Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-17

of her father, her brother, her cousins or her friends. ''Stables and kennels" are to herr familiar haunts, for there she has four-footed
 favorites and pets. She can drive and ride
 well, and to do both well requires not only
 nerve, but knowledge. Then, when needful,
 she can tramp through muddy or snow,clad
 lanes in boots so thick that they would drive
 Saratoga belle into mysteries. All this
 tends, no doubt, to make her strong.
 healthy, vigorous, and to a certain extent
 sfracy of the soil.n Therefore, when an
 English girl talks with her male friends of
 hunting, of horses, of dogs and even of
 racing, her interest is not always affected,
 nor is her knowledge assumed. She very
 often likes these topics themselves. If we
 compare her in 8 salon with @ French woman
 of the old regime, who knew life, and had
 learned from society and novelists thou
 sand intricacies of intimacy between lovers
 and friends, the English girl seems less in-
 tellectual and in one way less spiritual. She
 has not so many mental fancies nor 30 many
 morbid imaginings; she is honest, straight.
 forward. trustworthy, direct-sometimes "of
 the earth, earthly a no doubt, but very often,
 we are glad to say, true woman-a mother
 and @ wife at her best sswhen pain and sick
 ness wiring the brow" The American girl
 does not talk of hunting or of horses and
 dogs, for a very good reason-she knows
 nothing about them. She has lived in @
 whirl of gayety from New York or Boston
 to Saratoga or some other place of summer
 resort, and she talks what the men around
 her like-politics or dollars and cents. No
 doubt she feels as honest an interest in these subjects as the English girl in that with
 which she has been familiar since childhood,
 and 1t would be as unjust to say that she
 takes them up to catch a husband as 1t is to
 imply that all our country maidens merely
 affect their interest in horses and dogs. The early life of each naturally colors conversa- nsa nf fha difference. In one thing, we admit. Ameri-
 ca is byond us. Woman there has asserted herself, and her influence is felt throughout
 the republic. Scores of professions, closed here by law or custom, are there open to the sex. They act as solicitors, sometimes plead
 as advocates, manage stores, run newspapers,
 and write three-fourths of the cheap novels. Their supremacy makes itself felt in hotels and theaters, and Con the cars." No man disputes their claim to the best seats, wheth- CT illsd or not by an inferior male creature. They have shown too that they can ''re- ceiye," travel and live without chaperones, escorts or husbands, and they are fast devel- oping bright, clear, intelligent, self-reliant, courageous and refreshing variety of the hu- man race. Of course old-fashioned folk and compared with Americans all Europeans are antiquated-do say that the reserve, the modesty, the retiring temperament of that hnman bud the English school girl, is not I unattractive; that no delicaey of pallor or ! tint on Yankee cheeks has the charm of 8 l maiden blush; and that as snow shelters the young plant and make it's future strong, so 1 the unbroken ice of the maid preserves for her gracious and noble womanhood. Still ! we agree in one thing with our critic. If all the American girls who have become or in | tend to become English wives get tho fashion ! of exacting from men here the universal homage paid in their country to the sex they | will certainly improve our manners. For all \ unprejudiced observers admit that herein i Englishmen lack distinction. They greet 1 their young lady friends with as much free dom and ease as if they were their young \ male comrades. It is the inevitable error of @ nation where the leaders of society are de- voices of country life and lovers of all kinds I of manliness and sport. These things, good in themselves, bring with them correspond ing defects.