Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-06
Trssr :siors aGa Virginia EsEvs.

pEstf 'S2SST GA u EEcsIEs:. Etsy'E.
The first impressions Intelligent foreign
er0 In relation to us as Il nation are alWays
Interesting. met last week young En-
lish gentleman who has been making a quiet
tour throughout the United STATES, and as
there is g little romance Herewith thial, it
| will interest you. .'What most impresss d
you?' asked him, after comfor!abla din
ner, and as We sat with a cigar: We'll, - be
replied, after Thoughtful pause. "nct IKE
greatness Of your counlry, tbouGh vas
surprised enough TO end pyosporoi!4 cities
1000 miles sway from ycur &enica!d,
and ti!a handsome$t little tbeaira | have
ever saaE ant w'lt,e was in Denver. 1hn
most astonishing feature Of he United
| States 10 ma g It's youhg wouru-y1uni:
| ladieS you Cali then mere, ] nciicr From
| Newport and LvuoS TO the lltt!s Watering.
places al: over your country they are the
a"I"&--hrlSh', audaCIous, &Wse,:y 3ewi;i-T-
ing. They ne"i 10 chaperoues. s1r they are
strong ii tE@ir oWn inuocence Their vii.
their esprit, IS a revelation 10 liz from the
oide: civilization. They tiink no evil. ana!
their brightness, cievernees, Ani gl::y
sense OF the ludicroLs is unlike au;t:liug
| eve: imagined in feminine character Why.
IN their knowledge OF po.Itiaa! matters
alone they almost take cna'S breath away.
| can now understand how il is that thee
are SO fascinating 10 people outside Of their
own country, aud are taking The bast mat
rlmonal catches away from our girls at
home. IL dress they have the taste Of p
| Parisian dame, with II culg OF tne. own.
But 1t "as not ~ The great watering
| nl1ppS Rrap -
toga that | saw the best and truest ty;!as Of
the American girl, ne continued. I'm your
cities they seem TO think it desirable ia GER
tain SETS to affect the manners and customs
OF our women in England This takes from
them their chief attraction, their distinctive-
ness, their charming Individuality" Hear
this, Oh ye feminine English imitators J
"Weli, we Eugl!shmen don't like it at ail.
We come here To see the Americans, III their
| own proper character aud person, and not
as lmitatoIs OF Gs in doubtful matters Of
form ut home. Let ne tell you" aa,! this
scion Of q noble i}ouse, Something about the
most beautiful and charming woman have
ever met, bar none. ! saw her .: q little
9pa-watering place, you would call it--in
the Virginia mountains She was the
daughter Of /: geai!asna: who lived not very
lar lrom the place We "c:e staying at. She
had never seen great city, nor indeed q
touu larger than Richmond, hut once in her
life, and tina: was when she came with her
fatiIcr 10 Washington when your President
WAS inatalcd-inaugura!ed, | think you call
ii. don't you
But, my dear boy said ho rising and
walking the floor in his earnest excitement,
"in gentle breeding, perfect manners, rea!
culture, ard everything else that makes II
woman fascinating, she waa simply the love-
ieSt creature | ever met! Sho had the
most perfect figure, and such i walk! |
never imagined it could DO seen outside OF
Anda!usis OF beyond the perfume of the
orange grnves Of Seville. Added to this
were her personal attractions tbs. sweetest
gray blue eyes and hair of tho tawney au-
bnrE brown, that shade beloved Of the gods!
When got to know her little, I asked her
where she was educated, and how she had
gathered i'll the wonderful store Of knowl-
edge she was possessed Of. i was not ed.
ucated anywhere she answered; I never
went TO a school day in my life I after.
wards learned that she had heen very care
fully trained at home, and that what she
. had said about being educated nowhere in
particular was perfectly true
"Bu5 fancy" he continued. fascinated
with his theme. "fancy, say, such thing
in England Why it couldn't be, YOU know!
Aud the most perfectly Innocent cresture,
too. We rode miles upon miles together, on
very good horses too-clever hacks they
have in those Virginia hills-without a
chaperone or anythiog By Jove, it was
bewildering TO me, don't you know? 90
WELL" said l, "a his enthusiastic state
ment ended abruptly and il little sigh
there isn't much mora 10 tell YOU" he Fl.
nally answered with d sort Of e gasp. Her
father fine old fellow he waa 100, had been
a famous light horse man during your war;
asked me to his place for fortnight.
never had sucn Il time. More charming
perfect hospitality enc could not imagine
My daughter sill show you all that j:
worth seeing ii the country said her faith
er the morning after my arrival, and so she
did. had such a coed iine, but was liv.
ing iu q FOOLS paradise, though, after all
You see, in England if girl had given hel
society 20 exclusively TO auy man it woulC
have meant hut Que thing, and that mar
! r!age. But all things come to an end. Twl
j. days before I left there arrived a straight
backed, tall, handsome young felew, aler
and ready in manner, with an eye like
hawks. She called him Cousin Tom. Well
: somehow, though Cousin Tom was perfectly
frank in his manner toward me, aud he
courtesy was the same, still felt deuceC
uneasy and uncomfortable, don't you see
Though ! hsd been rather syoony l hat
never actually proposed. | ion'r know
why | had wondered what my mothe
: would say when I wrote her that wa
about to marry a young lady from Virginia
. who had never been educated anywhere
Q and ali that had told her tathe, Al ahou
myself and my prospects. TO which ha liz
leued with cour!sous attention, out askec