The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-08
THE GERMAN GIRL.
Peculi arities OF Her Life in Contrast with
That of tho American Girl.


One OF the most disadvantage GUS and unde-
| sirable things that can happen to girl Is to
be born in Germany In the first place she is
not welcome for she doesn't make good SOL
der and her capacity as a consumer OF beer Is
| limited Already is the market flooded with
| the girl commodity aud quantity invariably
| lessons value. In the second place, the Ger
man girl isn't pretty and no calamity so great
| is known in Girhoods Pandora box OF evils.
! Never is the dreamy Concord poets saying.
| Beauty is its own excuse for beng" 80 apty
| quoted as IN connection with woman, and the
! girls who develop into women. 1t is the pretty
woman who gets the seat in tho car, the best
partner NJ the ball, the most delightful hus-
band in society. the sympathy in her distress.
the praise for her llGhtcst endeayors. Tho
pretty woman who locks up so appeal
ingly with tho tears trembling on her
lashes because sUue ono has stolen
her little Stringy disA-rag dog stirs ones heart
so much moro dcciou-lv than devoted dam
Sci grievnE with bIuod~hot eyes and a red
nose over tho real woes Of existence. Tho
pretty woman who holds up her dear little
finger when the needle has pricked it stitch
ing yellow dogs on crimson Backgrounds
awHkens such Il tumult OF admiration and
pity i'll your hoart that YOU kiss the finger and
never notice tho worn fair hands o. the duttful
plain ia ed daughter doing the family sewipn
and sitting up nights to construct flnery for her
pretty sister 20 be admired in. Then the Cor
man girl is proyoAinGIy. tire omely. phlegmat-
irally good. Too good TO enjoy herself She la
economical. industrious, and rersevering.
Sho never can know tho dear delight
Of spending u whole months allowance
on ono bonnet md tho ecstasy OF wear
ing II and nevor telling how much IL
costs. She is too prudent. She falls In love
sometimes. but She Is dutlful IN hearing ana
habit Of interfering in love affairs on general
principles, Just to oNercise their prorogatiye az
or half as much. about 1t a the girl herself IL
she manages 70 get married the legal founda-
tlon OF women; The German husband isn't as
atnenabo 70 discipline as the American spouse.
novels and cat bon bons In the morning, shop
IN tnG aLteIn99n' ana go to theatres in tho
IumbllnG along every twelvemunth with aston
ishing regularity and German husbands re-
lunches, write Interviews for the newspapers,
and lecture oS on tho rights Of women Ger:
ways OF ,ncir households ana nave altogether
700 many rights al home 10 Ind time 70 dlscpeS
raSm in gn6 mgetnEs good haI Of the girls
ib,99ardlng houses without even the solaee OF
a hiGher education or tie interests OF profess
maiden makes up her ' mind that at he" isaft
<, S.e doesn't spend any time siGhing in
larlal Mariana" No, rhe studies medicine
Or art goes into tho law or literature, and IN q
little while is taking better caro- OF hCrBef than
2 man could II he would, or would If he could.
i5ui the German universities will have nothing
70 do with tho German girl and are supported
by eminent specialists who arc inclined TO he-
love in certain inferiorIty Of the female brain
l9 70 some branches Of montGl discipline, Spirits
ui Lanyard Annex, Columbia, and PonnSylya-
nla University girl students listen and avenged
IN literature or art tne German .irl has pro-
uuCol nothing indicative Of genus or talent.
rs l"r tho mysterious something including
III gFages and charms which 10 culi attractive
moss me German grl knows less about ltS first
principles than she knows OF the solution OF
ne endless calculus; but she IL honest. faith
~ pDsllent, and dutful, and she finds great
ien. Oh consolation Tor such woes as disturb tho
tranquility OF her well-reRulateq mentality in
lSyinG enough 10 cat and drink, for which she
las an absorbing passion.
! ne LnprosS Frederick endeavored TO in
use some Of the sensible English ideas into
ne Hrrmap intel llGonce and used her power
~ influence In tho cause OF intellectual eman-
ipaIon WIN passive success. Her Victoria
bc"um 1T Berlin gives to women such lee
ureS as are supposed TO DO suited TO their
yTeak ,and inferior intelleots; another instItu.
Ion Of which she Is pRtronSss teaches ES6