The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-13
Bah IS IN LONDON
AND CHATS BRIGHTLY OF THINGS
SHE SEES AND HEARS.

Spade - Londons Charming Side
English Realism in Art Eng
lish Versus American Women
The Story of London Woman
Shopping in the Worlds Greatest
City-Why Bah Likes Englishmen.
A Clever Woman's Impressions of
English Life.
CSDeo5dl Corresp ondenceJ
LONDON, July 2-They say of the Prin-
cess Victoria of Teck, good looking for a
princess" aud after you have had a glimpse
of the royal family of Great Britain, you
begin to understand what they mean.
ROYALTY BUT NOT BEAUTY.
Tradition keeps informing,us how good
looking princesses are, but nobody can ever
acuse the Guelph family of SHINING in the
way of possessing professional beauty in
its ranks. The Princess of Wales has a
charmingly sweet face, but take away from
her that glorification which is about royalty
and you would never give her a second
look; she wears the wiggiest of wigs. and,
horror upon horrors. is dowdy- lOokiug.
Loyal subjects refer to her as the best
dressed woman in the world Tnis
is absolute nonsense. If l were King of
England l should make an effort to
get in a 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 Amer
lean women as when | see their English
sisters The pdSSe beauty is to the fore;
something easily understood when the
a iS Without
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 be-
lieves she has beautified herself. Her in
clination is to a rather frowzy head, and
though we rave over London tailor-made
clothes, there is no doubt about it that
English tailors themselves fit women bet
ter after they have had a short stay in New
York. ..iots .t7d. ....'
HEALTH oFiENGLTsH WOMEN. b1n
The English ow0h3an's health has1aJben
talked of and written of until the sdteeet,
if not the woman, has been worn thread
bare. She does start in with an iron con-
stitution, but the way she rackets is enough
to break up several constitutions, if it
weren't for the amount she eats and drinks;
as she grows older she gets abnormally
large below the belt and suggests nothing
Z.
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 mainstay of En-
glish responsibility.
SOCIAL LIFE BELow-STAIRs.
The "huppah cirkles" have nothing to do
but to amuse themselves, and we all know
who 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 knows
exactly what man to ask to her house when
she has invited some special woman. For
years this is carried on, and who can say nay
if the man happens to be marquis and the
lady a duchess? A spade is called a spade
until American women wonder and feel
their cheeks getting bit pink; for while,
as nation, we may be no BETTER we at
least don't faunt i'll coarse words our wick
edness so openly.
THE CHARMING SIDE OF LONDON
is the world where the makers of DO oks and
pictures and the singer of songs dwell. 1t
is never called Bohemia, be ause when
once land has that name given to il its
charm is lost; but there are hundreds of
delightful houses where you can meet the
man who wrote the poem that stirred your
soul, where you can see the poet-paiuter
who thought out the great picture or the
man who has made music that delights you
when all the rest of the world seems full OF
sadness. Here you meet Mrs. Leo Hunter
eagerly searching for her lions and amazed
that they are not anxious to roar even
mildly in her drawing-room. Here was
known poor Amy Levy-the wonderful
young girl who after doing work
that was great, died just as
it was beginning to be recog-
nized. Here you search for Rudyard Kip
llng-you want to know all about that awe
some time when "they hung Danny
Deever in the morning" and if you are like
me you will come across him and be so
choked up with delight and admiration that
you won't be able TO say one word except q
rather stiff THANK you" when he expresses
his pleasure at meeting you. And you will
weep bitter tears of Indignation afterward
at your lost opportunity. You will see the
beautiful wife of Sir John Millais, and you
will get man who lives near Manchester
to tell you all about that day RheB1 they
opened the coffin OF Dante Gabriel RIOS
settIs beautiful wife and took out the
bundle of sonnets from the golden hair that
had formed a network over them.
ENGLISH REALISM IN ART.
You will 90 to a studio whose 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 Win manner aud anvil
with the glowing fire of the furnace upon
them, you will see the blacksmiths: the
effect is wonderfully artistic but you put
your hand up to your head and wonder If
you are not in land quite outside of the
ordinary world. You are You are In the
land of thorough artistic knowledge and
absolute learning. Englishmen know every
thing better than do American men. Wher- |
ever they have sought out anything they
have gone to the very root of it, and are
not satisfied with merely smatteriug. No
man talks to you about anything he doesn't
understand, and this is where the greatest
nation in the world $50 it esteems ITSELF |
might advantageously take example
ENGLISH VERSUS AMERICAN WOMEN.
The American woman is as far ahead of
the Englishwoman as the Englishman is
above the American man. don't mean in
ideas about suffrage or anything of that
sort, but she is more thoroughly du couront
as to what is going on in the world and
wherein the daily life is interesting. The
exceptional EngliShwoman, the bookish
woman, is not pleasant in her appearance,
and seems to think that with learning
dOwdyness is compatible. l do wish that
occasionally she would see at her best. the
American girl who can write a novel dress |
well, manage a canoe, love her husband |
adore her babies and know a little some
thing about protoplasms.
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