The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-27
GOOD LOOKING WOMEN.
WHERE THE BEAUTIFUL FEMALES or
THE WORLD ARE FOUND.


Els Observations During Lifetime Of
Wandering Over Many Different Cosn-
tries-Beauties of Sikh.
The st. James Gazette finds that We
live in the most beautiful age or the world.
1t strikes me, when come to regard this
theme. pen in hand. that to enunerste tAe
plain women of the world would be al
easier task than to reckon up the beauties
On that point an old traveller would speak
without hesitatiOn-if he kept his eyes on
the civilized races, at least. 1t might be
difficult to compare the ugliness, respec-
lively, of female Bosjesman and a Mos
quito Indian squaw, for example. But he
would pronounce at once that the Russian
Is the plainest woman be has seen in Eu-
rope-unless, indeed, the Greek OF Greece
should be put before her-one must be care
full not to say Greek unqualified, for IN the
islands and the Turkish ports, where some
faint traces of HELENE blood survive, hand
some women abound.
1t becomes more and more the fashion
for wealthy members of this, the true race,
to keep house in the capital, and Athens
can show galaxy of loneliness during the
winter, no doubt. But / was a summer
visitor for two months, and in that time
beheld but one face that could be termed
even passable; the girl proved to be Hun
garian. 1t is not quite so bad as that in
St. Petersburg-where also l resided out of
the season-because the car was there,
and very many ladies Of the court have
mixed blood.
But plainness is certainly not character
istic of Slavs in general. Polish women
rank among the most beautiful in Europe;
so, l have understood, do CZechs. The
Croats hold their own, and as for the Dali
NATHAN Slavs, have often felt inclined to
declare that they have no rivals. In riding
once from Cattaro to Cettinje, found the
lower stretches Of that tremendous noun
tain road thronged with women and girls
of the lowland-on pilgrimage perhaps.
1t seemed to me, struggling through the
crush, that every young woman there was
charming, and there were hundreds OF
them. A sad contrast are the Montene-
grins, at the summit of that ladderlike
road. The sex in Tchernagora has many
fine qualities, and even virtues, believe,
but all of the masculine cast. In fact,
those maids and matrons would pass for
rather fine young men elsewhere-suffi-
GENTLY good looking men, too, in rough
way, if they would only wash; but, regard
ed from the feminine point of view, they
are indescribable failures. If the Russian
woman resembles tame bear, the Monte
negrin is grizzly" of the Rockies.
Further down that same most interest
ing and delightful Adristic coast, one
learns that the Greek of Greece, who is
Albanian, of course, must not be regarded
as representing his ethnie stock fairly in
the matter of good looks. l have never
visited the Ghegghe Albanians. That is an
experience for which l long beyond all
others to be obtained in Europe. But
doubtless their women are superbly hand
some, as travellers assert who have had
better luck than l. For theirs is not q
case parallel with the Montenegro; they
are not savages, and the one sex bears its
due proportion in beauty to the other.
I have seen something of the TOsk Al
bantam clans, however, people inferior to
the Ghegghes in every way, physically and
morally. Pretty faces are common among
them; fine figures and hair, large blue
eyes, almost universal. 1 remember pay
ing visit to Antivari after the lombard
ment. Wandering about among the press
esuue Albanians, l came upon ruined
mosque, which had been used, perhaps, as
a hospital; it was Uttered with rags and
miscellaneous effects.
A dozen young girls, in their long blue
house dress, were gathering these odds and
ends together in heap. They showed no
alarm at my appearance in the doorway,
but pressed together and stood in little
throng, gravely staring. The action and
the look had curious resemblance to the
behavior of mountain sheep under like cir
cumstances. If l had approached the re-
semblance might have been carried far
ther, perhaps, for mountain sheep charge
promptly when cornered.
One would not expect more than two or
three good looking among a dozen English
girls. 1t is my strong impression that
every one of these was TALL fair, rosy, blue
eyed and pretty; several were beautiful.
The Ghegghe women must be among the
loveliest of Europe, il they be as much su-
perior to the Tosk as the men certainly
are. But Albanian good looks vanished
by migration to Greece.
The true Hellenic blood, however, has
left its trace all through the Balkan penin-
sula. Even in Greece, they aIlege, there
are few secluded districts where tn di-
vine beauty of old survives; and in ne
TO credit it, for in the Evzone battal S,
recruited among the mountain youth r
feet faces of the classic cast and tall, 81 le
figures proportional like that Of the A 10
may be seen sometimes. The most famous
Of those Hellenic refugees is valley in the
neighborhood of Cape Matapan containing
200 households, among whom, as enthusi-
asts declare, all the gods and goddesses Of
Olympus a. all the finest statues of an
tiquity may be matched.
In Servia and Bulgaria also one notes q
girl here aud there whose regular and
graceful beauty is quite startling among
her dull and stolid kinsfolk. / make no
doubt that this Is an example of throwing
back" as fanciers say; the Hellenic blood
asserting itself again. Roumanian good
looks are deservedly renowned, but that
is an Italian type.
OF CircassisGs I have nothing TO say.
Not seldom nowadays one meets them in
The bazaars of STEAMBOAT, in the Valley OF
Sweet Waters, or even, in carriages Of
course, passing along the Grand Rue Of
Pera, almost as lightly yelled prudish
Christian beauty. But whenever ] have
been able to observe them. their faces were
50 plastered WITH white lead or something
as opaque. that one could as easily judge
the features Of clown at DrurY Lane.
Most persons who have visited Egypt
may be surprised TO hear the Copfic reck-
oned among the most beautiful Of races
But those who took part IA the scurry 70
Cairo after Tel-el Kebir had unique op-
portunity Of Judging. Coptic women Of
the better class are az least Ss much So
claded as their Moslen sisters. or we're IN
der the old state q things
Briefly, speaking from very wide expe-
rienee, nay impression Is shat the most
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