The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-18
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JUSTICE TO OUR GIRLS.
Dir Edwin Arnold Tells Ens,ishmen The

JUSTICE TO OUR GIRLS.
Dir Edwin Arnold Tells Ens.ishmen ThciE
Ideas OF American Women are Absurd.
: In England men of letters and humor-
Gus artists are accustomed to treat the
American girl from two widely differ
ing, but in either case unjust, points OF
view. mir. Pupch's'' artists confess
graphically that the American girl is
often sumptuously beautiful, but they
rarely present her to public admiration
without putting in her mouth utter
ences which are either grotesquely
N'outres'' or downright vulgar. III she
is asked to partake of refreshments,
she declines on the score that she is
r'pretty well crowded already" and, if
che Chicago exhibition is alluded to in
her presence, she incidentally remarks
that the Worlds fair is too big a
chunk to be chewed" without difficulty.
AS for the English novelist, the Ameri-
San girls they depict are, in most in
stances, handsome and more. or less
nnscrupulous young persons, who COM
plete their education by the intense
study OF Burke and Debrett, and who
embark on board the ocean steamship
which is to bring them to Europe with
a firm resolution 10 marry very high up
indeed in the English peerage. We
shall never have thoroughly
artistic series of studies OF the
American girl from English pens and
pencils until our countrymen recognize
the fact that American girls differ
physically and Enthusiastically among
themselves quite as widely. if not even
more widely, than English girls do.
In the union muititudes Of girls may
he met with who arc almost Germans
Or Irish in blood. Half Swedish, half
Spanish South Americans, half Italian
types of femininity are also continually
met with; and indeed, there are sllillful
students Of American character who
declare that the genuine american girl
is only to be met with IN New England
that is to say. in the states OF Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont. Massachu-
setts. Rhode Island and Connecticut.
En- those states the original English
blood has. with scarcely any foreign
strain in it, descended from the time of
the immigration OF the Pilgrim Faith
ers to our own days. They are the
true Yankees ard yet unobservant
writers are ready TO typify the New
York, or the Philadelphia or the Balti-
more. or the Virginian young lady as
Yankee" g.rl.
New York is perhaps one of the most
cosmopolitan cities in the world, and
the French. the German, and the Irish
types have been freely mingled with
the Anglo-SaXon ones; while some ac-
count must be taken of the Kniclzer-
booker aristocracy-that is to say, of
the descendants of the Old Dutch set
tiers. The expert in character will at
once be able 20 distinguish between q
young lady from Manhattan and one
who halls from Pennsylvania or Mary
land: while journeying further west
another type of American girlhood
makes herself manifest in Ohio and !
Michigan, and SC soon as the |
Rocky mountains ara crossed and !
the descent of the Pacific slope is begun I
yet another wholly independent /
type OF the feminine American |
makes its appearance. Nor, finally, !
would the study of the American
daughter of Eve be compile by even the !
observation of the girls of the |
eastern, the middle and the western |
states. There remains the southern |
girl to be dealt with; and when we APP
proach that charming type of feminine
humanity it will be found that the
girls of Kentucky, those of the Caro-
iinas, and the bellies OF Louisiana, Ala
bama and Georgia differ among them
selves quite as widely as does a Paris !
enne from Provencale
On the whole, if the American girl is
TO he thoroughly studied the European
student should live long in the states
Or make many recurring visits thereto.
The existing and most current types of !
the American female are either stupid
y conventional or wildly exaggerated.
and in most cases are altogether mis-
understood. -London Telegraph