The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-13

Ike things done for them; and,
to tell truth. II pretty American
gets as much work out of Il whole
train of admirers rs possible.
Henry James says, in one of his
novels: american womcn--thc pretty
ones, AT lcast-are at once the most
CNacting in the world. aud the least
endowed with sense of indebted
ness They make their mankind.
whether relations or adorcrs. fag for
them (to use a school-bov exprcssion)
in n way that would never enter the
head of IN Englishwoman. An Amer
lean beauty expects to bc "bunchcd'
| t. C., sent bouqucts--as matter Of
course before every ball by at least
| two or three Of the young men in her
train; she also expects them To run her
messages, do her commissions. and. in
| the most mattcr-of-fact way. allows
them the privilege of being general
! paymastcrN Tor any expedition or party
that may be- got up. She looks on that
~ the proper thing and hardly de-
| serving thanks, and certainly it is the
| custom of the country, and has its
! origin in the chivalrous feeling that
man should do every thing to honor,
protect and please the ladies he has
under his care. 1t must not for II mo-
mcnt be thought that American women
are not proud, or have amy idea of
"spouging' ON their friends. 1t is
simply II custom which has come out
of the very independence of the women
| of America. In the Old World women
are always accompanied by their inn
mediate relations when they leave
thoir homes ON any expedition of
! pleasure and these, of course, do the
ncrdfu ~ regards necessary OUTLAWS;
hence il follows that young men are
not always expected to frank their fair
companions. Now. often in America
expeditions are got up entirely for and
/ by Young people. and the men of the
! party naturally are the entertainers.
II m American woman il provided
with father brother or husband, il
must be added that she makes them
1 work a. hard rs her adorcrs. and eX-
poets them to make much of her. cater
/ for her amusement. and help her To
the 'loycly time that she feels is hers
by right.
! In IN American family the girl of
the house is the important person, and
the father and mother practically no.
! where: even when they are above the
average in ability or position they a.
ways. more or less. yield the pas to the
/ daughter. place that she. with u
/ mixture of common sense and Calcula-
ton. takes and keeps rs long rs posi-
| BILE. She seems to grasp the idea that
youth and good looks are hccting pos
! sessions. and that she must make rs
much of them rs possible, he jour est
d,tr jc,ReS. indeed, in America.
This spirit of calculation was anus
ingly displayed byn lovely little Amer
! lean girl. who was seen by her friends to
devote herself day after day 10 the
/ study of very dry and learned book,
/ History of the Early Popcs'; on be-
| inc asked if she was really interested
in what she read, she laughed ut the
very idea. aud said: You know while
am young and pretty no one cares
| whether know any thing or not, but
/ the day will come when | shall neither
/ be one nor the other. and then | shall
! have something to fall back on, and
! people will be very Glad 10 discuss all
| about the PopcS with me then. The
| same little lady would neither sew be-
cause il spoilt her hands. nor walk any
! distance for fear il might make her
/ feet large: and she owned 10 these
! ideas so naivcly that. whereas, in au
! English Girl, il would have appeared
the most foolish vanity. in her it only
seemed rather calculating prudence
and "A desire to make the best If her
! self
The fact is the frivoli,y of American
women is mostly on the surface; but,
owing To the radical difference there
! is between life in America and life in
England the women OF the two coun-
tries have hardly any thing in COM
mon. This may sound too sweeping
an assertion, yet little consideration
will show that il is the truth. First Of
! all. there is no country life in Amer
lea. rs we understand il in England;
there is 40 aristocracy, or upper ten,
! and consequently no dependents, no
old rctainers, and very few of those
duties towards their interiors in rank,
which form part of the education and
after life of many Englishwomen of
the best kind, and gives them response
bility and Il sphere of usefulness quite
/ unknown ia America.