Traffic in
English Girls, 1.-The Minors Joint Pro-
lection Committee" the white Rib
bon Army" the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children" the
Society for the Protection of Women
and Children the London CITY Mia
sion.r the "Reformatory and Refuge |
Union" the Rescue Society" PIN
leo Ladies' Association the Moral |
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