The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-10-05

age when the English girl is at her freshest.
because. by her physical and mental train
ing ner development is retarded. She eats
sweetmeats and walks out decorously, be-
hlnd veil. Theoretically when she mar
RES she is still child, but child that has
not been allowed to run. In the first wear
or two OF married life there comes
sudden blossoming, but the Gallo nature.
with Its emotional temperament, its
vlvaclty. its constituencies, piows lines very
quickly in the faces of the women, who are
not brought up to have the Saxon stamina.
Inc farlslenne is aps to be sallow, we'll
dressed and witty, the repartee and toilets
often proving more effective than better
complexion.
In Switzerland the women who are best
favored are found on the st. Gotthard
route and the lines of the passes leading
into Italy. They are Italian largely in
blood and language; but, aside from q
vision or two of a dark southern face
the only picture of pretty Swiss
woman which comes to me is that of an
inn-keeper's daughter in the bleak Urseren
Thai, who served white wine coquettishly
to couple of loutish young fellows in q
line old dining room ceiled in oak and sang
drank and wondered. She had bright hair
and winsome smile, which stand out as
an oasis in a desert barren of feminine
charms. In Lucerne and Zurich, as we'll as
on the mountain side, the women of the
land of Tell seem heavy of feature and fig
ure.
The German girl who is pretty is most
fair and sweet to look upon, with her
smooth hair and fresh skin and her con-
tented absorption in the daily interests of
the household. She is not chic like the
frenchwoman. nor tailor-made like the
English girl, but she is most blooming and
wholesome and pleasant to live with. It
rests the eye to pass her in the streets Of
Heidelberg or Cologne, with her I'M
lined forehead devoid of anxiety, or to
watch the air of Importance with which
she jingles huge bunch of keys.
She is not nervous looking. Indeed, she
often fails of beauty by reason of too much
placidity. 1t is only under stress of some
little excitement that her face gains interest
by gaining expression. Germany is not
woman's country, and a noble type of
beauty-the beauty of maturity can hardly
flower luxuriantly, though one may find sin
gle blossoms, in a land where women are
shut out from large and noble interests. The
German builds his railroad cars for men.
He puts cigar holders and match receivers
into nineteen compartments out of twenty,
the twentieth being nominally, not often
actually, reserved for 'non-smokers." The
German newspapers are for men and the
we'll to the ways of her household. but to
the foreigner she seems to spend much
time on little things, and to lose the light
that shines behind the face lit from the
fame of the worlds thinking sd feeling.
If she would but for moment put aside
her knitting. Life is not all stockings.
The German woman does not dress we'll,
and here she loses by comparison with
France or England. She has adopted the
tailor gown, but German tailors do not cut
it to fit without awkward wrinkles. She
wears the sailor hat also, and it is even less
To hnr md EnNn xho~n - kO
English long one. She gets heavy much
much earlier in life than she ought, but
even when her pounds have multiplied
themselves she walks with splendid vigor.
believe the only white-haired women
Who make Alpine ascents are Germans,
the valley hotels American women go
where mules can take them. The British
matron is carried to view poins in chair
by six porters, but the German woman Of
almost any age will climb.
Flemish women are small. They lack the
french grace and have no more than the
French beauty. The women of Brussels are
quasi Parisians, but those of Antwerp are
rather after the Dutch type. Pretty girls are
about as common in Holland as anywhere in
Europe. The type is trim, smiling, intelli-
gent, quite what the English would call
dam one can count them by the hundred;
light brown hair, blue eyes, plenty of sense
but--yefy little, poetry. They are healthy
and ikable and the souls of good humor,
quite the faces that look out of the old
Dutch pictures.
Europe, England excepted, impresses an
American as inhabited chiefly by people
who are pale and small. That an Ameri-
can girl should care to marry gone-to-seed
noble is curious, but that the noble should
desire to marry an American girl is suffi-
GENTLY Ineligible. The chances are she is
altogether the prettiest and most charming
girl he has ever seen.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
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