Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11
NOT PRETTY At ALL.
AClose Inspection of the Eng.
lish Woman Reveals One
Point of Beauty
AND THAT is HER VOICE.
Clean and Wholesome-Looking, but
Sluggish and Graceless.
THOUGHTFUL OF HER DEP0RTNENT
The Fur Department the Host Attractive in
the London Shops
AND THAT is HER VOICE.
THOUGHTFUL OF HER DEPoRTNENT
STILES CERTAINLY NOT COMMEND ABLE
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE p1srArcH.i


pear Partisan and at their worst, Spanish or
West Indian.
Let us hope that this ''strange fact" is q
correct diagnosis of our style 1 don't
know how Spanish or West Indian woman
appears outside of picture, and 1 have as
vet only seen imported French women, but
1 am quite sure would prefer to look like
either type than look English My dear
friend Cornlca says she would rather be an
old woman in America than q young En-
glish woman, and 1 must say: 'Them's
my sentiments, tew."
Well, there is nothing like being self
satisfied since there is no one else with
whom one must spend so much time, and
neither Cornica nor I are longer young, nor
pretty, alas! Neither could we be reck-
oned "smart" according to the English
translation of the word. nor yet clever
after the American idea, but am sure you
will believe we must be very sensible first
TO realize and next to admit these sorry
facts.
Comparisons Are Pleasing This Time.
But the point to which this admission
leads is this: Being nothing to brag of in
our own country, so full of beautiful and
charming women, over here we lose moth
ing by comparison with English women.
Differences upon this point furnished if
necessary. l have no intention of playing
Rudyard Kipling, and have not the ambi-
tion to get back at that gifted critic for his
caustic comments upon American women,
their lack of style, uncouth manners and
loose morals, and believe it is pretty well
hot II or11o M
ring always to say the best l know of
women wherever found.
But judging by their appearance on the
street, in shops, at the theater and at
church, must in all honesty say the job
lot left in town at this season are the home
liest, dowdiest, most loose-jointed and
frsceless women imaginable in great city
like London. They really look like women
who never had known the advantages of a
life in town. White faces they certainly
have, and the red wine of health paints
their cheeks, but the white is of the bread
and butter variety and the red, so vivid as to
suggest the rouge-pot. Their compilations
have not the same dainty transparency and
delicate coloring that those of the Irish
beauty have; no more have their eyes like
brightness nor their mouths a comparable
sweetness of expression,
Mouth of an Earlish Woman.
Indeed, this last feature is the English
women'S worst. Their mouths are abnor-
mally large, of every shape except the per- |
feet, and look as if they stood omen all night /
long. Wholesome looking women they are |
most certainly. They have not been over
rated in this regard. They look equal to |
the physical endurance with which they |
have been proverbially credited, but, oh, it |
is such a sluggish wholesomeness! There is |
no sparkle, no sprightliness, no litheness of |
figure, no supple grace, none of that gentler |
craft which is a woman's heritage. All of |
these womanly attributes the cultivated |
Irish woman has and yet is stronger than |
her English sister
The English woman is of heavy mold. |
She seems built to outlive the most ardent |
affection that could be hers for the winning. |
One realizes she has bone for her tounda- |
tion, and not wire, and while she could not |
dance SO gracefully as you could, in walk |
Ing match she would be "out of sight" |
But you would not want to walk like her
really you would not. There is no poetry |
OF motion IN her moyements-she is slip |
shod.
He Voics Is to b Admired.
But you will think am not going to /
leave the English woman one thing to re-
deem her from hatefulness, but am, for |
she has what we have not and which am
much AFRAID we as people never shall
have, that most estimable charm a sweet |
low voice. While the English woman's
voice has not that winning, almost
voice, yet it is low and agreeable, not jar
ring. And then she impresses one as being
so pre-eminently respectable, and thought
ful of her department, which should be
quite enough to outweigh all short comings
but is it?
Where did we get our exalted idea of
English style, please? That a garment or
costume came to us from England has al
ways been enough to make it the rage, and
really there have been some pretty things
sent us with the English stamps ex-
pected to find these same styles in London
as thick as gnats at summer sunset, but
they are all out of town. Everybody is
out of town, you know" 1 have had that
answer to every and any inquiry until nv
teeth are on edge and my ears ache. 1 am
afraid to ask one more question for fear of
the same answer with the inevitable 'don t
you KNOW" in which event 1 know"
should get the lockjaw, notwithstanding it
is said no woman was ever SO afflicted.
The Best Outfit for the Tourist.
II everybody is out of town who are the
Thousands that crowd the streets and shops,
and whose carriages jam Kensington and
HYDE Park and Rotten Row? Not all tour
iEts, for they are recognized at once by what
should henceforth be known as the tourists
uniform, the blue serge, plain skirt and
blazer From q knowledge born of expert
ence, l can say this uniform is q comforta-
bic and enduring outfit, unaffected by
weather on sea or land. But then one does
hate to be mistaken for an orphan from an
American institution, given q holiday tour
Tor sweet charlty's sake, all on account of |
gown which, like most ugly things, lasts
forever and day.
Every style that ever has been, or is, can
be seen on the streets of London, One-half
ihe women are muffied up in furs to the
op of their ears and the other half with
lecks and arms showing through the sheer
abric of their gowns. The majority of
wraps worn are those abominable loose
packed trlghts that were sent over for our |
and ultimate rejection last spring. |
man said to me they looked to him as If
hey needed seams taken In them some
where. Iquite agree with him.
In the shops of London.I
OF course We have haunted the ''Shops"
there are no stores over here) and Regent
nd Oxford streets have some fine shops
hat fully sustain their reputation, but
heir large stores are nothing with which to
urprise Americans. Our greatest delight
Tas IN the fur stores which really are on q 9
magnificent plan and offer inducements c
hat put to the test all ones moral courage. 7
Certainly there is no other setting for q
face so enhancing as fur and so j
,ornica INDUCED herself in q fine seal cape |
+ very stylish cut for which she, paid ]
1st half the price we knew they brought |