The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-03-23

Ladies Abroad Finding Themselves Out
shone by the Girls OF America--A Hint
TO English NIauds and Beatriccs-Eman-
cipation from Cant.
The Lady Nauds and Lady Beatrices are
sore at finding themselves Outshoue in the
highest circles by American chIcs who, before
coming abroad, We're just ordinary misses in
small provincial towns in the United States.
1t Is a hard case to be thrust into the shade
by these fair invaders. But soreness about it
viii only spoil good looks. Why not rather
learn the art Of war from the invading bellies,
who wers not reared in hothousos, but il
public free schools in a great degree they
have conquered because they are in the habit
of thinking themselves as good as no matter
whom, and Of not being slamfaccd in the
presence of mOTtals of uppermOst rank.
don't think it occurs to the Mauds and
Bsatrices that very few upperuost person
ages in no matter what country, have, or
can have, much conversation. Having had
allowance from their cradles upward there
is no strenuous effort in their lives And So
that intensity of thought, feeling and VIII
which makes "a man a man, and subImates
woman, is wanting in them. Etiquette
throws on them the Ouus OF startling sub
JeCts of conversation. Having TO talk do
MAUI Ga beA7, tl-Al lll.l'
of ideas. As it was 800 years ago, SO itsis
now. Their lives being fiat they must ian
back ON bU.lOOnery-a reason why Scauei-
dcr's dressing room at Les Varieties was
''Lc Passage dies Princes" License OF speech
Is sure to be granted 10 any one whose talk
tickles or Is droll. There are few rOseJuds
IN etiquette ridden courts who can so con-
verse But tho United States free schools
produce them in thousands Originality in
America is not confined TO the uuoruauental
sex. The conditions of life are so different
there from what they are in England, and
there is such emancipation from can't IN
most OF the forms in which it tyrannizes US
that the beauty from Ohio, Illinois or Della /.
ware is startngly novel, and whatever /
piquanCy there is in her talk comes home !.
with double force.
BEAUTIES FROM AMERICA.
There are such heaps of Miss Jennie Cham
berlains in the United States that hardly any
one notices their points. Americans are
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-
ance. SO they start topics in cOlloquies with
royal personages instead Of waiting for them
20 be started, and when they find they pleasN
they go ahead. Sir or "Inadame,p or
your royal highness,n used Us 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 are easy and not angular, and they
always talk distinctly, and, if sometime with
a slight twang, in an audible voice
Our girls often humble or run on 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 moro
han there are could be charming if thew
,ould only learn how TO speak, and to move
lbout in an easy, graceful way The Ameri-
AN girl has neat features, n delicate skin and
fine nervous system. But in the rest of the
organization nature has been wanting in
The western woman or girl is a
iner human being than the eastern. In the
outhern states wOmanhood Is nearest to per-
ection. Women there are reposeful-not
precisely amusing, but intelligent, sweet and
in London Truth