Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-25

enough to be extermirated by force as they ex.
terminate wolves or bears, by putting price on
their heads, and one can only wonder that she
doesn't rebel at such treatment or else in sheer
desperation justify 1t by becoming all that she
| Is accused Of being.
"A prophet 10 not without honor save in his
own country" though not true in some casss
certainly Is In thiRone. Abroad the American
girl IL . universal favorits and nothing is toe
good for her. OF course, there are individuals
Ike the worthy German who has recently been
airing his views on the want of stocking daru-
Ing among our women, and. like Nine. Adam,
who can't say enough tina. is ill-natured and I'M
true about them, bat they are only Individuals.
and. perhaps, not the sweetes temp ones
at hat. laughter Of Uncle Sam, whatever be
her station or her fortune, 10 lionized whenever
she goes among foreigners; the men flock about
her and the women do their best to get in her
good graces.
"All very well. but the men don't marry her,
ard that's the test" you say. Yes, but they do
marry her. 1t ia only the weddings in the no.
billty that attract the notice OF the press, and
they are by far the smaller portion. OF the
international marriages among the middle
classes one never hears.
Not that they are to be desired; no worse fate
would one wish the poor little Yankee than to
fall prey to foreign admirers. If she were the
dreadful creature that tho alarmist OF today
would make her appear she would be well pun
ished for her sins by coming into the power OF
man of one Of the Latin or Teutonic races.
That she is pretty no one attempts to deny
nowadays, although for a while it was 1.-THE
thing to assert the contrary and to set the
French woman, who Is beyond question plain,
above her i'll the matter vi looks
The French woman's small feet and hands are
fable of the past now that it has been proved
beyond doubt that one must ransack Paris to
obtain 21a shoe or a glove; and as for her
big eyes, that myth has been disproved by a
French writer who spoke Of the .'great-eyed'
Americans.
MISS AMERICAS sHARP VOICE.
Now it is Miss Americas sharp voice, her dis
respect OF her elders her rudeness to her
mother, her boldness, her disregard Of conven-
tionalites and her bad Manners her worthless
ness in practical affairs her ignorance her
want OF knowledge of housewifey duties, &c,
that are tine theme OF those writer's who have
nothing better to do than to turn traitor to
their own land. Moreover, it is not of the girl
that we all know that they speak. but of she OF
certain class that is. fortunately. not typical.
When geutlewoman writes OF her sisters of
the United States she is guilty Of no such
shameless SANDER, but tells the truth and
nothing but the truth" as witness Mira Burton
Harrison, to whose eternal honor be it said that
she has refused TO join the ranks of the ma
llgDers of the American girl and has told OF
her only that which is SO.
Tn. SHARP voice theory is only about as
much OF fact rs all the rest OF these tales.
There is, or has been rather, Just the faintest
foundation for it,
Once upon time there was something of the
peacock in the tones of Columbias daughter,
but now there is nothing in them TO distinguish
her from the rest of feminine humanity, and
tbs day is past when one could pick out an
American across the Champs Elysees by her
scream" There Ia nothing in IL NJ tho Ep.
glish voice. which goes in graduated time from
the sole of the foot to the top of the head, and
suggests the diagrams of rhythm in rhetoric,
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