The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-24
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Julian Ralph Doesn't Wonder That
Their Brothers Marry Amer
lean Girls.

the English women They are very
little like the better moiety of Ameri-
cans. They appear to have the most
bountiful health, and they certainly
do possess the loveliest complexions
Imaginable. The Indian females OF
Alaska. who cover their faces with a
thick black mixture of SCOT and
grease. in order to preserve their
beauty, may have the most perfect
| compilations, as they boast, but until
there is other evidence than their
assertion. the palm certainly u so
to the English. Even in White
chapel, or among the peasant or
fisher girls. you will see cheeks like
the sides of peaches, while among
the London beauties the faces are
like ivory suffused with tine
tinge of rose leaves. We bake our
faces in overheated houses at least SIX
months in the year, and II we ex-
nose them, it is to violent heat or
sudden changes. They live at home
in such discomfort that the best way
to get warm has been for ages to get
out of doors and walk. The conse-
| quenee is 4 mat they are born with a
fondness for the open air and open
| exercise, and always in a climate moist
and productive of the most subero
animal and vegetable development.
But it seems to me h a the nnest
English ONE fall far short OF our
mark. Big, bony, heavy
too tall and big and heavy-they
carry shoulders as disproportionately
wide as the sails OF a windmill, ana
then pinch their waists to q degree
1~a oDnrnnahaH InaV
lack the graceful, opulent curves OF
the perfect | never fully
realized this until / went to France
where the women are often goddesses.
Then | knew that l had not seen
in all England a half dozen such
women as abound in America and
Paris. 1t was not until l went
to Paris that | realized the fact that
English women lack not only round
ing outlines, out that they faIl OF be-
ing stylish and that they are want
I ing in g~raeefulness. As for the Eng
lish young girl. or miss she is next
door TO a chrysalis. without wit, or
spirit. or originality. individuality or
Independence an appendage to her
parent. a dead weight upon whatever
company she is led into. a pulseless,
m~ilky-eyed, animated identity; she
lives, she moves, she has her being
| that is all. Nobody can blame an
English nobleman for marrying an
American girl if he can; of that am
| convinced.-JuIian Ralph, an HGT-
pey's Weekly.
Charlotte Bronte on Thackeray.
''There is a man in our W days
whose words are not framed to tickle
delicate ears; who, to my thinking,
| comes before the great ones OF society
much as the son of lmlah came before
the throned kings of Judah and Israel,
and who speaks truth as deep with a
power as prophet-like and as vital, a
mien as dauntless and as daring Is
the satirist of Vanity Fair admired
in high places? | cannot tell; but l
think il some of those among whom
he hurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm,
and over whom he flashes tue levin
brand of his denunciation were to
take his warnings in time, they or
their seed might escape a fatal IA
moth Gilead."
So wrote Charlotte Bronte of Thack-
cray in her preface to the second edi-
| ton of Jane Eyre" Everybody who
pretends to know anything about the
| history OF literature, knows how this
preface t a popular novel helped, to
a certain extent. the author of vanity
Fair"
There are few besides students, how
ever, who know that there was a time
when it was seriously alleged that the
| authoress of Jane Eyre had been
governess to Thackeray's children
that, indeed, he was the Rochester of
/ 49, T1xvrof an6 horcntf thu RnOyU
Sharp of Vanity Fair"
Today of course we know differently,
saws an English writer. We know
that Thackeray and Charlotte Bronte
did not meet until long after the pub
LEGATION of"Jane Eyre" and that Miss
Bronte was, on the whole, disap-
pointed with her hero. "Mr. Thack-
cray she says in a letter to a friend,
" is a man of very quiet, simple de-
meanor; he is however, looked upon
with some awe and even distrust. His
conversation is very peculiar-too per-
verse to be pleasant" She expected
to meet q prophet. like Carlyle; she
really encountered a person who
seemed to her to be a mere profess
sional mar of letters.
The Courtesy Due to Friends.
Making friends is easy to the girl
who is bright and happy, whose
society gives pleasure and who is
genial. But keeping them demands
more than this, and a sensible writer
has thus summed up the other re-
quirelnents, most of which are mere
matters of good social form
To get a friend don't get too init
mate with her. Have your Own
thoughts and permit her to have
hers.