St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-01-26

rHE eosrON WOMAN.


the BOSTON WOMANs
4 cS.iesf Critic WHO Dos Not coasiess
Her LovablC Creature.
Tho Boston woman. considered as
type, affords Q most entertaining study
to tte observer who is disposed to view
things from a humorous standpoint.
She is interesting because 90 different
from the female Of our species slse.
where Unquestionably. she is not
beautiful. You may promenade WASH
ingtOn and fremont streets half . day,
and mover see one really pretty girl.
Venture into the shops and you will
find not . few behind the counters But
they are not Of the Indigenous breed
They come. almost without exception.
from ''down in Alaine." or
from Irish-American parenta&e-a
cross nearly always productive
Of pretty faces and good figures. In So
ciety. which is sort of caste by itself.
there are some handsome women. but
not very many. In the population at
large, beauty in petticOats is singular
ly lacking. Doubtless tho climate has
much to do with il. Here it is winter
eight months in the year. There is no
vegetation until the first Of June to
speak OF, and it is mostly gone by the
beginning OF October. The sun is not
generous with the rays it sheds upon
the cold soil Of Massachusetts. Such
conditions are not favorable to the
cultivation of loveliness. In the
warm parts of the earth things
bloom spontaneously. girls are
more apt than not to grow up
pretty. their compilations are clear and
good-at any rate in the youth-and
their figures are rounded with the lines
of grace. 1t ought to be as natural for
a woman to blossom into beauty, even
II she fades afterwards. as for flower.
And, under favorable circumstances. 1t
il 30. In this region. however. even
the young girls. at that age when they
should be loveliest, are plain and angu
lar.
The climate hereabouts is cold and
nard. and it is not surprising that the
Boston woman should be likewise.
Seemingly, 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 homo arc inhospitable. In short. she
Is not less angular morally than
physically. As rule. she Is aggressive
~ disposed. and does not hesitate TO
assert her equality, at least, with the
masculine brute. From every thing
save skirts she is practically emanci-
pated. Even in the upper social
stratum the young ..bad" just enter
ing the fashionable swim exhibits In .
refined way symptoms Of a like descrip-
tion. From the start she is entirely
SELF confident and methodical in her
pursuit of . husband who is pecuni-
arily desirable. She is thoroughly up
in book-lore. or pretends to be
so; but Of the housewives
humble arts she processes the
most dcplorable Ignorance. Pos
itively. it is refreshing to contemplate
the ill-concealed pride with which she
confesses her inability to cook. sew. or
do any thing else that is useful
at must be perfectly charming TO
know how to do such things" she ex-
claims. with transparent afectstiOn;
"but somehow. have never had .
chance to learn"
OF course. she means IL to be under
stood that circumstances Of birth and
family connection have placed her be-
yond the necessity Of vulgar labor. Her
husband, when she gets him. is not
likely, as may be surmised, to find such
. woman in any true sense q helpmate.
In all probability he will be sat upon
TO some extent, and made to feel that
a man in the household is a necessary
evil, but rather to be discouraged than
otherwise. So he will take to living
at his club o good deal Of the time,
while his wife devOtes herself to social
and intellectual enjoyments in COM
pany with her female friends.
On the whole. the assertion may
safely be ventured that the Boston
woman can scarcely be termed a Iowa
BILE creature. st. Louis Globe.
Democrat.