The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-19
BIC0NTINENTAL DAMSELS
SOME PRETTY AMERICAN MAIDS
WITH QUAINT FOREIGN WAYS.

| The International Girl Who Comes
| Home in the Fall-She is German
Fraulein, French Demoiselle, English
Miss and Young America Rolled in
| One-She and Her Chaperone Create
the Etiquette of the Times-A New
Type of New York Girl
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE oldest. i'm mi
grafton of the year is still briskly under
way. For two months it has gone busily
forward and the immigrants begin to be
feature of the town. They are girl con-
signments entirely, tall girls, short girls,
plump girls, slim girls, pretty girls almost
all; curiouslY. piquantlv interesting girls
every one. You study them on the prone
made, gaze at them driving in the park and
admire them at matIneeS They are Ameri-
can damsels and yet more quantity foreign
than many an alien who never before yes
terday set foot upon these shores. They talk
English, but not with the latest, revised,
winter season 1SsS-'S9 New Y ork vocabulary.
Half of them have an odd little French or
German accent, which makes one stare
with amazement as complicated by the I'M
mstakahle New Amsterdam novels and
lOutS. IutJ are 1lelbutI Ilou lOi lltSu, hLlu
hasty would he be who should call them
fowl. There is no classification in which
one can assign them to genus OF species.
They are product of the time, peculiar,
puzzling, charming. They are the domes-
tico-foreign debutantes, Just ashore and just
ready to make their initial society bows.
The international girls in November have
not vet assimilatad themselves to home con-
ditions they are a little bewildered and de-
cidedly bewilderiug They e the French
convent grated on the singing school, Daisy
Millers caught young and sub iued, little
republicans just through With the discipline
OF monarchical etiquette, brilliant little
yankees sent four or FIVE years a2) to be
polished and set by the old world jewellers.
1t is pretty setting, but all odd one that
they receive. They are used to as rigid
chaperoning as d young French girl, they
are as demure as a German fraulein, as
quiet aud reserved Of speech as an English
miss, as European as the whole EASTER con-
tinent can make them, and yet the skittish
American colt wears the harness a trIf1e I'M
easily. They never shy, but there is rest
i've native audacity looking out OF their
foreign-schoole1 eye. Exported at ID, re-
claimed at IS or 20, the graft of the other
continent on this makes curious social
| studY.
The bicontinental girl dresses in most re-
| spects well. That is to say she dresses with
| young grace not often bestowed by the
| native dressmaKer SIC is not wearing the
| tailor made gown, no, nor walking with
the talor-made gait. Her drectoiie street
suit of smooth-faced green cloth, with full
crossed surplice waist; soft, Loose sash aud
straight, undraped skirt with band of en-
| broidery about the hem. is fitly crowned by
| the rounded face OF enthusiastic expectancy
| looking forward into the joys Of the season
| to come Their is a wide hat with q sweep
| --fol, oil, bor hoe
| with a hint Of black like her gown. Her
| gloves are green, dark green dogskin very
| probably, with loose wrists and held in
| place by tho latest of all toilet capers,
rose bracelet, with twining vine spray in
green gold claspe1 about the arm aid a tiny
watch peeping from the heart Of the flower
| Sometimes she carriesa Pompadour cane,
wit curved head in ebony Or ivory picked
out with silver, and tall enough TO touch
the feathers blowing with her hair. The
| hair is MT banged. The domestic0-foreign
girl brushes it Of her forehead and rolls il
straight back in little soft puff high on
the top of her head. She is the first of
womankind to wear a clingng gown con-
| sistentIy and gracefully. She has bunch
| of brilliant mountain ash berries or glow
ing chrysantherlums tied with ribbons to
| her cane or clasped in her hand The law
| of youth which sac has been taught abroad
| is to be youthful, but when the leading
strings are cut she is tempted to jump into
little youthful extravaganza.
She does not care for dogs. She never
leads a pug or poodle She appeared on
the street for half an hour few days since
with a wee bit of a monkey done up in a
sealskin blanket perched ON her shoulder,
but as a rule she takes her walks without
brute attendance.
She is not at all athletic. It doesn't go
with her training. The European-Ameri-
eau girl has taken no lessons in boxing or
fencing and she doesn't play tennis with
the impetu sity of the homebred maiden.
She doesn't SWIM, though she has bathed a
little from the seclusion of a bathing ma
chine She is too dainty, too fastidious,
has too keen q sense of the proprieties for
anything very severe. II she mas an out
door hobby, it is probably horseback riding.
Not infrequently she is fond of good horse
and rides MIN well.
She doesn't aim to look muscular and she
doesn't make a point CT being active. 1t
wouldn't add to her makeup. She doesn't
walk with a swing or spring or swag-
ger She doesn't try to show the graceful
play of her slnews. She ignores the fact
that she has any sinews at all. She wears
| high-heeled French boots of the old regime
and tits along in them with pretty little
half affected motion which has been absent
from the streets so long that it is the most
absolute novelty of the fall 1t isn't bust
Eesslike and it has been the fashion for the
veriest butterfly to hutter as if its mind re-
verified momentarily to the chances of a rise
or drop in wheat She never heard of
physical culture and it wouldn't interest her
if she had
She is having good influence in one di-
recton, in that she has no sentimental
weakness for handsome actors. She would
open her pretty eyes with amazsment and
horror at the thought of lingering on Broad
way to catch glimpse Of Herbert Kelsey or
laying out her pocket money for photo
graphs of Kyrle Belew. AS for sending
her picture to Mantell, or writing note to
Dixey, for once the caste distinctions she
has imbibed serve i'll excellent stead for
common sense.
Though not infatuated with actors, the
imported girl is normal specimen in her
devotion to candy. She has had long fast
in the comparative scarcity Of sweets
abroad and can hardly be induced to stir
now without her silver or jeweled bonbon-
Mere securely tucked away in her jacket
pocket or fastened, as is the latest wnim, to
the floating ends of her sash to give weight
and dignity to those airy appendages. she
favors candied violets at present and one OF
the shortest roads to her favor is to keep
her well supplied.
She does not claim to be intellectual and
makes no attempt to look wise. To do her
justice, she has no notion OF reviving the old
fashion Of looking silly, but Browning has
M charn,e for har and If "a hlue stocking