The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-05-07

of making matrimonial choice among
them and endOwing imPecuniOus
young British manhood with their
ample fortunes, il seems to me that
they certainly owe US a more gracious
reception, and that the old country
should warmly encourage More in
innate association with US.
Speaking of foreign girls and
Americans, | was at the dinnec given
in honor Of COquelin just before his
departure. and designed to impress
that accomplished comedian and
thorough man-of the.world with
A DAZZLING ARRAY
Or New York's bellies and beauties.
The array of lovliness ives easily
achieved, for host and hostess had no
difficulty in securing the presence of
some of the prettiest girls and most
beautiful wou.en in fashionable So
ciety, but the entertainment was all
the same a failure. The beautiful
beings either did not converse in
French or had no conversation on that
particular evening, aud, strangely
enough. the only person that CoqueIin
admired was lady who bears a pro-
nounced resemblance to his intimate
enemy, Jane Hadingl 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 a
galaxy of beauty with either nothing
To say or no means Of expressing it III
Ia belle languc. The assembling of
personal lOviiness on occasions like
this is one of the fatal errors Of unso-
phisticaled members of society. 1t
was done once in Newport in honor of
Oscar Wilde, when two extremely
pretty women, one of whom is since
dead, were asked To meet the apostle
of the beautiful. Though they were
volub!e enough on other occasions,
Oscar proved at once too eccentric
and too clever for these ladies, who
stared 1T him with the gaze of bird
fascinated by a huge serpent. aud
never opened their mouths save to
answer his questions with monosyl-
lahles. Coquelin ia, however, pro-
verbally easy to converse with he
only needs the slightest encourage
ment To sustain an entire conversation
unaided. At this beauty" dinner,
however, his artistic sensibiIities were
affected by the apathy of the fair
flowers that formed the parterre of
lovliness about the board. Let me be
TO the extent of saying
that what he saw.
ABOVE THE EDGE OF THE TABLE
was far less than would have been the
case at Paris dinner. There is one
popularity about the Paris girl which,
while it provides a somewhat delicate
subject to remark upon. is so extr..-
ordinary that We must forget our
bushes and contemplate it. refer
to the excessive development of the
bust among nearly all French women.
According to our ideas about the
formation of true beauty, this amounts
to almost deformity. 1t is most
thing to see spindle
legged girl tripping along the avenue
with a torsol protuberance for all the
world like a pOuier pigeon. And
what is still more surprising Is the
thought that, "a a rule. this Is entirely
al naturel. / scarcely know how to
account for this phenomenal growth
of the Pan isienne, unless it is that so
many of these girls that We see on the
and at the theaters are the
of country women, who
were accustomed to working in the
fields and bearing loads on the head,
Their children have inherited the fine
development of the neck and shout
ders induced by this muscular employ
ment. However, much of truth there
may be in a surmise of this sort, the
tact remains that the girls here are
in the matter of busts.
| have often marveled at the shapes
of French women as we get them in
the comic papers, nov see the basis
of the caricature. l am very often
to smile at the sight pre-
sented by a girl as she bobs along the
boulevard like bird, with the chest
of a fussar and the limbs of q sand
piper. CLARA BELLE.