The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-01
WOMAN GOSSIP.
Charming Daughters Of America and their
Social Success In Par!s.-Clara
Bellies Ideas of Fashions.
Fashionable Girls and Their Latest Craze
Notable knittrrs of Stncisings-WO-
men-ROunanian Amazons.
THE AMERICAN GIRL IN PARIS.

II AMERICAN GIRL IN PARIS.
The Paris Figaro. discussing the sue
cess of Americans i'm French society,
says: Let not our good Brother Jona-
than carry his head too high. Ii is not
through him, but through his charming
daughters, that American society has
gained its present proud position in
Paris. How captivating the American
girl is in society! From the moment
when she made her first appearance in
the salons of Paris she created Il perfect
Juror. Her engaging manners, her free
dom from restraint. her familiar shake
hand ut once conquered that class of
young men-mOre numerous than most
people imagine-who frequent doubtful
society o N account of their excessive
timidity when in good society. What
III be more pleasant to an embarrassed
youth in company than to have the on
versation started and carried on by a
pretty, chatty girl, totally devoid of false
mOdesty and awkwardness, and having
rarely, if ever, an arriere-pensee of mar
riageP Nor a we conceive anything
more pleasing for a young man than to
be chaffed and frightened up, SO to
speak, by pretty girls-for such the
American girl always is-who have nom
of that stiffness and g~aucheyie, neither
the hands nor feet nor love of gaudy
colOrs so characteristic of their Anglo
Saxon great-grandmothers.
But this is not all. If the American
girl has not invented Irritation, she has
certainly brought it to its highest per-
fiction. 1t must never be forgotten that
it was she who first introduced into the
Partisan salons that delightful and I'M
rivaled innovation known as the Boston
dance. The waltz is charming. capti-
waiting, if you will, but it lacks one
source of enioyment.you can not chat
with your partner. In the Boston dance
you may talk to your hearts content.
This dance which is SO vOluptuously
slow, and which is besides as applica-
BILE TO the air of the polka, the mazurka;
and the quadrille as to those of the
waltz, is the surest auxiliary of the flirt.
The dancer leads the danseuse back
ward or forward, into this corner or
that, and as they glide between the
couples in their easy. undulating move
ments he may pour into her ear the odl-
EN- tale. This is an undoubted triumph
owe the waltz. which can only be IN
joyed with sealed lips.
A great many American girls have
married into families Of the French no
bility. This affords Il chance to the re-
publican journals frequently to poke
fun at the aristocracy for their eager
ness to secure these plebcian queens.
Of course it sometimes happens that the
proud descendant of the crusaders is
more in search of wealth than Il wife,
and that the young lady is more in
| search of n title than a husband. But
this is not always the case. Whether
she possesses a dot OF not, the American
girl i'm Paris has no difficulty i'm step
ping by marriage into the highest cir
cles of the French nobility. Among the
many women who have married mem
bers of the French aristocracy the fol-
lowing names will be known to many
Americans: Princess Murat. mother OF
the Duchess de Mouchy; the Marquise
de Chasscloup Laubat, Comtessc de
Saint Roman, Mime. In Generate. Cont
esse Olivar dc { he 'igne. and the daugh-
ter of the late Nj. Ridgway, who is now
the Comtessc dc Ganay. These. and
numberless others equally well known,
are among the leaders of wealth and
fashion in the capital of civilization.