Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-20

ENln nearly so many good figures as
49, pretty faces, even in Washington.
1t is only just to say, however, that this is in
part attributable to the fact that there are 90
unusually many pretty faces.
FROM NORTH TO SOUTH.
Gas you travel through the United States
from north to south you find surprising alter
atoms in female physical types. Going from
Boston to New York you discover in the
metropolis different manner Of girl Alto
gether. She looks more robust, carries her.
self with superior grace and has much more
OF that quality, itself largely a matter OF bear
ing, which is called style BY the time you
are found to have diminished some what in the
quality Of style. This should not surprise you,
because the New York women are VIGOROUSLY
the most stylish women in the world. They
have better figures than the Philadelphia girls
chiefly, as l imagine, because they are more
robust, partly perhaps through their habits Of
walking. 1t is the fashion in New York for
women to walk. But you must remember that
these different peoples, though all Of one race,
come from different stocks originally, accord
ments of early times were derived. Further
more, the fact that New York women are so
incomparably dressed implies that they know
how to make the best Of their figures.
"while the figures Of the Philadelphia girls
are not so good as those Of New Workers.. the
young women OF the quaker city have pretter
faces Curiously enough you will not find the
most beautiful young women Of Philadelphia
in what Is called the society Of that town.
The faces that attract your notice on the street
are mostly those Of women OF the middle class
or below that. 1t is well worth Q tour through
Wanamaker's and the other big shops Just TO
see the awfully pretty girls behind the counters.
When you get as far south as Washington or
even Baltimore you strike the distinctively
southern type OF young woman.
SOUTHERN GIRLS
snow, what is the most striking character
istic Of tho southern girl? She is plump and
built on a curvilinear plan, rather than put up
on an ill-concsaled and angular framework:
but the most remarkable thing about her is
her complexion, which 10 apt to be purity
itself. Take the train for Richmond and you
will find there the type well represented by
examples Of ioveliness, with skins like new
cream just showing delicate vcrmeil TINT in
the cheeks. as q blush rose might show through
fne-spun silk. The young women Of Charles
ton and Atlanta have beauty of sort much
the same. You can see, il you consider the
question from that point of view. that it is to
great extent matter of climate with the de-
veiopment OF beauty. The softer and less
rigorous the climate the fuller are the out
lines of the women aud the better their COM
plexions. You can trace the same argument
even in its applications to manners and voices
Is il not in the south, not only in this country,
softest manners and the softest voices? The
nasal pitch Of the American information, at
which foreigners laugh SO much. is smoothed
down gradually as you go south, until there is
really nothing OF 1t left worth mentioning BY
the time you reach Virginia. Manners are in
great degree thing physical, inasmuch as
grace, itself dependent upon physical struc-
ture, has ever SO much to do with ease in Q
drawing room or elsewhere.
"Funnily enough, for the same reason that
on davainrao AFT in,
climate than a cold one, you find as you 20
south that the girls grow Up much more rap
idly. In Boston young woman of nine teen is
still at school and is regarded as hardly out OF
gulf states you find the girls, very many of
them, fully grown and manageable women at
fifteen
ANXIOUS TO BE MODELS
Speaking Of the vanity women are disposed
10 indulge, according to my observation, as to
their, figures, it is worth mentioning that artists
are very usually besieged by females who ars
anxious to be painted in a more or less un-
draped fashion-not for their hkenesses be it
understood but in order that their exquisite
shapes may serve as models for Junos, venuses,
Psyches, Nymphs dc, on canvas. One painter
Of my acquaintance has been pursued for
several years past by a very stout person who
has approached him at least twice q mouth
during that period with offers of gratuitous
service as model for Diana, the huntress.
He has wished to avoid injuring the feel
ings OF the applicant and has always ex-
cused himself by saying tina: he had no orders
for painting Of Diana or for any other ap-
propriate goddess. And 30 the woman goes
away rcgretfuliy each time, after making some
remarks to the effect that 1t is Q pity such
charms of outline as hers should not be rem
dered immortal You may remember that
quite a scandal was occasioned in Boston by
the unexpected circulation OF certain very in
decorous photographs which two society girls
In that city had taken Of themselves in statu-
esque poses initiative Of classic painting and
sculpture. One Of these portraits represented
'Nymphs at the Bath The photographer had
promised faithfully that the negatives should
be destroyed, but he sold prints from them for
an enormous price to two or three young
society men. Fortunately the decision a. 10
the identity Of the young women remained
matter Of conjecture, because their faces were
modestly covered in the pictures but IL can
well be imagined how brisk the guessing was. |
'The business of manufacturing photographs, |
the propriety Of which 10 questionable, 10 car
New York, Boston and Chicago. Curiou.iy
enough many photographers who have the |
greatest reputation are engaged In il under the |
rose. Women, With the majority Of whom i'm |
propristy y professional are
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"Hovever, not few Of the ,subjecta' are en-
tirsly respectable. Thepictures are in many cases
Of more pretension 10 the artistie than 10 the /
immoral, and IL must be remembered that the i
high prices paid for such work, where the |
model II really desirable, are calculated 10
tempt Il u an easy way Of obtaining money /
eecretely for personal decoration or fer frivol-
ous expenditure, and, % long - the features
are yelled, recognition may b thought out Of
the question. Not infrequsotly ons head h
substituted tor another 70 prevent idsnttncs-
ton. Or one hand ID held over the nose and
eyes and ths lace u turned away. A. for wages,
young girb from seventeen 70 twenty-five /
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