Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
AMERICo-FoREIoN GIRLS.
A New 'ariety of Young Women That Ha
Suddenly BIOssomed Forth.

A New Sariety of Young Women That Has
Suddenly BlOssOmed Forth.
we have developed new type of girl,
says the New York HAL and ExDress. She
is bred upon pure native stock, but she is
to all intents and purposes an international
girl. Hall the debutantes last winter were
OF this variety of girl aud very interest
ing variety it is. They speak English, but
they do 1t with a French or German accent.
and they haven't at all our frank, aboriginal
ways. They look pretty, but it is with an
odd foreign prettiness that tempts us TO dub
them, as dealers in all sorts of wares do
their choicest stock, Imported" They are
curious, h-Continental-A hv-
Bird girls.
This the progress of their growth. They
are born in the land of the free, ETC., and
here they live until they are perhaps four
teen or fifteen years old. Then mamma takes
them abroad, just at the formative period of
their lives, and establishes them in a pen
sion or private family. There the foreign
nurseryman prunes them and trains them
on trellises, encourages them in this direc-
ton, and checks them in that, doing his best
by late cultivation to eradicate the effects
Of running wild in our rank new soil. Bv
and by when the young woman is old
enough to be introduced mamma goes after
her and brings home the finished product.
Mamma brings foreign wardrobe at the
same time, and gives a tea or a dinner or a
dance TO let people see this exotic of hers.
You know that she is an exotic the min
ute you set eyes on her. She has lost the
ease, the freedom and the liberty of the
American girl, she has not put on quite the
prlmness OF the jeute tile, but her bearing
is the oldest commingling of the two
There is the natural impulsiyeness finn
nily toned down by the acquired restraint.
She does not dash into festivities with the
confidence Of young queendom, fearing
nothing, Suspecting nothing, enjoying ali,
pushing her mother into the background,
as young America has done sometimes
She stands demure in her Worth gown be-
SIDE mamma until partner preseuts
himself, and as soon as the dance Is
over Is conducted straight back to mamma
or chaperon, nothing of the male sex being
permitted to exchange dozen words with
her away from the safe convoy of that
friend. She is under guardianship strict
guardianship, and the multiplication of tho
guarded type is altering the whole com
plexion of the social world. They are very
pretty, these comical, little Americo-foreign
girls, that step IN the unaccustomed har.
ness so gingerly, letting their aeeis d.
in spite Of themselves in an inyelur'
caper sometimes. They are yeES .,arJ
with their small pruderies, = amusing
eoted Inconsistencies - Jr the unaf
ropean damsel who - your real Eu
young that shS ~ .Jn't allowed to learr
doesn't como ) person of importanc,
terestins " grating. They are an in
crease study, but the faster they in
- The more certainly we are approx
Ting foreign ways in yet another par
4 ucular, the real power in society, she VIII,
is Its breath of life, is not the bud, but tn,
young married woman who regains tn,
freedom given up by the girl.