The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-11-22

easy smile OF one to whom the beau monde has been
familiar from her cradle. The New England girl Ia
usually easily recognized. Tier robes have not the
easy now and drape OF her Kuickerbocker sisters.
and, though her shoes would be rlne too large and
nat for Andalusan feet, her face marks one who has
long known the smoke OF the lamp, and whose
ripened culture makes the costume Of the Mcclellan
time letter known to her than Is tho latest toilette
mystery OF Felix Pipgat or Terriers creation to the
fair Pdr,sienne
From the Golden West comes to us some very
charming ensamplcs Of Occidental femininiiy.
What though the Chicago girl docs come down to
breakfast at the fashionable hotel with jcwel-be.
dcckod fingers and soiiaircs representing tho value
Of much picked pork In her generously developed
ears7 What though she ,riH sometimes speak in o
lone better adapted to the pralrlcs on n windy day
than TO the elegant repose oi the midday sale q
n,dnger of the modern hotel9 What would you
Her faults and frednines are inherent, born OF the
climate the city OF her nativity, OF the freedom and
frankness OF the illiin,tabc plains upon which her
baby eyes first opened. Pince duI DANES, for as a
friend she will be Kind, trus'y generous and faithful
wife, tender and true! Isnot this signaen,ont
better and more worthy of respect than II shc had
the learning Of the fair Athenian PHILOSOPHERS that
Percles loved and wooed In vaIn7
From where the tide washes the Potomac and
Chesapeake beach, from the pure streams that flow
| from icc-cold Kentucky springs In the bluegrass
| land; from the banks of far-ou Southern rivers
where the over-moan'ng pines sung her lullaby.
there comes TO the Nations Capital type of Ameri-
| can girl OF whom my poor pencil IL not worthy
| Not very well educated perhaps, for she grew up
Just her kirkland was healing from the scars of
savage war, she seems to know-by instinct per.
| haps-all that makes the sex adorable and worthy
| OF love and honor She does not read much, for she
has not been able to get the books. She knows moth
| ing Of the renaissance In art, aud mayhap has
never heard Of Ruskin, but when she has overcome
her shyness she can talk intelligenly AMI some
times with perception that astonishes, and lister
appreciative,y. she could not give you any OF tn,
rules Of dress that modern art has laid down. but mel
costumes are chosen with born good taste that Il
never at fault.
The Southern grl shines brightest at home. Sh,
has not forgotten the old,ime respect that children
should have for the mothers who gave them life
and the graceful affection In which she holds tn
grsy.haired woman who kept brave heart ami,
the horrors OF war ana IN the sickenipg days o
poverty and prvaton that followed In It's train an,
though she had nil this to bear, has taught her youn
daughters lessons OF sof-help, of courage IN mis-
fortune that can never he cfTaced. Those of tru
modest womanhood she did not need TO he taught
for they were inherent. When the Southern cir
walks on the Avenue she Is as distinctly recognza
bic as though she were marked from Georgia T" o
placaried tan Albanian" Her step is easy, for |
was learned from Dame Nature herself, and thu
slender feet might belong to the daintcs ankle tina
ever cleaned In the shadows of the Orange Walk a
Seville. You never knew before how lovely cos
tune OF simple white could be, aud yet you say I,
st.s
mner in the Rue de BAG could not he more eIec
tive in demoshing the masculine heart Ever
woman who sees her knows that that hat was IN
work Of the wearer's slender fingers, but how be
coming 1t Ia, lighted ny the softest, sweetest brown
gray eyes! Aud as yOu look your thoughts are mile
away from the crowded Avenue, and It's ever
changing scenes. You are young again and III
romance of the far South comes back. and you smel
the orange trees rs they were In bloom 80 man
years ago, and, with owen Meredith. you uncon
sciously say, Oh, that we were eternally young!"