The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-16

of Woman,
Especial Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD
New YORK, November 14.-For a long time
the English papers have been writing about her
and finding fault with her, but now the French
papers have taken her up, and they see nothing
in her that isn't good and charming-by her |
mean the American woman. The English
woman saw the little gaucheries she committed
saw that she was bubbling over with the youth
that comes not only from scarcity Of years, but
from purity Of air and new world; saw that
she was different from her, and, therefore, like
the average Pharsee concluded there could be
nothing good in her.
FRENCH ESTIMATE OF AMERICAN WOMEN.
The French woman didn't say much in the
beginning, but she looked and listened. After
a while she said: 'What beautiful feet and
hands these Americans have!' Then little
while after that she said: "Ah ha these Ameri-
cans are dressing better than we do; they arc
taking the best of our milners' creations and
the best that the English tailor gives, and they
look well on the street and in the evening also"
Then, soon after, the French woman sat down
and began to talk to the American one, and she
confdentially told the man she loved this: "Do
you know that these American women have not
only our quickness of wit, but the English abii-
ity to keep quiet when they want, and they are
the women of the future" This is the French
woman's decision boiled down to few para
graphs, but nevertheless she keeps on writing
pages upon pages about the American woman.
After one of us has read her articles we give
look at the glass and say: "How farsighted
these French women are.'
WHAT THE AMERICAN WOMAN is.
For my own part, l don't consider the Ameri-
can woman the creature of the future. l regard
her as the individual of the present. She is
healthy, wealthy, and wise-enough. We don't
want her to know too much-the nation objects
to 1t. We like her just as she is, without one
plea in favor of dress reform or physical cul
ture, and we grow extravagantly proud of her
whan we see her contrasted with other women.
She may be bit like the lily Of the field, toilng
not, nor spinning, but when she is it is because
the American man considers it his greatest
pleasure to have lily in his establishment and
to admire it. When she does toll she does it in
about half the time that it would take the French
woman and, If it is a question of money-mak-
ing, can do more in one day than the average
English woman could in year. don't believe
in her having to make money. l belong to the
association that believes in the cuddling-up-
close -to-a-man- being taken -care-of, but my
heart does beat bit quicker when think how
an American woman can do it if she wants to.
She has a lovely determination to get there''-
and she arrives on time 1t is simply and abso-
lutely blissfully beautiful. That sounds exag-
gerated to man, and don't know whether
those are adjectives or adverbs, but they ex-
press what mean and therefore do their duty
in life.
a MODERN SOCIETY PLAY.
There are some things in this world to be more
than thankful for, and one is that the general
American woman doesn't write plays; exception
ally she does and they usually die a saddened,
sudden death. The reason 1 am glad she don't
write plays is because she doesn't in this way ex-
pose what little ignorance she may have to the
public at large; she lets the men commit them
selves in that way. l saw play the other night
that had been talked about for weeks, about
which l bothered and fretted for fear the mas
culine element who was going to buy my ticket
wouldn't get me near enough and after that
play went home and put my arms around my
fox terrier and thanked the powers above that |
was not the author of that drama. 1t was sup
posed to be picture of the society of to-day,
and it was really picture of society that
wouldn't have been tolerated by the cowboys
Doctors came into fashionable drawing rooms
and talked about events happening up stairs
WHAT DOCTOR IN DECENT SOCIETY
gives lecture on obstetrics before a crowd OF
young men and young women? Then all the
men wore huge dance cards and pencils as bic
as policemen's billes hanging on the lower but
ton of their waistcoats, and they referred tc
these dance cards with exceeding glee. The
cast entered somewhat after the manner of the
old nursery rhyme
Here we come two nv two
Dressed IN yellow, pink, and blue"
The women all sat on one side of the stage anC
the men on the other, the sheep and the goats
being divided Then when young man was in
troduced to young woman | quYered with de
light, for thought it was going to be something
after this fashion, judging from the surround
ings, "Say, Name let me introduce my frien(
Gawge,n and that Name would raise her eve
and say she amt no gentleman; he's got
flannel shirt on" but instead of that they said
"Mr Temple, Mrs. Billngsly,n and soon afte
that somebody said, 'Are you going to churcl
this evening ?" and all l could think of was tn
inimitable way in which Dixey asked, "Been t.
the sociable? Real oysters in the stew"
AS A WOMAN SEES IT.
Men who can write strong plays and gooC
plays and who know very little about the rule
of fashionable societyha better let it alone, TO
the mistakes become ludicrous and queer an
play. Then, too, don't you think people ough
to look a little like the characters they repre-
sent? In this affair the gentleman who was sup
posed to have done all the mischief, to hav