The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-09-26
WOMANLY BEAUTY.
rs, American Girls Are More
Reaufiful Than Others.
u.xe the snap--A Compare
x,,h the women Of the Old
world.

= ether morning, ana a. AasE tCHAt
ths ~. srs.y and hot, | jumped into
i0a,zs ..nso and vent up 70 Central
49, ~ b-eakfast. As | crossed
-: s.r avenue. the driver pulled his
-. n 10 allow a woman with a
ns.a.sss,tshly handsome figure 70 switch
r.. -. 8 font Of rs. The horse
go s:,r..sl On the stores, and there was
- Il feminine drapery, a the
,ass..riau jumped across our path,
- - ssrrexIy escaped being knocked
=. IN the way. She dropped one
-. ggeves and looked a biz fright
= - / Jumped cut OF the iIansoIn-
recognized her-restored her
2. and told her that the driver and
w. ,sct intended 70 run over her.
n 1;dnft know YOU al FIRST, said
-, hsve grown 30 much thinner.
spssher I said the girl. ssiA painting
s-..s ber violent jump 20 get out 81
~. 81 the horses hoois. This il
vhas does u. s.
=. : ,near Walking IN the early morn
- > she added. II get up and take
VI taast and tea and then walk
Il One Hundred and Eighth
ssreet and back every day Of my lie
I. 800 me three hours when ! first
hsran some time ago, and new ] DO II
q n ho1r and forty minutes
aAyK lost ToBrY-Two PONDS.
81 .appose there's no use in offering
xon 4 isit them
- ~ shook her head. waved her
tsr.i and started of. had not seen
- n 4 year. and the change vas Won
aers,,I She had been fat and jolly,
sut rather indolent girl. gith slow
wsv 81 speaking and a great fondness
far the corner Of her trim little vic
tara. She IS very popular, socially.
srI had given promise Of being great
Laaatv when she was IL or II but she
hal grown so stont. that the promise
hsd not been fulfilled. Her exercise,
however, had wrought a wonderful
change. She had grows straight, held
htr shoulders back. her head IN the
sir and the bullying contours OF her
frure had given way to the most bea-
filuI and symmetrical lines inag.n-
ahle Bus the training had done more
than this, for il gave her formerly col
orless cheeks dash Of red, had bright
eued her eyes. and even driven the
saziness and Incidence out Of her talk.
/ mused over this for awhile, and
her picked up i paper and read =
thrilling account Of how another re-
markabiv handsome woman had lost
her beauty through too much cham
pzgae and truiiies, and was getting y
baek BIZ exercise, Miss Pauline Hail.
leAfned, was reducing herself by
riding q bicycle man-lashion every
morning shortly after daybreak, up
above the city limits.
i DISMISSED THE HANSON
When We got into the paFk and walked
slowly toward the Casino. IL was
then about Z 80, and the driveway and
walls we're deserted but as ! crossed
The bridle-path above the mall, il was
my turn to Jump, for horse vas conf
ing down on the soft mould Of the path
sta pace that was terrific, ard, on It's
back. sat beautiful girl, with her
hands well down and shoulders BAGS /,
and an air OF utter uncDneefn on her
face. | started back, but Il was Use
less. for the horse was stopped with q
quick pull on the reins 10 fashion
lhat made me stare.
Ii was a chestnut horse. with q
roana-barrel body, slim legs. bright
eyes and aaring nostrils IL has been
the fad Tor a long while for coaehmen,
both here and In England, 10 drive
their horses at a bri-k trot 10 the door
And then stop them like shot. while
shey are going at full speed. The
horse are trained 80 that they throw
their forelegs stiifiy oat, and, though
il usually throws the carriage some
what forward, the effect Is wholly
gratifying is spectacular sense.
hal never seen this sort of thing
executed en- horseback. though ! have
seen remarkable horsemanship NJ oH-
ierent times. In the park, however
the horse vas stopped ~ precisely
this fashion, and l Involuntary
glanced up ia the air TO see the rider
shoot ap toward the sun. But she
sat IN her seat like n centanr,
Glanced 20 know her. IL was Esteiie
Clayton the actress and ashed her
aow SHE ceUlo ggEr HER STAT.
i have been praciiciae.N she said,
Tor some time. ride here, every
morning. for two hours, beginning at
O'clock. II keeps me in excellent
trim, yuu know
The statement carried weight, for
her checks were red and her eyes
bright She had the look Of excite
ment and health that IS occasionally
seen In the face Of a 10 fear-oli girl az
her drst hall. Then / was treated 70 a
small exhibition of horsemauskip by
Miss CLAYTON. She had trained the
horse she said. with the idea o. intro
aGelug him into her dramatizstipn ol
The Quick or the Dead when she
plays ri n New York.
There's a runaway scene IN the
play she said, and ! have trained
the horse ~ stop quickly, 50 that J
car he rescued in fail sight OF the
audience
ltstuacs me a being rather an am
hihoas scheme. but | have not the
tSirtcst belief IN the world that it can
be carried ont for. Il they ever intro
dgre that horse on the stage II a tho
alter. L viii he decidedly dangerous
thing for the audience a. well rs the
star
Before | left the path, fully hall q
hundred horses had passed nae, and
Oh the backs of bait OF them were glris
riding hard and fa.t. II was a beauty
show Of the rarest sort. and aside from
iais feature. L showed that everybody
didn't leave New York in the summer
Nearly all OF thr women displayed
TIN AsERictN rYeE ~ BEAUTY.
Strangers have said that there is no
essentially feminine type Of beauty IN
America. bat 81. seems g. We they are
wong lnflhe first place. one can tel
a American girl in any portion 81
ias worid az 3,tlnce Of 100 yards.
IN The secuad pigre nearly al of oul
Pretty girls have the same character
isscs-a good coior. expires iyc ewes,
sia 9 singaiWiy beautiful delicacy 81
The de,jcacv Of outline which ou'
eeaatn boast is not 20 bee found else
sheIe IN the World For iRstance. ia
Cubs and Spain t6e ewes ol tie women
aie eiorlots, hst 3heir Noses and chin,
az Nuai ana isetie. in Easland.
N women NAV De stately but the
eses are absolutely without expression
ahste ~ France. Germany. Austria
a. en- Tue continent generally "a,
eps oiheanty is SO much below that oi
W women. tina; ig does not heal
seaparison, With the solitary execp
eoa perhaps, of she women gt Vienna
~ breakfast [ recalled the jsrct
saAst'ieoine 9oDe0 O. whom ms at en-
va kad been directed that morning
IS 40 aii 81 whom had been traingns
Lac athletes tp enhance their persona
eesuty. Then I remembered Other