St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-05
ON, 4 FRENCH BUST,
Clara Belle on the Mysteries Of the
French Form Divine.
GIRLS SHAPED LIKE POUTERS
Tendency Of French Girls to Upper De-
velopment, as Compared With
Americans.

Auu really, HOW, dTcn We AmcTicdu
girls the lOveliest on earth? l think so;
and one proof of it Is the wave of bitter
ness which seems to have swept over
English feminine society at the matri-
monial success achieved by us in our
midst! One London newspaper article
declares in plain terms that American
girls have no charm or attraction what
ever, except their dollars; and further
attributes much that is Objectionable in
the manners of the present day to their
bad example, vulgar copy of vulgar
conduct" Other writers sharpen
their pens with horror at GUS
toms somewhat different to the
British, which the Yankee Mrs.
Grundy readily permits. but which are
rags to bull. One feels really ashamed
of these narrow and malignant deliver
anceS of spite. Sanguine people, l be-
lieve, have hoped that progress and
education on broader scale might de-
velop in the feminine character such
virtues as generosity, magnanimlty and
temperate Judgment; but clearly the
old Adam, or rather the old Eve, is still
virulently to the fore III London, and at
the war-cry of wounded vanity she is
ready not only to depreciate her
rivals, but to accuse her countrymen
of that most contemplate falling
mercenary spirit in marriage. Now if
we Americans pay to Brightons the
compliment of making matrimonial
choice among them and endowing inn
pecunious young British manhood with
their ample fortunes, it seems to me
that they certainly owe us a more
gracious reception, and that the old
country should warmly encourage a
more intimate association with us.
Speaking of foreign girls and Ameri-
cans, I was at the dinner given in
honor of Coquelin just before his de-
parture, and designed to impress that
accomplished comedian and thorough
man-0f-the-world with
A DAZZLING ARRAY
of New York's bellies and beauties. The
array of loneliness was easily achieved,
for host and hostess had no difficulty in
securing the presence of some of the
prettiest girls and most beautiful
women in fashionable society, but the
entertainment was all the same a fail
ure. The beautiful beings either did
not converse in French or had no con-
versation on that particular evening,
anu, strangely enough, Tie only per-
son that CoQuelin admired was
lady who bears a pronounced re-
semblance to his intimate enemy,
Jane Hading! The hosts might better
have invited semi-pretty, plain or even
downright ugly girls. who spoke French
and could be clever and amusing, than
have summoned galaxy of beauty with
either nothing to say or no means of eX-
pressing it in la belle langue. The as
ssembling of personal loveliness Oh occa-
sions like this is one of the fatal errors
of unsophisticated members of society.
1t was done once in Newport in honor
of Oscar Wilde, when two extremely
pretty women, one of whom has since
died, were asked to meet the apostle of
the beautiful. Though they were vol
uble enough on other occasions, Oscar
proved at once too eccentric and too
clever for these ladies, who gaZed at
him with the gaze of bird fascinated
by huge serpent, and never opened
their mouths save to answer his queS-
lions with monoysllables. Coquelin is,
however, proverbially easy to converse
with; he only needs the slightest en-
enlargement to sustain an entire con-
versation unaided. At this "beauty"