Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-25
PRETTY AMERICANGIRLS
Why They are SO Captivating 10 the
Euglish-The Warm Blooded
Maidens Of the Southland.
The uhanpagne. Drinking and Poker Play
Ing Of America NOT truly
Refined.
New York Letter in Albany journal.

New lork Letter in Albany Journal
"The reason oui American girls arc so
charmingly received by the English aris-
tooracy," writes Mrs. james Brown Pot
ter in private and, as yet, unpublished
letter to Mrs. Mortimer Livingston,
neighbor OF mine--''the reason tbcy are
received so kindly is because our girls
are interesting and attractive. English
men like our girls on account OF their
pretty, chatty, fiirtish way. The English
girl Is stiff and angular. She Is not self
poised. The presence Of royalty quite
overcomes her, and when she meets the
prince OF Wales she Is so abashed that
she cannot entertain him. The cold EN-
giish girl actually stands speechless
with awe, while the American girl looks
up with unconscious navete and chats
away with him as II he were an ordinary
man. Our girls are accustomed to gentle
mems society from early womanhood.
This society makes them bright, full Of re-
partee, apt TO apropos answers, and viva
cious in sallies Of wit. IL is this that car
RES the prince by storm. 1t is this, and
this alone, that opens the icy gates OF
aristocracy to the warm, sunny American
girl
1t is only late thing that our Northern
girls have been talking themselves into
the icy circles OF English aristocracy.
The first assaults were made by ,he
warmer blooded girls Of the South. Be-
fore the war Miss King Of Georgia won
with her beauty the Marchioness OF
Anglesea, and old John Magruder's niece
| fried with Lord Abinger till he made her
his lady and divided a coronet. The first
New York girl to capture lord was Miss
| McVicker, who married Lord Grantley
| Then Leonard Jerome settled $4,000 q
year on Lord Randolph Churchill, and in
cluded the beautiful daughter in the bar
gain. Miss Yznaga, now Lady Mande-
Vile, actually became the fut-
ure duchess Of Manchester by her beauty
and silver tongue. she was poor girl,
living down on Eighth street, in modest
brick house, but her viNacity carried her
into the Belmont polo set. Lord Mande-
vile, a mere STRIPPING, came over here,
met Miss Yznaga, fell head over heels In
love, and married her. Lady Vaudeville
is now a leader in London. They say she
is helping other bright American girls to
marry English coronets. Among other
American girls who have married into the
English nobility, are Miss Libby, who be.
came the Hon. Mrs. Darlington; Miss
Stevens, who married the son Of Lord
Paget, an old sweetheart OF the queens
and Miss Livingstone, who married d
cousin Of the duke OF Portland. And now
1t seems that English coronets are going
begging among our American girls, fol
Miss Grant has Just refused Lord Cairns
because he wanted her to pay for her own
engagement ring. OF course we have
American women, like Mrs. MAckAy and
Mrs. Paran Stevens, who buy positions
with money, presents, and expensive en-.
! tertainments, but then they could moi
/ succeed If they didn't surround them.
selves with bevies OF beautiful American
girls. The prince and his set 20 any
where to see lovely girls ana be enter
tanned. Mrs. Hicks-Lord did everything
even to turning Catholic, TO get high
place in England, but she didu't bait hei
trap with the self-poised, flirting, laugh
ing American girl, and failed.
, The young married beauty VINO fllleC
: her slipper with champagne at the Whit,
!, Sulphur and gave 1t to Baltimore gallan
to drink was at the Fifth Avenue hote
yesterday. She certainly is very beau
} t,ful woman and wears very small slip
per. The lady herself is Washingtonian
and the Five.Points Sir Walter Raleigl
who drank the wine from the slipper is
growing attorney from Richmond. Th
lady said she was sorry she did 1t now
"but 1t was at champagne party AM
they were all excited with wlne." Whe'
some one asked her II she respected tn
young man for INDUCING IN such Baby
lopian politenesS she said; "No, not a
all. When think OF 1t now l have a
utter disgust for him. did not give hin
the slipper. 1t came of accidentally
when the silly-fellow seized 1t, filled
e with champagne, and drank to m
. health"
At Saratoga this summer was sorry :
see as many as forty ladies every nigh
down at the old John Morrissey club
house. One could stand in the doorwa
q and at the same time see 100 men gam
! bling and thirty women drinking cham
g payne and eating. These women are no
!. our refined American women, though the
stopped at the best hotels. They were
2 set Of women who dote on yacht and hors
!. races and play poker tor money In thei
s rooms at night. The poker-playing gil
! and shoe-drinking gallant should spen
Y their summers at the Hot Springs Il
6 Arkansas. Our girls have all got 3
/ learn that 1t is sweetness and innoccnc
K that captivate man, not boldness an
!. rudeness. A refined woman would no
Y marry man who, like Comanche Indian
would use her slipper for a champaign
glass. 1t is gentleness, modestY, an,
sincerity that touch the opposite heart
II was kind heart and q feeling yoic
8 that won the little newsboy's heart. II
+ WAS standing in the wind, and when tn
little girl bought paper OF him she said
= "Poor little fellow, amt you very coldS
= 81 was, ms'am, before you passed." h
J, replied.
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