Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-09


| cipation from Cant.
| The Lady Mauds and Lady Beatrices are
sore at finding themselves outshone in the
highest circles by American chits who, before
coming abroad, were just ordinary misses in
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 in vading bellies,
| who were not reared in hothouses. 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 ia the
presence of mortals of uppermost rank
| don't think 1t 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 a man, and slblimates
woman, is wanting i'll them. Etiquette
throws on them the onus of startling sub
Jects OF conversation. Having to talk de
haut en- has, but there is no quick interchange
now. Their lives being fat they must fan
back on buToonery--a reason why Schnei-
der's dressing room ct Les Varieties was
lie Passage des Princes" License of speech
is sure 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
| produce them in thousands Originality in
Ay,,nY r,<fa ..
sex. The conditions of life are so different
there from what they are in England and
there is such emancipation from can't in
most OF the forms in which it tyrannizes us
that the beauty from Ohio, Illinois or Deia-
ware is startingly novel, and whatever
piquancy there is in her talk come. 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
llsh no5lenen 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
to be started, and when they find they 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
slight twang, in an audible voice
Our girls often humble or run on in a 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 more
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. a 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 a
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. -Labouchere in London Truth