The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-04-07
OtR GIRLS ABROAD.
AN APOLOGY FOR THE ENGLISH
MAIDENjs TOTAL ECLIPSE:

Ladies Abroad Finding Themselves Out!
shOne by the Girls of American Hint
to English DIauds and observation-disclosures
cipatiOn from Cant.
The Lady Mauds and Lady Beatrices are
at finding themselves OutshOne in the
highest circles by American chitS who, before
coming abroad, were just ordinary misses III
small provincial towns in the United States.
1t is hard case to be thrust into the shade
by these fair invaders. But soreness about it
will only spoil good looks. Why not rather
learn the art of war from the invading bellies,
who were not reared in lighthouses, but in
public free schools. In great degree they
have conquered because they are in the habit
of thinking themselves as good as no matter
whom, and of not being shamfaced in the
presence of mortals of uppermOst rank.
| don't think it occurs to the Mauds and
Beatrices that very few uppermost person
ages, in no matter what country, have, or
can have, much conversation. Having had
allowances from their cradles upward there
is no strenuous effort in their lives. And SO
that intensity of thought, feeling and will
which makes man man, and sublimateS a
woman, is wanting in them Etiquette
throws on them the onus Of startling sub
jects of conversation Having to talk de
baut en- has, but there is no quick interchange
of ideas. AS it was 800 years ago, so tits
now. Their lives bting fiat they must fall
back on buffoonery-a reason why Schnci-
der'S dressing room at Les Varieties was
''Le Passage des Princes" License of speech
is SIRE to be granted to any one whose talk
tickles or is droll. There are few roSebuds
in etiquette ridden courts who can so con-
verse. But the United States free schools
America is not confined to the monumental
sex. The conditions of life are so different
there from what they are in England, and
there is such emancipation from cant in
most of the forms in which it tyrannizeS us
that the beauty from Ohio, Illinois or Della
ware is startingly novel, and whatever
piquancy there is in her talk comes home
with double force.
BEAUTIES FROM AMERICA.
There are such heaps of Miss Jennie Cham
berlains in the United States that hardly any
one notices their points. Americans are
astOunded at the effect they produce on Eng
lish noblemen when they come out at the
Riviera or in London AS to the etiquette
invented by lords chamberlain those flowers
from over the Atlantic are in happy ignor-
ance. So they start topics in colloquies with
royal personages instead of waiting for them
10 D0 SUetFCoI, anu Wnen Cney Cl0y please
they go ahead. Sir" or madame" or
your royal highness," used as commas, are
in the conversation of ordinary persons
Then the young and fair Americans neglect
no advantage which is derived from atten-
ton to personal appearance. They know
how to dress, and they grudge no money that
they can give to the best dentists Being in
the habit of dancing from infancy, their
gestures are easy and not angular, and they
always talk distinctly, and, if sometime with
a slight twang, in an audible voice.
Our girls often humble or run on in CHR
ripping jabber that really is not speech. They,
too, often deal in set phrases which get soon
exhausted. think when British girl is
nice she's the incest of any; and many moro
than there are could be charming if they
could only learn how to speak, and to move
about in an easy, graceful way. The Ameri-
can girl has neat features, delicate skin and
a fine nervous system. But in the rest of the
organization nature has been wanting in
generosity. The western woman or girl is
finer human being than the eastern. In the
southern states womanhood is nearest to per-
lection. Women there are reposeful-not
precisely amusing, but intelligent, sweet and
interesting in London Truth.