The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-24
THE QUAKER CITY GIRL.
A Vast Improvement on Her Former
Self
From the Chicago Tribune

From the Chicago Tribune.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1O-"Do you OBJ
serve much change ?"I asked Philadelphia
of the swell set who had lived several years
abroad, and was now taking stroll in the
West End.
Zone decidedly" he replied.
''In whatP
"In women. | mean they look so much
more alive, so hardy though slight, clear
eyed elastic in their step, and full Of spirit
One hears good deal of talk of the deli
cacy of women in fashionable society in
America. The notion seemed to be well
founded, too, when, | first went abroad
But have come back to find them still
slender and wiry but SO far as l can judge
| quite as beautiful as the women of similar
social position in Europe"
1t was true for him, too 1t was clear to
a good many who had not been living
abroad that the Philadelphia girl of fashion
| has gradually been growing into a robust,
| healthy, and wide-awake, while, of course,
she has always been beautiful and charm
ing, creature. Her type dominates, too
| The pale nervous, languishing girl of the
drawing rooms of ten years ago has gone
The girl, who to-day greets you has strong,
hearty grip, and she pours out your tea or
sherry with hand that suggests a strong
|
shine with high health. Her cheeks are
brown with wind and sun, if she hasn't
danced them into paleness. Even if she has,
the first Lenten week by the sea, at Atlantic
| City or some of the other resorts where
| fashion goes in the penitential season to
mediate and pray, will restore the coat Of
| tan
Everything goes according to caprice,
| and the vogue to-day is for women to be
strong, and to go in for the things which
make strength. Men and boys are cheered
i'll their athletic strivings by the smiles Of
the fair. The Academy of Music was
crowded few nights ago with the flower
of society to applaud the achievements Of
young swells who ran and leaped and
! jumped, one young sprig of fashion awaken
| ing a burst OF feminine enthusiasm by
| springing clear over two horses, equal to
any feat of its kind even in professional
| circus But athletics are not left to men,
! Women and girls go in for them, at least in
their own mild way. and they are as en-
thusiastic as the most successful college
oarsmen.
What do they do9
| Well, they ride and they fence and DO
the trapeze act in boomers and short Jack
cts; they walk and they go in for dumb
| bells and Indian clu bs and indulge in a va
riety of feats that give muscle and abund-
ant breath No weather has terrors for
| them any more, and II you wish to see
procession of Philadelphia beauties bigger
and brighter than you will ever behold it
| at any other time, you must take a walk in
the fashionable quarter on a wet day. There
you will see them in ones, twos and threes
IN groups and attachments, swinging merrily
along in their rubber coats and dainty ga
loshes, their cheeks aglow their eyes shin
/ ing, and their white breath kissing the moist
air. They are all bound-well, no whore in
] d. q - a Al.
wet. IL is the new caprice. IL indicates
that they are up b the days; days In which
the Philadelphia girl, who knows what Is
the latest. insisis on being healthy on daring
the perils Of a weathers, on Ignoring horse
cars and saving the pennies which erst-
while went b make the horse carr families
Of the Quaker City W rich and powerful
And she h more than ever a lovely creature
q bright sad eiiesry wet Gather daisy.