The Portland daily press., 1894-12-08

the world, she pities the ignorance shown
in the statement, if she does not despise
it. If she has something of faculty for
despisins-this young girl-it is not Pc
culiar to her, it is a quality that be-
longs to youth in general.
VARIED NEW ENGLAND STOCK.
But they were not all Puritans and
Pilgrims who settled New England. In
New Hampshire the colonial life was
of quite different character from that
of the Massachusetts shores; there folK
made life pleasant much after the lash
ion of the Virginians, and lived early
in style of splendor and gayety, ana
although later a large contingent OF
Scotch Irish came over the more central
portions of the State, people having the
same strong and stern religious creed as
the Puritans, yet they had with 1t
certain geniality absent in the tlrst
conner. With the Puritan, the Pilgrim,
the church people and later English,
those reared in the gentle freedom of
Roger Williams's ways, with the Quaker,
the Scotch-Irish, the French colonies
settled along the coast, the Importation
and absorption of many of the Aeadians,
the New England girl represents too
many varying races teShave the features
of anyone of them ussd as typical.
MADE UP OF THEM ALL.
She is in this generation composite
Ill L. TT che hqG the
pilgrims firm adherence to her faith,
let the fate be what it will. she has
also the liberality of the friend of Harry
Vaue, the straightforward courage OF
the Scotch-Irish, the vivacity OF the
French and always some of the iron
fibre of the Puritan in her moral and
mental and physical constitution. She
does not forget, it may be, that the iber-
ality was Of the sort that preached
against the pernicious practice OF
women in going abroad with their faces
uncovered by veil-a conservative lib
erality. In fact, so tremendously in
earnest is she in whatever cause or
theory she espouses is that she avoids
bigotry only by care.
All this, perhaps, may give her
little too much sense of superiority. 1t
she is in Boston, and especially if she is
of the circle of the city's chief wealth
and refinement and long descent, she
does not regard member of the House
of Lords as more than her fathers So
cial equal; and size feels nearer to the
English aristocracy than to that of her
own country people, allowing that they
have one; she affiliates more with Phila-
delphia than with New York; she knows
that New York considers her provincial.
But what matter? She considers New
York banaI. With all this she conde-
sends so sweely that you do not always
find it out.
l fancy that even beyond this, and even
beyond that divine curiosity which is
the love of learning, her most distin-
gushing characteristic is her positive
truthfulness. A temptation to deceit or
treachery would glance off from her as
an arrow from armor of plate steel. 1t
is this uprightness, this lofty standard
of rectitude, which give her an inner
pride that makes coouetry impossible to
her. She will not stoop to win by small
and detestable arts. When she loves it
is as faithfully as tenderly as everlasting
" as any woman ever born of woman;
but she demands respect before she will
accept love- If she is often unmarried
it is not because she has not the oppor-
tunity of marriage. but because men
who reach her standard are not plenti-
full. For her intellect and her taste are
cultivated; she has a fine knowledge
of art and deep enthusiasm for music.
She paints, she models, she sings, she
sews, she cooks. The rough east wind
and Sc tonics, strengthen the throat
by long selection. till they have made
such throars az Nordica's and Kellogg's,
have given her a pleasant voice with
less of the nasal twang than belongs to
any other section of the country, have
given her, too, by the same process, a
robust health that makes self-support
possible and pleasant, and often prefera-
BILE, and she is so much a mistress of the
science of home that she Can happily
make her own. And l speak now neith-
er of her generations that have gone or
are going, but of that which has just
come forward to take hold of the life Of
the world, blooming, sparkling. eager
for the beautiful and the best.