The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-25
NEW FORK BEA UTIEs DEFENDED.
A Grille Who Declares that the Women at
the Horse show Were All Right.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: | have been
very much amused by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's
letter in THE Sun of Sunday last in which she
sweepingly condemns the women Of New York
seen by her at the Horse Show for the reason
that they lack. In Mrs. Athcrton's judgment,
the beauty OF the Southern and tSic) California
women. While | must admire the instinct which
makes Que stand up for ones native state as a
producer Of the most beautiful women. especial
~ when the writer is n woman, | am >,oved to
mirth BY the ridiculous criticisms Of our repre-
sentative New York women seen nj the great an
nual festival. | heard n travelled and titled Eng
lishmap declare last week as he walked past the
glowing parterre of radiant womanhoOd at the
Madison Square Garden that lie had never seen
at any court gathering or in any city in the
world such IA display of beauty of form and
face: a showing that gave to New York city the
fame it has throughout the civilized world, even
in California, for its magnificent feminine pop
ulatlon. We do not need a foreign cachet, how
ever, for | think IL was our own Mark Twain
who remarked: There il a goddess grace about
n New York woman, something more than mere
clothes. that can he recognized the world over
Or course am forced To, agree with Mrs.
AthertOn that our New York beauties do not
boast the prepundcrance OF nose which the
talented authoress has. vainly sought for. II
found. nose enough 10 satisfy her cravings
ia this direction, but really have yet. TO
ltAFll lnhl a sultTuDunul'ltt OF pTDDDSclS Is u
necessary adjunct To beauty. But that such
faces rs those of Mrs. Burke Roche, Mrs. Suf-
fern Taller, Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Jr. Mrs. Duncan
Elliott, and Others equally beautiful should he
called merely commonplace IN "A distinctly hui
nlOrOus assertion.
The beauty OF the southern women that sam
uel Minturn Peck has made us So well aCquaint-
ed with, II something we are all proud Of: her
modrSty anC woIuaniiHoss are among her great
est Charms. The face of the wild aud more or
less wu"lly Western female is something of an
other type, nf which we sill not speak in the
same breath. The greasy ieInHir, with BADLY
hitting clothes, as portrayed Ia tbs modern crotir
novel, Is not To be- found AZ the Horse show; she
would iiud n dtthCult TO obtain admittanrc, aud
IL she did 30 would find herself ia uncOngcnial
COMPANY.
York woman of fashion, without her bright
CUmp.cXiuU and hair, her admirable grooming,
her superb gowns, AMI acquired air could only
br described as commonplace This reminds
me Of the real estate EiaI, " lao was pTaisIug the
lots Western lots, by the way which he uTiCr-
Ell for sale, "hl the pla"c wants said he, is
more water, a cooler CliEIal". and gupd society
~ make II "A perfect paradise. We'll, that's
ali hell wants. responded Ia, client,
Take any WOMAN californian woman even
with all her general rawIess and her bury
speech give her bright complexion and hH,r,
snprrb gowns and an air, natural or acquired,
aud YOU will have a very fetching female. Takc
"A New FORK woman under these circumstances,
with all her esprit, chic, and ppise, and Sou have
the most charming of results, thu New York
woman as seen at the Horse SHOW. | cannot e.
woman at the shaw. She must have come aCrISs
"A beyy Ot hOusenaids allowed Ia use "a box Tor an
afternoon and mistaken them for sOclrty lead
ers. KATE MAsTEI,spN.