The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-02

GOSSIP ABOUT THE MEN AND
WOMEN OF ENGLAND.


of Men.
feel convinced that am the only truthful
American who has ever been abroad, and, in
this vast city of London, have passed ten days
in a stunned and paralytic condition brought
about by the wanton duplicity of a previously
Travelled acquaintance. How any one short
of an imbecile could consider London unin-
teresting passes in intelligent comprehension,
though one can easily understand that tho
average tourist, fired with the noble deterInina-
ton of ",iong" the continent in two months,
should fly from the vastneSS of Ioni2n,
Whose every inch of ground ~ saturated with
the history, poetry AMI romance OF the
Anglo Saxon race, and divert his feeble
mind with the frivolity of modern Paris.
Neither high nor low is to lie seen of the
traditional SCOT and filth of much maligned
London-au contraire, this is the cleanest,
brightest place Imaginable, but with sharp,
clear wind that bloweth where it listeth after
the same uncomfortable, unexpected manner
of the San Francisco breezes. The oft re-
Peatsd assertion that one does not need
clothes, and plenty of them too, while travel
ing acroad probably sprung from the envIouS,
spiteful mind of some woman who found her
self there without them and has taken this
low revenge ON her SEX Never has the vital
necessity of beautiful dinner gowns been so
borne in upon me ut the present writing.
All one hears, reads and laughs at of badly
dressed English women may lac accepted
blndly, without even the proverbial grain OF
salt, 81 long as they are considered while
taking their walks abroad.
DRESS or ENGLISH WOMEN.
In truth. they are all inconsistent in tho
matter of attire suited to their soil and
CLINE that, even at this chilly season, III AN at
mosphere which causes a civilized American
To ShiNer under IA warm wool costume, the
English girls and women wander about the
streets the hotels, the galleries, the parks, the
restaurants, in cambrics linens and muslins-
pinks, blues and withdrawing them, too,
with a compliment self satisfaction that, III
view of their absuriity, is perfectly madden
ing. The other day at the Royal academy.
ut the exhibition of modern paintings ana
statuary, which are exquistely beautiful and
far more entertaining than the antiques" nj
the National gallery, which, entire nous, sim
ply bore one to madness, L was nevertheless
50 diverted by the bad dressing that the pic
lures became n secondary consideration. Tho
day thick, rainy and hopelesSly dark,
yet "a lot of poverty stricken looking young
persons appeared III delicate lawns and hgh!
and osiious silks, to which an American wouli
unhesitatinGly prefer death the alterna-
tive
TRIUMPHS OF ART.
But however hideous ON the street, the
English woman Mt TIN. dinner table is superb
She is lit up at night rs it We're, with the gas
and the canlelabra- She is u glorious crea-
ture, who blooms out at eventi,le like the
flowers and tAits that toll not, and she sheds
"a certain radiance down IA hotel dining room
which is more than startling To the American
!, eyes, accustomed to the somher silks in which
err country women grace the festive public
board Fancy huge sale a manager
brilliantly Illuminated, deliberately decorated
with flowers, the table adorned 10y hundreds
of wax taIers, fruit and ornaments of gilt and
brass, around which men and women in the
fullest of full dress eating their separate
dinners rs calmly as il III the seclrIson of pri-
yate houses. OF course it is question of
taste whether it is entirely good form to APP
pear thus decollette i'll IA public dining room.
tn which any deccntiy dressed individual may
h. admitted ON the payment of the price foI
dinner which il 81 10 but every one does it
here with "a result that is certainly very deco
rative, gay and nice tn look upon. They rise
from the table equipped for theatcr oper,
and small halls Though l believe a different,
a more elaborate AMI IA more decollette attire
is donnei for large balls and proceed to shed
the luStrc on their white nccks, brilliant eye.
ami shining, well dressed heads over soms
other household for the rest Of the evening.
CHARMS AND DEFECTS.
What neckS these English women have.
Marvels of marble beauty, white, firm, satin
skinned and with full, round threats that arc
beautifully sensual But anything worse
than their comllcXions can scarcely bo
imagined. Except when very young the
handsomest of thoSe women are distigured by
a coarse, red chin, like the ruIly check of a
British tar, which, rising above an alabaSter
neck, produces the disagreeabc effect of an
ugly mask. And their armSi OH! their
arms! Where ON earth they get such huge,
dsjointe.i, gaunt, uncouth, masculine appen-
dages il fool for deep reflection. They
apparently have no connection with
the rest Of the body. They give one
the impression that they are some
thing abnormal and extra, which have been
hung unsuccessful experiment, and
yet the fond prOIrietoiS wave them about,
rel, naked, hi,icous, their ugliness accumulated
by cumbrous bracelets on all possible occa-
si,7,ls, aI.d this with an unutterable, adorable
sang froid which is an EngliShwoman's great
est charm. The British natron of advancing
years Is certainly not beautiful to outward
view, though imbued with n stern respecta-
biiity which suggests CAESARS wife. She is
devoted t. evening dress" and adheres Ia it.
i'll spite Of PROTESTING nature, one of the
traditions Of her country, and each evening
places her mature ami overlooking charms ON
exhibition, with faithful devotion IL duty
which il worthy n better cause.
PRAISE OF ENGLISHnEN.
But the men are a.lorahlel A magnificent
race of creatures a lot of heroic, hcrculean
Apollos, with IA length, a breadth, n thickness
and strength which dazzle the woman ia
miliar with the nondescript mascuiinity OF
America. They are huge, high colored and
handSnme-even though rake and reprobate
are written on each line of their faces, as in
deed it very often is. Then there is such a
pro.iisiouS lot of them! They swarm every
whcre-eIcgant, dominant, powerful fascln-
ating, and III a Sl,lsnior of attire which may
la likcncd only L. the rising sun. Perhaps.
after all, as "a feminine tributc to their strength
and beauty, it is not wonderful that our
native born American citizen should SINCE his
brain with AnGlnmanii aud our proud Amer