Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-05
THE NEW YORK GIRL.
PORTRAYED BY ONE WHO DlSLlkES
 EUROPEAN FAULT FINDING.

Our Girl Learns to Look Out Little
 for Herself-She Trusts to tho Chiv-
 airy of American Gentlemen-We Arc
 Proud of Her.
 So the English think that the New York girl has more solvency in her fortune than in her complexion, do theys
 We beg to differ The New York girls complexion is as fine as any milkmaids. She is piquant, pretty, original and new That Is why the Englishmen like her, and wish to marry her. She amuseS, stimulates and fills their somewhat jaded fancy
 New York girls are well educated They speak both English and French fuentlv, which is what very few English girls do. They have been brought up under the re- pressive system, the English girls They are lovely, but sometimes a little depressing, They are hidden from the eye The New York girl perhaps lacks the 'violet by a messy stone" charm. She has not the clois- tered graces of that home education of the English. She has been admired frankly since she was 10 years old.
 SHE HAS A woMANLY COURAGE.
 She is rarely liar, cheat or fraud. She has the honesty of her thought and the courage of her convictions.
 If that makes a girl unwomanly, then she is unwomanly.
 Fashionable girls in New York are always with their mothers they have had conven- tional European education in this respect The mother is the chaperon, and the girl is stamped with 'Iusage du monde ct du plus grand, ct du meilleurs." She is we'll bred in the forms and ceremonies of court of Lon don and Parisian society, where she succeeds marvelously. Sometimes she offends 8 Roman mamma by walking across the Piazza di Spagna alone. She cannot always respect the severe Italian 'etiauette" and take her maid.
 She IS knowing person; she believes in herself, she is independent and breezy. She has been much consulted In her family. where she is the important parsonage Lati- tude in reading and thinking has been al- lowed her. which to an English or French girl would have been impossible
 She can stand more amusement (some would call it dissipation) than any living creature A prize fighter would go down under the fatigue which New York girl inl- poses on herself-all the subscription balls at Delmonicos, all tho private balls, Tuxedo, Newport, lawn tennis, Lenox in the fall. pri- vate theatricals, French and singing classes, sewing societies, charities for she is a dear creature, and as kind as she is beautifuD She haunts the happy hunting grounds of Long Island; she is seen on top of a four-in- hand
 THE GIRLS SHOULD TAKE HEEB.
 She is described ill all the newspapers when she comes out. Her fortune, her toilet and her prospects are all matters of every day comment. She has the American idea of being useful; she works as we'll as plays. She neglects nothing. An early morning walk. or horseback ride, plain gown for her hospital work, the toilet of the Queen of Sheba for Delmonico's-she at tends to it all; and when she marries she is apt to make the best of wives, If she chooses. If she does not choose to be the best, she can be the worst.
 Neglects nothing, did you saya Yes, so far as foreign ideas are concerned, she some times neglects appearances. She sometimes goes about with too young chaperon. Ac- customed to the chivalry of American men, she does not know how other men are re- garding her.
 Novelists sketch the exceptions, not the rule, as to the New York girl; but 1t would do the best of them no harm to read the for eign criticisms in novels, plays and newspa- pers Some New York girls are not averse to achieving a reputation for fastness. These few exceptions should not, however, be taken TOT the conglomerate photograph. They are not the rule. She is not an humble, expectant Juliet, the New York girl She will marry lord if she likes Some people call her heartless She needs luxury: she lives in an age of gold. A clever creature, O precious and beautiful combination, of fine mind and splendid physical perfection, she can be criticised as 3 rose, which opens its glorious petals for all men to admire; but it is hard to equal her-Mrs John Sherwood in Once q Week.