The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-22
THE AMERICAN GIRL.
How Her Types are Regarded Across the
Ocean.

| How Her Types are Regarded Across the
! Ocean.
In England, men of letters and humor-
GUS artists are accustomed TO treat the
! American girls from two widely differing,
/ but I'm either case unjust, points of view.
! ''Mr. Punchs" artists confess graphically
! that the American girl is often SYMPTOMS
| ~ beautiful, but they rarely present her
! to public admiration without putting in
/ her mouth utterances which are either
! grotesquely 'outres" or downright vul-
| gar If she is asked TO partake of refresh
! ments. she declines on the score that she
/ is pretty well crowded already" and, II
! the Chicago exhibition is alluded 10 In her
! presence. she incidentally remarks that
/ the Worlds Fair is too big a chunk 10
] be chewed" without difficulty. AS for
the English novelist. the American girls
they depict are, I'm most instances, hand
some and more or less INSCRIPTIONS
young persons, who complete their edu-
cation by the intense study Of Burke and
Debrett, and who embark on board the
ocean steamer which is TO bring them TO
Europe with a firm resolution TO marry
very high up indeed in the English peer
age.
We shall never have a thoroughly ar
tistic series OF studies Of the American
girl from English pens and pencils until
American girls differ physically and char
scterisucally among themselves quite as
widely, II not even more widely, than
English girls do In the Union multitudes
OF girls may be met with who are almost
Germans or almost Irish in blood. Half
Swedish, half Spanish South Americans,
half Italian types OF femininity are also
continually met with; and. indeed there
are skilful students Of American charac
ter who declare that the genuine Amer
lean girl is only to be met with in New
England-that is 70 say, in the States OF
Maine, New Hamps hire, Vermont Mass
achusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
In those states the original English blood
has. with scarcely any foreign strain in
IL, descended from the time OF the immi-
grafton of the Pilgrim fathers to our own
days. They are the true Yankees" and
yet unobservant writer's are ready TO
typify the New York, or the Philadel-
phia, or the Baltimore, or the Virginia
young lady as Yankee" girl.
New York city 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
account must be taken of the Knicker-
booker aristocracy-that is TO say, Of the
descendants of the old Dutch settlers
The expert in character will at once
be able 10 distinguish between a young
lady from Manhattan and one who halls
from Pennsylvania or Maryland; while
Journeying farther west, another TYNE
OF American girlhood makes herself man
ifest IN Ohio and Michigan, and so soon
as the Rocky mountains are crossed |
and the descent of the Pacific sione ie |
begun, yet another wholly independant |
type Of the feminine American makes |
its appearance.
Nor, finally would the study Of tho
American daughter of Eve be complete /
Dy even the minutest observation Of tba |
gfls OF the Eastern, the Middle and the |
western States. There remains the south
ern girl to be dealt with; and when we
spproaeh that charming type OF feminln,
humanity II win be found that the GIRLS
OF kentucky those Of the Carolinas. and
u Delles Of Louisiana, Alabama or
ueorsla diner among themselves ouite
as widely as does a Parisienne from =
Provencale. '0iii
on the whole. II the American girl is
70 be thoroughly studied. the European
student should live long in the State or
make many recurring visits thereto. The
,Aisuhg ana most current types Of the
american female are either stupidity con-
'entlona or wildly exaggerated. and
winch bad woman and a clever man can
n most cases are althogether misunder-
'tood.-London Telegraph.