The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-07-29
AMERICAN WOMEN.
Sir Edwin Arnold Tells Englishmsn They
Know but Little on This Subject.

Sir Edwin Arnold Tells Englishmsn They
Know but Little on This Subject.
London Telegraph: In England men
customed to treat the American girl
from two widely differing, but in either
case unjust, points of view. "Mr.
Punch's' artists confess graphically
that the American girl is often sump-
tuously beautiful, but they rarely pre-
sent her to public admiration
without putting in her mouth
utterances which are either gro
tcsquely ''outres" or downright vulgar.
If she is asked to partake OF refresh
ments she declines on the score that
she is pretty we'll crowded already"
and if the Chicago exhibition is alluded
to in her presence she incidentally re-
marks that the worlds fair is ''too big
a chunk to be chewed' without diff
Guilty. AS for the English novelists,
the American girls they depict are, in
most instances, handsome and more or
less INSCRIPTIONS young persons, who
complete their education by the in
tense study of Burke" and "Debrett"
and who embark on board the ocean
steamship which lis 10 bring them to
Europe with the firm resolution to
marry very high up indeed in the Eng
fish peerage.
We shall never have a thoroughly ar
tistic series of studies of the American
girl from English pens and pencils I'M
til our countrymen recognize the fact
that American girls differ physically
and enthusiastically among them
selves quite as widely, if not yer
widely, than English girls do. In the
union multitudes of girls may be met
with who are almost Germans OF al-
most Irish in blood. Half Swedish, half
Spanish South Americans, half Italian
types of femininity are MISC continually
met with; and, indeed, there are skillful
students of American character who
declare that the genuine American
girl is only to be met within New Eng
land-that is to say, in the states of
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut. In those states the original
English blood has, with scarcely any
foreign strain in it, descended from the
time of the pilgrim fathers to our W
days. They are the true "Yankees;"
and yet unobservant writers are ready
to typify the New York, or the Phila-
delphia, or the Baltimore, or the Vir-
ginia young lady as q Yankee girl" Y
New York city is perhaps one of the
most cosmopolitan cities in the world,
Irish types have been freely mingled
some account must be taken of
{h, Il ~; ,1yorh,,ly u. o,.;ef,n,.o nv, t1,{ Sc
to say, of the descendants of the old
Dutch settlers. The expert in charac-
ter will at once be able to dis.
tinguish between a young lady from
Manhattan and one who halls from
Pennsylvania or Maryland; while jour
neying further west another type of
American girlhood makes herself mani
fest in Ohio and Michigan, and as soon
as the Rocky mountains are crossed
and the descent of the Pacific slope is
begun yet another wholly independent
type of the feminine American makes
it's appearance.
Nor finally would the study of the
American daughter of Eve be COM
.plete by even the minutest observation
of the eastern, the middle, and the
western states. There remains the
southern girl to be dealt with: and
when we approach that charming type
of feminine humanity it will be found
that the girls of Kentucky, those of
the Carolinas, and the bellies of Louis
inna, Alabama and Georgia dif fcr among
themselves quite us widely as does a
Parisienne from a ~provencale.
On the whole, if the American girl is
to be 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 stup-
idly conventional or wildly exngger-
ated, and in most cases are altogether
misunderstood.