The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-10
HRS. 4. II. STANLEY
She is Not Much "Stuck" on the
Four Hundred,
PREFERRING THE LITERARY SET.
II Can't Say 1 Was Overpowered by the
Beauty of the New York Women
Hot Air and Cold Water.

lSpecfalto THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatoh.l
New YORK, Feb. S.-When Henry NJ.
Stanley left with his party for lecture
tour the other morning, one of his guests in
his special car was q lady writer on the
World. The literateur made the most Of her
opportunities and now gives to the public
the views Mrs. Stanley has of members of
Americas fair sex. In the first place Mrs.
Stanley is thus described
You will never get any idea of Mrs.
Stanley from her portraits She is not
broad shOuldered. Sheis not buxom. Miss
Ada Rehan, minus her delicious affectations,
Is more like the explorers bride than any
other professional. She has the figure so
much admired in the south-small bones,
nicely rounded curves, and sufficient height
to become commanding. She is agile, alert,
and graceful. She is the sort of girl that
can take gutter instead of wading it,
linen, TOO, she is uncomnonly pretty She
has pink cheeks that crimson with the
slightest heat and pink chin, mark of
beauty that seldom survives Childhood.
Her eyes are large and intensely expressive.
she has quantity Of beautiful brown hair.
which she rolls back from her very high
forehead q Ia Pomdadour, and in studying
her face one is puzzled to know whether il
is the delicate complexion. the refinement
Oh feature, or the unmiStakable charm of
intelligence that makes her fascinating
Sne mas sweet voice, talks with little
lisp, talks well ana has lots of good sense.
she IS an omnivorous reader, asks as
many questions as child, has wonderful
memory and that happy faculty of making
people entertaining and instructive. Both
g1a md hGV moth
which their journals are posted every day.
For some reason Of her own, Mrs. Stanley
is collecting American slang. Some Of the
extracts from this unique glossary are
amusing. Let Gallagher 20 to her is one,
and There are no flies on the cheese is
another dissertion, quite as sensible, how
ever, as the original
''Of society, Mrs. Stanley has little to
say. do not find any differences in
culture. Nobility Of character and refine
ment OF taste belong to the world Thus a
gentleman is the same in England, France,
Russia and America, and gentlewoman is
a gentlewOman whether she is on this or
the other side of the ocean,
She and her mother had been to number
OF entertainments and according to their
standards did not reckon the -Four Hun
dred' set first. They thought the Gilders
superior to the AstorS. Both ladies were
charming In their hospitality, but there was
vast difference between their followers.
Mrs. Stanley said I did not think any,
thing of the men at Mrs Astor's ball.
They did not compare with the men in the
literary circles, and were not equal in pol
/ ISL or intellect TO the ladies'. l can't saw
! was overpowered by the beauty of the New
| York women. At the ball there were
strikingly handsome bellies, but the aver
age personal beauty was lower than Won
would find in a London drawing-room. We
I have young old ladies; our matrons are
/ perfectly radiant. You have old young
women and your chaperons and matrons
! are Witherad and faded. 1t goes without
| saying the debutantes are beautiful. for
youth is a reflection of natures sweetest.
/ happiest mood. / think the loss of the
early bloom of young Womanhood can be
/ traced directly to two national evils: cold
/ water and hot air. The ice water an Amer
I lean girl will drink in one day would kill
me-
And neither Mrs. Stanley nor Mrs. Ten
nant was carried away by the chic, beauty
or intelligence of the New York opera
gOers. They described the audience as
democratic rather than conventional.
Why" said Mrs. Stanley, 'the American
women are not as partial to the typical
decollette bodice as we, and we make more
show OF our arms, shoulders and back than
you do, and l think we are more adrOit in
slanting the cOrsage into a Y shape or
round effect, getting not only more modesty
but more suitability. If the neck is scrayny
and the bones prominent, an Engl sh
woman resorts to a necklace, not a single
string OF pearl beads but some woven de-
sign with pendants calculated to soften. if
not conceal, defects. We have pendants
the size of that sauce dish, and / must saw
they serve good purpose worn by ladies Of
doubtful youth. Then, too, the Brit sh
matron uses tulle and spangled gauze
gimps, together with ostrich plumes anC
these CONNECTIONS with velvet, collaret and
pendant Jewels save many conventional
dresses from ridicule."
Mrs. Stanley thought the American
women oyerdid the matter, oversteppeC
the line, and had their bodices slasbed in
stead of cut decollette. ''They run too mucE
to square neck, whereas, the best STANDARD
favored the round or pointed. The differ
ence between the two is a difference ina
can be seen any night in the metropolitan
opera house in the ballet and in the boxes
,, On the stage there is absolute prophet,
l OF dress; not a bodice appears that is il
the least suggestive, and in all posturinl
and eyolutions did not see one that wa
offensive"
To Boston bellies and danes both Mrs
Stanley and Mrs. Teunant accorded III
; palm for daringly decolette gowns,
"At drawing-room in season you woul
not find any English lady as low-cut as w
? saw in Boston during our stay. Most O
the anatomical exhibitions were pro
/. nounced quite good, but others were, i
! American emphasis, simply fearful
l Henry M. Stanly also came in for shar
!. of interviewing. When asked if he woul
allow his wife to accompany him to Africa
he laid down the book he was reading an
!, said perhaps, when railroad travel is CON
d pleted. IF she goes before then, it wi
! be over my body. No woman could g
; into Central Africa and come back wit
: the charms of her womanliness. Sh
d would have to see things that would for
T ever ruin her femininity and knowing c
= experiences she has passed through,
never could care for her again. She woul
cease Tn he charming to mel