The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-20

de steele, the man tailor finds the feminine cOu-
tOuriere more desirable. The GOODNESS with
which these gentlemen of the needle express
themselves as to your good and bad points is
edifying. Provided, of course, the dsagreeable
things are said about some other woman and not
about YOU Monsieur the Most Important does
not hesitate to object to your having short
sleeve, for he announces that your bones must
be covered; he also tells you that American
women are very careless or else they might keep
their figures forever, not having the tendency of
the Engishwomen to very large stomach, nor
of a Frenchwoman to an extremely full bust
He upbraids the entire nation severely for not
remaining slender eternally, and you feel as
the special representative, the only thing for
you to do is to go home and give course of
lectures on the beauty of slimness. He insists
on putting short tail to your frock, and when
you say something about walking in it, he con-
ciliates you by politely murmuring, "Surely,
Madame never walks with such feet" and you
go away feeling that by giving in to your nasty
little vanity about the number of shoes you
wear, you have got frock that will be of no
earthly use to you except when you go to ride
in chaises.
FRENCH IGNORANCE ABOUT AMERICA.
Although this is the end of the nineteenth
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difficult, you will yet find people even in Paris
who think an American is first cousin to red
Indian who believe that we never aet anything
good except when we come here, and that we
live in barbarous state all the rest of the year.
who have an idea that when we want an after
nOon's recreation we ride over to Salt Lake City
and take tea with the Mormons, and who think
that if we are as decently hammered as we seem
to be it is because there were some Frenchmen
sent over here when the country was in its early
youth. Funny, isn't it When you start out
with not very much money in your purse and
you are bringing things home to everybody,
don't be beguiled into doing your shopping
here. You can get the most fascinating of FANS
the daintest of purses but for most everything
else you get better worth for your money in
London. This is little spoonful of experience
offered to the general woman.
POINTS FOR AMERICAN WOMEN.
| wish the American woman would learn to
put on her frocks like the Frenchwoman.
To walk as well as does the Englishwoman
70 have as good an idea of her husbands
financial condition as the Frenchwoman.
To be as good hostess at a dinner party as
an Englishwoman.
To talk as we'll and yet tell as little as the
FrenchwOman.
To have as ardent respect Tor the powers 10
be as does the Englishwoman.
To be as devoted mother as is the French
woman
And yet, after all, if had to winter and sum
mer with anybody-and wintering and summer
ing is a test of what they really are-I should
say give me the American, for she is generous
where the Englishwoman is stingy, she is I'M
pulsiye where the Frenchwoman is calculating.
She is Independent where the Englishwoman is
serYile, and she is cOnsideTate and affectionate
without a tlOnOlt of what she Will gain from II.
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