The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-17
FACTS FoR LADIES.
Superior Beauty OF American and Bloom
ing Middle Age of German Women.

Superior Beauty OF American and Bloom
ing Middle Age of German Women.
A greater number of American
women are here now than have ever
seen before at this Athens on the Spree.
1t is fairly conceded that there is more
of what is called chiseled beauty in
America than in Europe German
ladies, IN general elegance of bearing
and beauty and grace of person, can
bear no comparison to American wo-
men. The features of the latter are
finer and their heads more classical.
But here ends their triumph. Their
busts are inferior to those of the native
women, and a certain attenuation in
the whole figure of the American wo-
man gives the idea of frugality and
decay. What the American women
want is soundness of constitution
Their finely-cut faces are too often
pale instead of fair, and sallow when
they should be rosy. But why are
many of the German women so awk-
ward? Why have they such large feet,
and why is their taste in dress no bet
ter? Beautiful compilations and full
cies, nor can thoroughly cultivated
minds and kind hearts.
In this country woman is in the
prime of her attractions at thirty-five.
She frequently remains almost station
airy until fifty, or else declines gradu-
ally and gracefully, like q beautiful
day melting into lovely evening. In
America twenty-five is the farewell
line of beauty in women, beyond which
comes decay. At thirty-five she gen
orally looks little worn, her fiat chest
symboliZing the disappearance of vigor
and vitality, and at forty you see in her
features quite plainly the marks of
premature age.
German children, especially girls,
are less brought forward than Ameri-
can ones. In America the children, as
a rule, all take their meals with their
parents and see all the company that
comes to the house, consequently they
are less troubled with shyness than
German children. A German Girl of
sixteen or seventeen is much less in
dependent than an American girl of
the same age. She must never 90 out
alone, nor without a chaperone or a
female servant, usually known as q
bonnie. She must never speak to
gentleman unless he should be
especially introduced to her by her
parents, or with the appreciation of her
parents. Yet the German children are
generally overindulged and spoiled
BY their parents. Every one in the
house is expected to yield to them
They are rarely reproyed for crying,
nor is self-denial or self-restraint seri-
ously inculcated. Servants are re-
proved for not obeying them, and
every thing is done to induce them to
fancy themselves the most important
persons in the house. This mistaken
system of education renders them self
ish, overbearing and conceited. A
good deal of this egotism is knocked
out of them at school and at college,
but early impressions are never entire
" effaced, and the feeling remains,
only to be transferred to their own
children.
Why is it that the German women
are superior in freshness of looks and
in duration of beauty to their trans
atlantic sisters? Is the answer to be
found in the diet? [ have often
watched the diet of American ladies
passing through here. Hot biscuits
and tea are varied with preserves
made pound for pound, and endless
varieties of cake and the inevitable
pie. Pastry, which most children in.
this country are not allowed to touch
until they get their long frocks and
tail coats, is in American families the
everyday food of young and old. Tea
is the grand panacea for all fatigue,
low spirits, dampness, cold, pains in
the head and in the back, and for
nearly all the ills that flesh is heir to.
What mere human beauty could stand
such regimen?
Want of exercise in the open air is
che great enemy of female beauty
throughout the world. The transient
beauty Of the American women is no
doubt in a great degree to be attributed
to the extreme heat and variability of
the climate in America, which viii not
admit of the exercise requisite for
health. The moisture with which the
atmosphere here is generally impreg
mated exercises a most soothing lnhu-
ence upon the nervous system. In
America the dryness of the air keeps
the people constantly strung up above
the concert pitch. There they are all
the time under the influence of an
artificial stimulus They burn their
candles. so to speak, at both ends. The
blooming middle age of the German
woman is the grand distinctive feature
of Germany, and it is owing, not to the
absence of a special diet, but simply to
their inhaling a considerable quantity
Of fresh air both in summer and Win
ter Berlin Cor. ~. Z. San.