The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-05

reason FIR this. as the sin to eight insoriate
asyiums Ter women within easy reach OF
London might testify.
The Frenchwonan has the one quality
watch the Engiishweman misses. She is
almost invariably graceful, but she has no
roses. lnever saw three Psrisians who in
face were beautiful. Ore Afternoon on the
promenade ut Ostsnde voice behind me
exclaimed: see that lovely French girl 2"
She had chestnut hair and wonderfully fine
I eyes. and certainly sac was wearing Paris
clothes. AS she came nearer wa bowed
down metaphorically before her high-hseled
| slippers in acknowledgement that she was 8
queen and that we welcomed her into her
kingdom. In moment she was abreast OF
US. What were the words that fell upon
our ears. Isn't it just too sweet but
wish | could get pound of Philadelphia
| caramels" One may set IL down as q rule
almost without exception that the women
wno are at once French in toilet and pretty
are of United States origin.
O-e evening stleng since at the opera
spent more time studying the Paris beauties
than the stage Thsrs was the Princesse de
Sagan, who with each new toilet creates a
fresh sensation over half the world Sallow
thin, almost an invalid in appearance. she
must possess some OF the elements of genius
to make her vivacity and her clothes
suSt Gin her reputation for leadership
through more than a quarter Of o
century. Not far removed was the
blolde and blue-eyed Comtesse Almerv
dc la Rochefoucauld. One hears her called
the living portrait of Marie Antoiuette.
but if the resent alliance exists tie unfortu-
nate queen was not more than ordinarily
fair or feature. There was tho Nicomt esse
dc Tredern, with roses in her hair aud diu-
monds ut her throat, a sugar merchant's
daughter, VINO has won her way in the
naughty Faubourg st. German by what
its DANES are pleased to call her exquisi to
bsau1y. A stately woman enough, but not
to bear away the PALM from others. Tho
most attractive face within view vas that
of Mile. Jeanne Hugo, the granddaughter
OF the writer, who charmed not SO much by
feature as by expression.
The Frenchwoman does not enter a beauty
contest with fair field and 10 favor. She
is slender. colorless little thing, without a
drop of honest red blood in her veins, at an
age whea the Euglish girl is at her fre3hest.
because, by her physical aud mental train
ing her development is retarded. She eats
sweetmeats and walks out decorously, be-
hind veil. Theoretically when she mar
ries she is still child, but child that mas
not been allowed TO run. In the first year
or two of married life there comes sudden
blossom ing, but the Gallo nature, with its
emotional temperament, its vivacty, its
sensitiveness, plows lines very quickly IN
the faces Of its women, who are not
brought up to have the Saxon stamina.
The Parisienne is apt to be sallow, well
dressed land witty, the repartee aud the
toilets often proving more effective thsn a
better complexion.
In Switzerland the women who are best
favored are found on the st. Gotthard route
and the lines of the passes leading into Italy
Ifalf lac To- -,
guage; but, aside from a vision or two of a
dark southern face framed in bright hand
keTchief, the only picture OF a pretty Swiss
woman which comes to me is that of en- inn
Keepers daughter in the bleak Urseren
Thai, who served white wine coquottlshly
to couple of loutish young fellows in a
fine old dining room ceiled in OAK, ana sang
to them at an autiquated piano while they
drank and wondered. She had bright hair
and a wipsome smile, which stand out as an
oasis i'll a desert barren of feminine charms
In Lucerne aud Zurich, as well as on tho
| mountain side, the women of the land of
Tell seem heavy of feature and fgupe
The German gill WAC Is pretty, is most
fair and sweet to look upon, with her
smooth hair and fresh skin and her con-
| tented absorption In the daily interests Of
the household. She is not chic like the
| Frenchwoman, nor tailor-lnade like the
| English girl, but she is most blooming and
wholesome and pleasant to live with. II
rests the eye to pass her in the street IS OF
Heidelberg or Cologne, with her unlined
forehead void of anxiety, or to watch the
cir of Importance with which she jingies O
whole bunch of keys. She is not nervous
looking. Indeed. she often fails Of beauty
Oy reason Of Too much placidity It /:
0 ily under stress Of some little excitemen
that her face gains interest by gaining ex-
preston. Germany is not a womln's
country, aud a noble typo of beauty
the beauty of maturity-can hardly flower
luxuriautly, though one may find single
| blossoms, in O land whore women arc shut
out from large and noble interests. The
German builds his railroad cars for men.
He puts cigar holders and match receivers
into nineteen compartments cut OF twenty,
the twentieth being nomlnally, not often
| actually, reserved for non-smolKers." The
| German newspapers are for men and the
| education The German woman lOoketh
well to the ways Of her household, but 10
| the foreigner she seems to speRd much time
on little things, ana to lose the light that
shines behind the face lit from the flame of
the worlds thinking and feeling. If she
would but for u moment put aside her knit
ting. Life is not ali stockings.
| The German woman does not dress well,
| and here she loses by comparison with
France or England. She has adopted the
| tailor gown, but German tailors do not cut
| it TO fit without awkward wrinkles. She
wears the sailor hat also, aBd it is even less
| becoming 10 her round face than to the
English long enc. She gets heavy much
| earlier in life than she ought, but even W hen
her pounds have multiplied the fnselves she
| walks with splendid vieor. / believe the
| only white-bnired women who make Alpine
accents are Germans. Fregch women look
| at the mountains from tho valley hotels,
| American women 60 where pCles can take
| them. The British matron is carried 10
view points in a chair by six portsr~, but
the German woman OF almost any age will
| climb.
Flemish women are small. They lack the
French grace. and have no more than tina
French beauty. This wornsn OF Brussels are
quasi Parisiaus. but those of Antwerp ara
rather after the Dutch typo. Pretty girls
| are about as COMMON Isl Holland as any
where in Europe. The type is trim, smil-
ing, intelligent, quite what the English
would call middle-class prettiness. Here in
| Amsterdam one can count them by the
hundred; light brown hair, blue eyes, plenty
of sense, but very little poetry. They are
| healthy aad likable, and tho souls Of good
humor, quite the faces that look out Of the
old Dutch pictures.
Europe, England excepted. impresses an
| American as inhabited chiefly by people
| who are pale and small. That an American
/ girl should care to marry a gone-to-seed
noble is curious, but that the noble should
| desire to marry an American girl is suffi-