The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08
PIOCHE, NEVADA, THURSDAY. MARCH s. 1894
ENGLISH JUS, CE TO OUR GIRLS
Sir Edwin Arnold T"us Englishmen Their
Ideas of American Women Are Absurd.

| Sir Edwin Arnold Tsls Englishmen Thai,
Ideas of American Women Are Absurd.
In England men of letters and humor.
Gus artlsts are accustomed to treat tbe
American girl from two widely differing,
ouC IN either case unjust, points of view.
MI Funch's' artists confess graphical.
~ That the American girl is often sunp.
tuonsIy beautiful, but they rarely presen
her TO public admiration without putting
IN her mouth utterances which are either
groteSquely "outre" or DOWNRIGHT vnl.
gar. II She is asked to partake of re.
lreshmentS, she declines on the score that
she IS pretty well crowded already, -"
ana II the Chicago exhibition is alluded
10 IN her presence she incidentally re.
marks that the Worlds fair is "too big a
chuni to be chewed" without difficulty
AS Tor the English novelists, the Ameri-
can girls they depict are in nmostinstances
handsome and more or less unscrupulous
young persons, who complete their edu.
catlon by the intense study of Burke and
Dabrett, and who embark on board tbe
ocean steamship which is to bring them
to Europe with firm resolution to marry
very high up indeed in the English peer
age.
We Shall never have a thoroughly ar
tlstic series of studies of the American
girl from English pens and pencils until
our countrymen recognize the fact that
American girls differ physically and char.
acterlstlcally among themselves quite as
widely, If not even more widely. than
English girls do. In the Union multi.
tudes OF girls may be met with who are
almost Germans or almost Irish in blood
Half Swedish, half Spanish South Amer.
leans, half Italian types of femininity are
also continually met with, and indeed
there are skillful students of American
character who declare that the genuine
American girl is only to be met with in
New England-that is to say, in the
states of Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
connecticut. In those states the origi-
nal English blood has, with scarcely anv
foreign strain in it, descended from the
time of the immigration of the Pilorim
fathers to onr own days. They are the
true Yankees, and yet unobservant writ
ers are ready to typify the New York. or
the Philadelphian, or the Baltimore. or
the Virginian young lady as a 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
l.
must be taken of the Knickerbocker aris-
tocracy-that is to say, of the descend
ants OF the old Dutch settlers. The ex-
pert IN character will at once be able to
distinguish between young lady from
and one who halls from Penn
sylvanla or Maryland, while journeyins
farther west another type of American
makes herself manifest in Ohio
anu michigan, and so soon as the Rocky
mountains are crossed and the descento Of
the Pacific slope is begun yet anothe,
wholly independent type of the feminine
American makes its appearance. Nor
would estudy of the American daupbter
Of Eve be complete by even the minutest
observation of the girls of he eastern
the middle and the western s Il tes. There
the southern girl l., be dealt
with, and when we approach that charm
hS type OF feminine humanity it will he
-ound That the girls of Kentucky, those
of the Carolinas and the bellies of Louisi-
ana, Alabama and Georgia differ among
themselves quite az widely as does a Pa.
from a Proycncale.
On the whole, if the American girl is
% be thoroughly studied. the European
live long in the States or
make many recurring visits thereto. The
,4lsnng and most current types of the
American female are either stupidity con-
'entlonal or wildly exaggerated and in
most cases arc altogether rmisunderstood
Arnold in London Telegraph.