The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-05
PRETTY GIRL ABROAD.
If You Meet Her Address Her in
English.

NCOpy5 tyIttl'
AMSTERDAM, Sept 24.-I watched her
from the moment she sat down to 'early
bite" as the Dutch idiom styles the national
breakfast of coffee, bread and behring's.
She had brown hair, combed loosely back
from white forehead, lurge gray eyes and
fresh complexion. That shs was Amer
lean was evident even before she smiled the
waiter, in his shabby dress suit. speeches.
as she asked for ice water. She wore a
pretty travelling gown OF black and gray.
Sac put her elbows on the table cloth, but
the curves of her round arms were SO grace;
full that one was easy when she assumed a
more conventional pose.
/ watched her butter her rolls and pat the
gray-haired business man, evidently her
father on the back, and 60 on a marauding
expedition across the table for an extra
Jump of sugar for her mothers chocolate.
did not take my eyes off her till She pusa ed
| back her chair and was bowed by the
fascinated waiter out OF the ''eetzaal "
Then wondered why she so held my atten-
| tiOn, and the answer wrote itself out clear
and large on the hotel table cloth-one
seldom sees q pretty girl in Europe and
when one does, she is apt to be American.
I 1t would be an interesting question, if one
could hope to find an answer, why woma1ly
| beauty is so rare, at least over the northern
half of tho continent. 1t was under the
shadow of the Jungfrau that an English
| girl leaned on her alpenstocl1, as q crowd Of
urchlns fiocked about her TO sell that Aite
flannel fraud which they palm Off as edel-
weiss on ire unwary. Here are twenty
goOd-looking children said she to her
father, land the boys will grow into fine,
| sturdy, handsome men, but tho girls will
f,aLr n . 70
that 10 would be hard to find fifty physically
attractive women in Switzerland, in spite
of its magnificent climate and its noun
tains, which 1t would seem must make one
fair simply to grow up continually looking
on them; it is also true that tine case is not
| much better in the countries round about
Switzerland, or indeed in England Itself,
| except indeed among what the English girl
would have called the lower classes"
Sir John Miliias' lament that female love-
illness is dying out of Great Britain has gone
round the world, but it must be ackno WI
edged that the tight little island has still
pretty chambermnids. 1t would be hard
to say just how the law Of natural selection
has worked to bring about such result,
but while the country girls OF New Hamp-
shire and western Massachusetts, have q
wild rose grace that the heavier build OF the
English farmers daughter cannot rival;
while tho sales women in New York stores
are more attractive in coun -enance, though,
alas, not manner, than woman clerks in
the great London houses; while there are
moro beautiful faces to be seen on Fifth
avenue than Rotten Row, one cannot be
wal ed on In American hctels by Hebes
anything like as rosy and bright-eyed as
the white-capped, white-aproned, pleasant
voiced damsels who fill ore'S water pitcher
wherever one finds rest for tho sole Of ones
foot in the United Kingdom.
Were | poet would write an ode to the
chambermads who have fetched my candles
and my towels. The high-bred English
girl is OF her sort absolute perfection, but a
hiking for her resembles taste for olives
keen when once acquired, but natural to
few persons. She is, indeed, tall, fresh
complexioned. One cannot hope to fad
elsewhere on the civilized globe such
splendid specimens of physical humanity
as the young men and young women who
row and punt and lounge on the decks of
hoUseooats on the Thames Generations of
good feeding and outdoor life have davel :
oped a magnificent type--broad shouldered
ia the mar, deep ches.ed, altogether admir-
able; equally vigorous, to all appearance,
in tue woman, but in divers ways pecu-
liarly ungraceful.
The aristocratic English girl has face of
remarkable shape The better her position,
according to Burke's PeeraRe, the longer is
guish an Hon. Miss from Lady Mary,
daughter Of hundred earls, and Lady
Mary again from her grace by the simple
process of measurement. The face is not
oval, it is merely elongated, and the chin is
apt to be pointed. The more marked this
characteristic in the individual, the more
certainly Is the hair pinned high on the
head, fitting the stiff sailor hat down
over the eyes and exaggerating the
northeast to southwest diagonal In
evening dress bunch of plumes or a tall
pin is thrust into the hair upon the very
crown, producing the Same effect. The
eyes are rather long, and often in proper
tion narrow, the neck extensive, and made
much Of by the tight, high dress collar. An
English girls shoulders are broad and
square, arms long, waist long, general effect
in the tailor gown angular, only partially
redeemed by the clear red and white com
plexion and general air Of health and we'll
beiog. No other woman in Europe has her
physique, but, measured by Greek stand
ards, she is far from beautiful.
1t 10 mistake to suppose that the Es-
glisn woman holds her youth longer than
the American. She does not fade, bnt she
coarsens. IN some cases thsre is a special