The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-01
THE BOSTON WOMAN.
A Cynical Critic who Does Not Think
Her ~ Lovnbl- Creature.

Her u Lovnblr Creature.
Correspondence 81 Louis Globo Democrat.
Tho Boston woman, considered rs
type, affords most entertaining study
TO the observer who is disposed to view
things from humorous standpoint, She
is interesting because so different from
the female of our species elsewhere. I'm
questionably, she is not beautiful You
may promenade Washington and fremont
streets half day, and never see one
really pretty girl. venture INTO me
shops and YOU will find not II few behind
the counters. But they are not Of
the indigenous breed. They como, al
most without exception. from down In
Maine," or from Irish-American parent
agc-a cross nearly always productive
of pretty faces and good figures. In
society, which is sort Of caste by ltselt,
there are some handsome women, put
not very many. In the population az
large, beauty in pctticoats Is slngui3rB
lacking. Doubtless the climate mas
much TO do with it, Here it is winter
eight months in the year There is no
Vegetation until the first OF June to speak
of, and IL is mostly gone by the pcgln-
ming of October. The sun Is not gen
erous with the rays it sheds upon the
cold soil of Massachusetts. Such conul-
tions are not favOrablc TO the culViNac
ton of loneliness. In the warm parts OF
the earth things bloom spontaneously
girls are more apt than not TO grow up
pretty, their compilations are clear ana
good-at any rate in youth-and their
figures are rounded with the lines OIL
grace. 1t ought to be as natural Tor u
woman to blossom into beauty, even IL
she fades afterwards, as Tor Hover.
And, under favorable circumstances IL
| is so. In this region, however. even the
young girls, at that age when they
should he loylicst, are plain and angular.
','hc climate hercabouts is cold ana
| hard, and it is not surprising that the
| Boston woman should he likewise. seem
| ingly, she does not try to cultivate the
| softer graces which should adOrn her
sex. Her manners in public places are
apt to be unpleasant, and her ways at
| home are inhospitahlc. III short, she Is
not less angular morally than physically
| As rule, she is aggrcssively, disposed
and does not hesitate to assert her equal
ity, at least, with the masculine brute
From everything save skirts she is prac'
tically emancipated. Even i'll the up.
per social stratum the young bud'
Just entering the fashionable SWIM eN
hibitS in refined way symptoms oil Q
like description. From the start she il
entirely self-confdcnt and methodical II
her pursuit of husband who is pecuni
arily desirable. She il thoroughly up II
booll-lorc, or pretends TO be so: but OF
the housewives humble arts she pro
rcsses the most deplorable ignorance. Pos
itively, it is refreshing to. contemplate
the ill-conccaled pride with which sh'
confcsses her INABILITY To cook. sew, o.
do anything csc that is useful.
1T must be perfectly. charming U
know how to do such things" she eN
claims, with transparent aifcctation
"but somehow, l have never had
chance to learn
OF course, she means it to he under
stood that circumstances of birth ant
family correction have placed her be
yond the necessity of vulgar labor lie
husband, when she gets him. is no
likely, us may be surn Used. to find sue
woman in any true sense hclpmatc
In all probability he will be sat upon t
some extent, and made to feel that
man in the household is necessary evil
but rather to be discouraged than othel
wise. So he will take to living at IN
club good deal of the time. while hi
wife devotes herself to social and int
lcctual enjoyments in cor pany with he
female friends.
On the whole, the assertion may'sat'
" be yentured that the Boston woma
can scarcely be termed lovable crea,
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