The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-05

est, because by her physical and mental !
training her Development is retarded. She
eats sweetmeats and walks out decorously
behind veil. Theoretically, when she
marries she is still child, but child that
has not been allowed to run. In the irst
year or two of married life there comes
sudden blossoming, but the Gallo nature,
with its emotional temperament its viva
city, its constituencies, plows lines very
quickly in the faces of its women, who are
met brought up TO have the Saxon stamina.
The Parisienne is apt to be sallow. well
dressed and witty, the repartee and the
| toilets often proving more effective than a
| 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 arD Italian largely in
blood and language; but, aside from u
| vision or two OF a dark southern lace
framed in a bright handkerchief, the only
picture OF n 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 a fine old din-
ning-room ceiled in oak, and sang TO them
at an Anticipated piano while they drank
aud wondered She mad bright hair and
winsome smile, which stand out as an
oasis in desert barren of feminine
charms. In Lucerne and Zurich, as welt
as on the mountain side, the women of the
land of Tell seem heavy of feature and
figure.
THE GERMAN GIRL
who is pretty is most fair and sweet to look
upon with her smooth hair and fresh x Il
and her contented absorption in the oa.y
interests of the household. She is not chic
like the French woman, nor tailor made like
the English girl, but she is most blooming
| n ,hola r,la
1t rests the eye TO pass her on the streets OF
: Heidelberg or Cologne, with her unilned
forehead void of anxiety, or to watch the air
of importance with which she iingles huge
bunch OF keys. She is not nervous look
ing. 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 noble type of beauty-the
!, beauty of maturity-can hardly hover
luxuriantly, though one may find single
, blossoms, in 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
, education. The German woman looketh
! well 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 flame OF
the the worlds thinking ana feeling. II she
would but for a moment put aside her Knit
, ting. Life is not all stockings.
t THE GERMAN WOMAN
does not dress well, and here she loses by
! comparison with France or England. She
> has adopted the tailor gown, but German
tailors do not cut it to Mt without AWKWARD
9 wrinkles. She wears the sailor hat also
I and il is even less becoming to her round
face than to the English long one. She
gets heavy much earlier in life than she
. ought, but even when her pounds have
+, multiplied themselves she walks with
. splendid vigor. l believe the only white
I haired women who make Alpine ascents
e are Germans. French women look at the
: mountains from the valley hotels. Ameri-
y can women so where mules can take them
> The British matron is carried to view
. points in chair by six porters, but tn,
, German women of almost any age vii
| climb
: Flemish women are small. They lack tn,
|. French grace and have no more than thu
a.. French beauty. The women OF Brussei
. are ouasi-Parisians, but those Of Antwerp
!, are rather after the Dutch type: Prett,
4 girls are about as common in Holland a.
u anywhere IN Europe. The type is trim
. smiling, intelligent, quite what the Englisl
/, would call middle class prettiness. Here II
5 Amsterdam one can count them by tn
. . hundred; light brown hair, blue eyes, plent,
g of sense out very little poetry. They ar
. healthy and liknble and the souls of GOO
:, humor, quite the faces that look out OF tn
\ old Dutch pictures. aa a. -
q Europe, England excepted, iInpresses a,
= American as inhabited chiefly, by peopl
. who are ra,o and small. That an Amer
= lean girl should care TO marry ge-to-see
!, noble is curious, but that the noble shout
- desire to marry an American girl is suffit
70 iently Ineligible. The chances are she
!, = altoge Their the prettiest and most eharmin
- girl be has ever seen. nN,
- ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.