St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-21
BAB'S VISIT IN LONDON.
English Women as an American Woman
Sees Them.
ROYALTY NOT BEAUTIFUL,
Some Original Impressions Of London
Life---The English Men Are
Quite Agreeable.


Quite Agreeable. =
London Letter.
They say of PrincessVictoria ofsrTeck.
"Good looking for princess!" and after
you have had glimpse Of the royal
family of Great Britain you begin to
understand what they mean. -
Tradition keeps informing US how
good looking princesses are, but nobody
can accuse the Guelph family of SHINING
in the way of possessing a professional
beauty in it's ranks. The Princess of
Wales has charmingly sweet face, but
take away from her that gloriticatlon
which is about royalty and you would
never give her second look; she wears
the wiggieSt of wigs, and, horror upon
horrors, is dowdy looking. Loyal sub
jects refer to her as the best dressed
woman in the world. This is absolute
nonsense. 1t were king of England
l should make an effort to get in little
outside blood and have the chance then
of showing some good looking women
in the family. Personally not given to
a frantic waving of the Star-spangied
banner, never feel so proud OF the
American women as when l see their
English sisters. The passe beauty is to
the fore-a something easily understood
when the court age is considered. With
out exception she uses paint in the most
lavish manner. puts daub under each
eye, one on her chin and one on each
ear. and then Overlays this with thick
coating of powder, and believes she has
beautified herself. Her inclination is to
ftn,. fr.f,x nd yHy0
rave over London tailor-made clothes,
there is no doubt about it that English
tailorS themselves fit women better after
they have had short stay i'll New
York.
The EngIishwoman's health has been
talked OF and written of until the sub
ject, if not the woman, has been worn
threadbare. She does start in with an
iron constitution, but the way she rack
cts is enough to break up several con-
situations if it weren't for the amount
she eats and drinks. AS she grows
older she gets abn0rmally large below
the belt, and suggests nothing so much
as a respectable housekeeper. Beautiful
women? Yes. there are plenty of them.
but they are not seen in the extremely
fashionable set: they belong to that
great middle class which is the main
stay of English responsibility.
The s'huppah cirkl .s'' have nothing to
do but to amuSe themselves, and we all
know finds mischief for idle hands
to do. Affairs of the heart lit always
seems SO ridiculous to call them that
are spoken of in the frankeSt manner,
and hostess always knows what man
to ask to her house when she has invit-
nd Cnn0iqI For fhIc
is carried on, and who can say nay if
the man happens to be marquis and
the lady duchess? A spade is called
a spade until American women wonder
and feel their cheeks getting bit pink:
for while, as a nation. we may be no
better, we at least don't haunt in coarse
words our wickedneSS so openly. -
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The charming Side of London is the
world where the makers OF books and
pictures and the singers of songs dwell.
1t is never called Bohemia. because
when once land has that name given
to it its charm is lost; but there are
hundreds of delightful houses where
you can meet the man who wroteI the
poem that stirred your soul, where you
can see the pot-painter who thought put
the great picture of the man who has
made music that delighted you when
all the rest of the world seems full of
sadness. Here you meet Mrs. Leo
Hunter, eagerly searching for her lions,l
to roar even mildly in. her
Door Amy Levy-the wonderful
young girl, who, after doing work
that was great, died just as it was be-
ginning to be recognized. Here you
search for Rudyard Kipling-you want
to know all about that awesome time
when "they hung Danny Deeyer in the
morning." and il you are like me you
will come across him and be so chol1ed
up with delight and admiration that you
won't be able to say one word except a
rather stiff ''thank yOu." when he eX-
presses his pleasure at meeting you,
and you will weep bitter tears of indig-
nation afterward at your lost opportu-
nifty. You will see the beautiful wife
of Sir John Milais anu you will get a
man who lives near Manchester to tell
you all about that day when they opened
the coffin of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's
beautiful wife and took out the bundle
of sonnets from the golden hair that had
formed network over them.
~"
Ou Will SO W d SIuUtO Wucr6 It's
owner is deeply interested in artistic
iron work. and as you are drinking your
tea the doors of the back will be opened
wide. and there. working away with
hammer and anvil. with the glowing
fire of the furnace upon them, you will
see the blackSmiths. The effect is Won
perfully artistic, but you put your hand
up to your head aud wonder if you are
not in a land quite outside of the ordi-
nary world. You are. You are in the
world of thorough artistic knowledge
and absolute learning. EngIishmen
know everything better than do Ameri-
can men. Whenever they have sought
out anything they have gone to the very
root of it and are not satisfied with
merely smattering. No man talks to
you about anything lie doesn't under
stand, and this is where the greatest
nation in the world $50 it esteems it's
self might advantageously take exam
pie.
The American woman is as far ahead
of the Englishwoman as the English
man is above the American man. |
don't mean in ideas about suffrage or
anything of that sort, but she is more
ing on in the world and wherein the
daily life is interesting. The excep-
tional Englishwoman, the bookish
woman, is not pleasant in her appear
ance, and seems to think that with
learning doWdyneSs is compatible. |
do wish that occasionally sue would see,
at her best, the American girl who can
write novel, dress we'll, manage a
canoe, love her husbend. adore her
babies and know little something
about protoplaSm. .
The delightful bigness of London is
always new. You can live here for
ever, 90 to the libraries and picture gal
leries. disappear some day and nobody
will miss you, and there is curious
fascination about that. You can live i'm
any way you want, and the world isitoo
big to concern itself about you unless
you are especially before it in public
capacity. You don't think that's SO 4
Well, here's little story, true one.
Years ago beautiful woman, the wife
of very rich man, was brutality treated
by him; life was made n iserabIe and
nothing seemed of worth i'll the whole
world. One day she bolted. With the
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