Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-09

men Outsloe or ola family portraits 1n tn6 picture galleries of the aristocracy. Sun freckled noses, may betoken health and phys !. cal strength, or they may not. I leave the discussion of the subject to professors of hygiene, retaining strong belief myself that brawn and muscle and red faces in man or woman are by no means indispensable to an exemption..from doctors bills. know this, however (and think most people not affect- ed by the athletic craze, which appears to be sweeping over American society like an Iowa tornado, will agree with mel, that such so- called indications of health are not indica- tions of beauty.
 If so, why are all the portraits of the Eng fish nobility's mothers, grandmothers, great~ grandmothers and great-aunts, which one sees staring down from the walls of every great house in the ekingdom-why are they of pink k-and whites skinned women, with sett, pale faces and slightly built, fragile fguresi Now and then you may see fat old dowager in turban and with bust to out-Juno Juno,
 but it is the fat of indolence and ease, not the developed muscle of the dumbbell, the foil and the boxing glove. All, however, have pale faces and delicate, transparent skins. I do not mean to say that all the
 women who sat for these portraits had pink and white cheeks. soft, pale skins and slight,
 willowy figures. Doubtless the majority had. Why nota Who can say to the contrary? But even suppose they had not, and that the tender complexions, white skins, and slender figures were, in nine cases out of ten, but artists fattery. Does it not show that the artists ideal of female beauty was not sunburned forehead, g bronzed cheek, brown throat, a swarthy neck and shoul-
 ners, biceps developed arm, and red- knuckied handa What all the great paint
 CTS, whose names adorn the "beauty" collec-
 tions in all the picture galleries, both public and private, would do if asked to-day to
 paint one of the sun-tinted, muscular maid- ems one reads about, am sure do not
 know. Lsy in an extra stock of sepla and
 burnt sienna; or, more likely, work in the fesh.coloring according to their ideal pink and white, and think they were doing their
 best to please.
 There can be TO doubt that Englishmen consider their old family portraits as models of womanly beauty. They look upon them as & sort of ideals, however, and simply because they never nowadays see in real life their counterpart, not in feature, but in color. Now and then perhaps there might be com plexion of that sort, but very rarely. speak, of course, of their own country ywomen. It has therefore been surprise to them, which might be termed an awakening from delu- sion, to find the skins, complexions and slen- der outlines of their female ancestors DOT traits reproduced in the American girl. This (with her own or her "popper's' money) has been her greatest charm in their eyes. I do not mean to imply that ! her own or her "popper's" money would not have suficed if her complexion had been ] that of an Iroquois squaw. Still, let us, for the romance of the thing, believe that it would not. At all events, we can assume that in all the titled marriages which Ameri- can girls have made of late years among the British nobility, their beauty was what first attracted the EnglishMen's attention and ! captured their-admiration was going te 1 say affections. But I cannot run the TO- nance to that length. What, of course, made | marriage possible was their money. Ten te one if the question of marriage would have \ risen had not beauty suggested it and con l seuuent ascertainment of the satisfactory ! financial condition of it's possessor.
 So, therefore, say to American girls, whs l want to marry English dukes and marquises 5 earls and barons, lords and honorables ant
 sirs, preserve your beauty; wear your veilt sun and wind; dread tan and freckles as yoI would the bite of rattlesnake; retain you peach like skins and your fragile figures I English dukes and marquises, earls and bar l ons, lords and honorables and sirs, hav enough bronze, leather-faeed young womeI to choose from in England without wanting any more from America. Give up tennis
 
 just think of your poor hanSs! A back
 handler which skins the net may cause you
 thrill of delight, but it adds to the circumfer
 euce of your wrist every time. Do say whe' the brown and brawny damsels begin to conn over, I cannot imagine.
 ! have said that the highest class of Eng ! fish girls are not athletes, and I think I an !! right. Most of them hunt, 1t is true. few made themselves very silly of late try ing to play cricket. But do not think they
 rush lawn tennis as the middiec class girls do They have brown faces I know, and red
 faces, ard thick skins, coarse and leathery
 But they do not go out of their way to try
 and get them. They would far sooner have
 delicate pink-andwbite cheeks like theil i great-Qrandmothers' portraits, if they could l But all the veil wearing in the world would 1 not help them. They have inherited theil coarse skins from their fathers. Perhaps i may be the climate Possibly tine beer ant stout at luncheon. Who can tell? But whatev' or may be the cause, be sure the high borI 1 pirls-the ladies, Ethel and Gwendolen an6 l Muriel and Clara-do not try to acquire l coarse complexions, and do not tear abou wildly in the sun for that purpose. The, l live the life they were born to, and neve
 initiate any one. They are not constant,
 goixg in for some new thing because it is thu fashion. They have 10 need to be in th' fashion for that matter. They would b' just exactly the same people and have ths | came position and rank, whether they wer' followers of fashion or not. They know this l and it makes them satisfied and indifferent In "eoin-in" for out-of-do exercises, lort ] walks, surf bathing, rowing, fencing, boxing and lawn jennie, American girls do not imi l tate them, for these English girls do not ''g' in" for anything. They merely do what they are accustomed to do.
 It is my belief that in their endeavor to b.
 rough and mannish, brawny and brown I skinned, the American girls are overdoins ! it. It is fad that will soon fade. It is tot hot to last. There is really no stay in it Unaccustomed to exercise, as exercise ant for exercises sake, these American girls vii presently tire of their muscle and browl i ekins. Muscle and brown skins will thei
 cease to be the fashion, and the pale face 1 and pink-and-white complexions will "com in" again. In England, however, there vii
 be no change.
 CATARRH.