Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-01

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the Whole business. 1t is that they can't
say thaJ these American girls are hus-
/ pand hunting tue way all of us are"
mere another interruption occurred,
/ which need not he detailed.
! "Ihey captivate our men, these girls, and
tney do so, not because they try with an
| Interior design, but because they try for
ans pure sake OF captivating, just as all
! girls do, you know"
IRIS was accompanied by a glance
! Wnlch, II the reader were to send for the
oastlnado for me, [ must mention caused
! another interruption with the object of
conveying an idea of the success which
attend the efforts of some girls in this di-
| rection.
| AND they appear surprised when
olerS OF marriage are made them which
our girls and their mammas would give
Ineir eyes for. At any rate, they refuse,
| winch is the most unkindest cut of all that
theV lnf1ict upon us. And do you know,
fancy your average American girl has
some fellows OF her own over there in
1ankeeland waiting for her all the while
some fellow who says, 'Amurrykin,'
VINO lives on the tape OF that ticker you
tell me of; who reads daily newspapers
! WIN horrible reverence-some fellow
Wnom sne Is quite true to, lc-tng VITA all
| ner shreWd little heart; whom she in
Waroly compares with perfect satisfac-
ton with the stiff British lords of crea-
tion who have bent their naughty necks
10 her yoke; whom she will entertain
| Wnen she goes home with comic accounts
OF her conquests (enjoying his twinges OF
jealousy); whom she will drill into
shape, instruct, order about, enslave alb
s0lutely-a!l Tor his good; whose sordid
| wall street mind, at her magic touch,
VIII flower and give forth perfume. who
VIII worship the ground abe walks upon;
ana who will quite rightly deem himself
the happiest married man in all crea-
| tiOn."
don't know if give this honest girls
speech verbatim, but it is as closely so as
can remember it, and l offer it to Miss
Beaconville and Miss Vanderdollar
generic names, | assure you) as a tri-
butte which they ought to be particularly
| proud of.
The truth is English society. which is
| content to be as immoral as the society Of
! Rome in its decadence, abhors improprie-
| ty. English society is still like those
Puritan elders described in De Gramont,
who went to demonstrate with Charles III.
about leaving the windows OF his palace
| open while he and his nymphs and satyrs
! were holding their revels. II his Majesty
would only pull down the blinds all would
be well. The elders did not object to
what took place, but to their being able to
most hypOcritical people in the world,
and in their efforts to reach their
| ideal Of what is proper they
bring up their blanches mees, as De
! Elorac calls tn I'm, to such habit of con-
cealment that three-fourths OF their
freshest and most innocent thoughts
find no expression. Consequently, other
things being fairly equal, an English girl
| VIII always appear to disadvantage be-
| TIrl " ltn hoo hon
brought up in an honester and purer at.
mOsphere. Men. however corrupt, will
always pay their highest HOMAGE to the
| Vlrtuous woman; but it is q new sensa-
| ton to Englishmen TO meet vIrtuOus
woman who Is not dull aud stiff, and who
| speaks and acts with spOntaneity, can
| dor and fearlessness. This manner effects
such charm that, as l have said, the
| blanches Dees of Albion are seriously
| considering the wisdom of remodeling
theirs after it. | only hope they may sue
| coed. But | doubt 1t. The American
girls manner comes not merely OF innO-
cence on the part Ot the girl herself, but
OF the presupposltion OF similar inno-
| cence, or at any rate cleanness of mind,
on the part of the man she is addressing
| English girls can hardly get into this way
| OF looking at English men. Moreover,
when an English girl relaxes with a man
at all, she is given to take refuge in dou-
! bic entendre, which would be absolutely
| unintelligible TO an American girl, who,
| having no arrieres pensees in her own
| speech, does not expect them in that of
| her partner. 1t is impossible fer English
| youths and maldens without Intentions
to enjoy those harmless flirtations which
| make society so much an affair of the
! young people in America, and which by
| making the company of pure women so
| attractive and so accessible, goes further
than anything else, in my judgment, to
| save your young men from falling into
| that slough of immortality into which the
| youth Of England begin TO wallow before
| they leave their schools or colleges.
| Much as she may wish it, a doubt if the
English girl will ever como to be able to
do with safety what her American sister
does when she ls at hOme-go on q days
| drive with young man, for a DAVIS eX-
cursiOn without chaperone. For IL is
perfectly true that in England il a wO-
man steps outside the boundary of mere
conventionality, outside the line drawn
by Mrs. Grundy, she is not safe. The
gangrene has eaten too deep Into English
life-society is rotten to the core.
In America a woman can travel alone
from one end of the land TO the other with
as absolute security, as the rich, rare and
beauteOus lady in the Irish legend can
travel night or day. -- In England no Wo-
man is safe travelling alone. The other
night was coming home in public con-
veyance. A respectable young woman,
looking like a well.to-do artisans wife,
sat opposite me, carrying a large basket
on her knee. A man-an old appearing
man, to boot-sat beside her and began
prosecuting her with meaning attentions,
squeezing up close to her, ogling her
and striving to draw her into converse.
ton. The poor woman looked to b. in the
greatest distress. /, sitting near the door,
touched the conductor on the elbow and
silently pointed out the scene. He only
laughed. An American conductor would
have stopped the bus and fired the old
rufi1an out on his head. Presently some
body beside me left the bus but the woman
leaned across and said: MAY sit next
you, sir" should nave mentioned that
l myself had an old lady under my
charge. l made room of course. Near
the end of the Edgeware road the woman
stopped the bus and got out. just before
the bus started again the man followed
her. tried to ret the conductor TO stop
him, but that officials answer was that
every body had right to get down where
he chose, and as the bus drove off |
could see the woman crossing from side
TO side Of the dark side street In her ef-
forts to escape the Rray-haired reprobate
who followed close at her heels. Don't
IL a.