The Dickinson press., 1888-03-10
OUR GIRLS ABROAD.
AN APOLOGY FOR THE ENGLISH
MAlDEN's TOTAL ECLIPSE.

Ladies Abroad Finding Themselves Out.
to English Mauds and lseatriccs-Eman.
cipation from Cant.
The Lady Mauds and Lady Bcatrices are
sore Mt finding themselves outshonc in tho
highest circles by American chits who. before
coming abroad, were just ordinary misses in
small provincial towns III the United States.
1t is a hard case to he 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 thcinvading bellies,
who We're not reared in lighthouses. but in
public free schools. In n great degree they
have conquered because they are in the halit
of thinking themselves as good us 10 matter
whom, and of not being shamfaccd in the
presence of mortals of uplermost rank.
Idonft think it occurs to the Mauds md
Beatriccs that very few uprcrmost person.
ages, i'll no matter what country. have, or
can have, much conversation. Having had
allowances from their cradles upward there
is no strenuous effort i'll their lives. And so
that intensity of thought, feeling and will
which makes a man a man, and sublimatcS a
woman, is wanting i'll them. Etiquette
throws OH them the mus of startling sub
jects of conversation. Having to talk de
haut ell has, but there is no quick interchange
of ideas. AS it was 800 years ago, so tits
now. Their lives being fiat they must fail
back on buffoonery-a reason why Sclnei-
der's dressing room ut Les Varieties was
"Le Passage DIES Princess License of speech
is sure to lie granted to any one Whose talk
tickles or is droll. There are few roschuds
i'll etiquette ridden courts who can so con-
verse. But the United States free schools
produce them in thousands. Originality in
America is not confined to the unormumental
sex. The conditions of life arc so different
there from what they are in England, and
there is such emancipation from cant i'll
most of the forms in which it tyrannixcs MS
that the beauty from Ohio. Illinois or Della
ware is startingly novel, and whatever
piquancy there is in her talk comes home
with a double force.
BEAUTIES FROM AMERICA.
There are such heaps of Miss Jennie Cham
berlains i'll the United States that hardly any
one notices their points. Americans arc
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-
anoe. So they start topics in colloquies with
royal p%ersonages instead of waiting for them
to be started, and when they find they please
they go ahead. Sir or "madamc," 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 nre easy and not angular, and they
always talk distinctly, and, if sometime with
Slight twang, in an audible voice.
Our girls often humble OF run OIL in a CHR
ripping jabber that really is not speech. They,
too, often deal in set phrases which get soon
exhausted. l think when a 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 IN easy, graceful way. The Amcri-
can girl has neat features, q delicate skin and
q 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
Observation-Disclosures in London Truth.