Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-11-26
GOOD LOOKING WOMEN.
WHERE THE BEAUTIFUL FEMALES OF
THE WORLD ARE FOUND.

HIS Observations During Lifetime of
Wandering Over Many Different Coun-
tries-Beauties of sikh.
The St. James Gazette finds that we
live in the most beautiful aye of the world
1t strikes me, when come to regard this
theme, pen in hand. that to enumerate the
plain women of the world would be an
easier task than to reckon up the beauties
On that point an old traveller would speak
without hesitstion-if he kept his eyes on
the civilized races, at least. 1t might I've
difficult to compare the ugliness, respec-
lively, of n female Bosjesman and "A Mos
quito Indian squaw, for example But he
would pronounce ut once that the Russian
Is the plainest woman he has seen in Eu
rope--urless, indeed, the Greek of Greece
should be put before heroine 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 "A house IN the capital, and Athens
can show galaxy Of loneliness during the
winter, no doubt But was summer
visitor for two months, and in that time
bcheid but one face that could he termed
NN''l l'ttSN'l'lt, Jlc SIli plOfNN W bo nun
garian. # is not quite SO bad as that in
St Petersburg-w where also resided out of
the seasOu--hecause 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, | have understood, do Czcchs. The
CrOats hold their own, and as for the Dial
NATHAN 5 avs, have often felt inclined to
declare that they have no rivals. In riding
once from Cattaro to Cettinje, | found the
low er stretches Of that tremendous noun
tain road througed with women and girls
OF the lowland-on pilgrimage perhaps.
It seemed to me, struggling through the
crush, that every young woman there was
charming, and there were hundreds of
them. a sud contrast are the Montcne-
grins, at the summit of that ladderike
road. The sex in Tcbernagora has many
fine qualities, and eve virtues, believe,
but all Of the masculine cast. In fact,
those maids and matrons would pass for
rather fine Young men elsewhere--sufIi-
GENTLY good looking men, too, in Il rough
way, if they would only wash; but, regard
ed from the feminine point of view, they
are indescrbabIe failures. If the Russian
woman resembles a tame bear, the Monte
negrin is "a "grizzly" Of the Rockies.
Further down that same most interest
ing and delightful Adriatc coast, one
learns that the Greek of Greece, who is
Albanian, of course, must not he regarded
as representing his ethnic stock fairly in
the matter of good looks. | have never
visited the Ghegghe Albanians. That is an
experience for which | 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 a
case parallel with the Montenegrin; they
are not savages, and the one sex bears its
due proportion in beauty to the other.
| have seen something of the Tosk AL
bantam clans however-a people inferior to
the Ghegghes in every way, physically and
morally. Pretty faces are common among
them; uc ligurcS and hair, large blue
eyes, almost universal. | remember pay
ing n visit to Autiyari after the lombard
mcnt Wandering about among the pres,
of dirty Montenegrin soldiers and pictur
esque Albauinns, | came upon a ruined
mosque, which had been used, perhaps. Il,
a hospital; it WAS Uttered with rags and
miscellaneous effects.
y dozen young girls, in their long blue
house dress, We're gathering these odds and
, ends together III heap. They showed nc
alarm at my appearance in the doorway
but pressed together and stood in n little
throng, gravely staring. The action and
the look had Il curious resemblance to he
behavior of mountain sheep under like cir
. cumstances. If had approached the re-
semblance might have been carried far
Their, perhaps, for mountain sheep charge
promptly when cornercu.
One would not expect more than two or
three good looking among dozen English
girls. 1t is my strong impression that
every one of these was tall, fair, rosy, blue
, eyed and pretty; several We're beautiful
The Ghegghe women must be among The
, loveliest of Europe, if they be as much su
perlOr 10 the Tosk as the men certainly
, are. But Albanian good looks vanished
, by migration to Greece.
The true Hellenic blood, however, ha.
left its trace all through the Balkan PENN
sula. Even in Greece, they allege, Their,
are a few secluded districts where the di
vine beauty of old survives; and inclin,
, to credit it, for in the Evzone battalions
, recruited among the mountain youth, per
feet faces Of the classic cast and tall, suppl,
figures proportional like that of the Apollo
may be seen sometimes. The most famou!
of those Hellenic refugees is Il valley In The
neighborhood of Cape Matapan containing
200 households, among whom, as enthusi
asts declare, all the gods and goddesses o
Olympus and all the finest statues of an
tiquity may be matched.
In Servia and Bulgaria also one notes
girl here and there whose regular anC
graceful beauty is quite startling among
her dull and stolid knsfolk. | make III
doubt that this is an example Of throwing
back" as fanciers say; the Hellenic BLOOD
asserting itself again. Roumanian gooC
looks are deservedly renowned but tina
is an Italian type.
OF Circassians | have nothing to say
Not seldom nowadays one meets them II
the bazaars of Stamboul, in the Valley o
Sweet Waters, or even, in carriages o
course, passing along the Grand Rue o
Pera, almost as lightly yelled as prudisl
Christian beauty. But whenever | hav,
been able to observe them, their faces wer
so plastered with white lead, or something
as Opaque, that one could easily judg
the features of a clown at Drury Lane
Most persons who have visited Egyp
may be surprised to hear the Coptc reck
oned among the most beautiful of races
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