Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-01
ylyEEE GIRLS ABROAD.
....,,, 1,Ilt7NirHS EARN TttIB
"a. FROM THE BRITISH.
srit4ful Dowaeer Said OF Two
american Girls, ana ha1 "'
,,,,p Niece Thought of Ahem'

.,-,..+ a spitefnI DOwaeer SAID OF Two
""'' moan Girls, and what Her sweet
,,, Niece Thought of Them.
r,o,a tie Ne,O York Star.
,oxnoN, sept. 15.-It is very curious
=. ohsaryo the high dudgeon into "h'cn
' ~ o mammas and their daughters are
1'.',vn by the growing favor OF the
...,.rican beauty in the matrimonial
hot here. In spite Of sill their efforts
a~ai,st her. in spite of the fact mat she
VS. been the vogue now for several sea-
80 in snIte, too, of few little pecu-
'."n'ios in herself, Miss Columbus con-
,i1.,,os n hold her own in English draw
;nc, rooms and the marriageaDie young
,non crowd around her chair and NIL her
nrooramme three deep, leaving Miss Al
b;on and her mother very often seated III
oo1d neglect by the wall. l was convers-
Co,V rocentlv with an estimaole doWager
- q room in which pair OF americans
,,-oro as usual, carrying all before Inem'
Sbe was smaTting at the tlhe unueI
oini o she had Just seen put upon
sllerIF tbree nieces of whom she was the
one ", fair group of English
1
What do YOU men see in these ankee
women p, she asked 90 my delight VINO
love TO hear woman start lnto crltlcal
consideration Of her sex J.
~ rive If M" said l. "You know Pm
,raiudiced party, and while l hate the
Sdvon man | adore the Saxon woman"
Tho reader will make allowances for my
circumstances-this speech was not
frank. "Miss Vanderdollar appears 10
me to squlnt, and her voice IS as low as
the creep Of a mouse, norrlole thlhg III
sucb big woman. AS for the otner, she
talks. talks, talks, a scrap ABOUT every
subject under the sun, never appearing To
oct tired anv more than il she were one
Of the monographs OF her countryman
Edison into which all manner OF people
from opera singers to popular preachers
hal talked q sentence or sung staVe or
two. That's what think of them. One
of ,pm has no voice and the other is 'VoX,
ct praterea nihil.'"
The speech, pray the reader to ob'
serve. was equally uncandid, but IL mad
be effect intended of putting my doWa-
.er into a sympathetic humor.
"Come, now" ] ventured to plead on
the strength of this effect, "tell us what
You think Yourself makes the men run al
ter the YaDkeesW
''They're improper" she replied, calm
", ''and men always like that"
depressed any sign otmy astonishment
and simply said:
Eyes; but men don't like improper
women for their wives, and | hear Miss
Beaconhill has had five good Offers"
"Her dollars have had"
Not at all. She has no dollars. She's
poor And YOU know to young Acrely
moneys no object. If it were he'd have
married his cousin, according to the fam
lily arrangement"
well, then, it's what l say; they're
improper. / suppose the men find il
pquaut 10 meet that sort OF thing in So
Getty instead of going -ab-elsew where for
it. Besides l have 10 doubt the CONVEX
satiOn OF weIl-brought-up girls pals
upon the present generation, aud the
world is getting very bad nowadays"
Good gracious, you don't mean to I'M
ply that Miss"
ooh, by no means. Do YOU think Pd
be capable of such thin? Bat Just
listen to that chit now telling Capt. Curly
that his mOustacne is iuet lovely, and the
way his hair waves over his brow is quite
a dream? What do you say to that? The
men like it, at any rate, you can't DENY.
And that's the whole difference. To our
girls, thank heaven, such talk IS impossi-
be- ] suppose Acrely thinks it would be
nice to have wife that would tell him
every day that the color of bis cheeks
was just tde thing she was striving to hit
upon for some pinks she was painting.
minute ago the other one told Curly she
was dying to 60 to mess if she'd be let,
and smoke cigarettes. She had been read
ihg Dulda, and she thought guardemen the
most spleSdld fellows in the world. Think
Oh nat! And Oulda, tool She spoke of
some French books also, which must have
been dr. altully bad"
give tuis dOwager's remarks as q fair
sample OF The criticism of the enemy.
American readers. | am sure, wifi be
amused, II not shocked, at the way Miss
CoumOla's ways strike the British of her
own SEX But it is really The highest
compliment that can be paid her. 1t
comes OF British insularity, hypocrisy
anu envy, ana the conclusion all my OBJ
eelFaIlon leads me to is that by next sea-
son you Will see the most violent attemnt
en- the part of English women in society
10 initiate the American manner. Ii
must come. 1t has begun already.
Jealously has English prejudice held out
@sdiheC the allurlng peculiarities of
american womankind. But the citadel
at last mas surrendered, and the dauCb-
lers OF Albion will henceforth endeavor
10 meet the American invaders with their
own weapons. They will become (if il be
III the capacities Of the British nature at
VII more American than the Americans.
Tue same evening l talked with one OF
.ne hleces OF the ladE above referred TO.
sue was an honest, STRAIGHTFORWARD girl
sensible TOO, and clever, and had lust be-
tul 10 perceive by the light OF her ac-
gGaihtance with American girls how
,alse' nypocritlcal and unattractiye were
tn e niltisn notions OF what Ia called
pTopretY" Here's what she said:
only wish | could talk like these
tasneflcans. They say out lust what thew
..Sluk, ana they say it charminQlv. and
,HeIe is no harm in what they think-and
tuats more, am sorry to say, than can
1 Ie salu Tor what many Of the meekest
5o yl. English girls think. They know
I9I and they know such nice things.
1 ruu lheir thoughts are free, pure and
mrS"uh-lt is the frankness of innocenee-
ttuey are not afraid to SAY what thew
sa,uA, because they think nothing 10 be
eS ooa' nl'eO OF, and II does not occur TO them
r |S"s II VIII De misunderstoud-by their
v "n N'eh AT any rate. BY the wav. how
W. "eu cleSnef and even nohler minded
a 'n ,' 'ne Amerlcan men he than ours. NJ
tuv' IDere Is great deal in that, too
,o ,n lueif men. The American men de-
,Sl'e great deal OF credit, | think, for
en-, A'Nsi can WOmeH-.and vice versa, 1
ho a. mentioned to this young woman what
no, uuHt had said about the converse
cOnhnI. "'i'@' anu 'Aiss DeA-
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