The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-12-17
SHE CAN SEE NO BEAUTY IN THEM.
A California woman's Judgment Upon the
New York Women of Fashion.

A California Woman's Judgment Upon the
New York Women of Fashion.
The horse show brings forcibly home
to us an unpleasant truth-north of
Mason and Dixon's line we have not de-
veloped az aristccratic type. Southern
women, by virtue of their descent from
English ancestors of birth and breeding,
added to generations of luxury, are in
dubitably aristocratic in outline and
bearing, but the New York woman of
fashion is merely swagger, combina-
ton produced by an expensive dress
maker and her own answering deter
mination to acquire an "air'' She is
swagger without being high bred, self
conscious where she would be naughty
and her repose is mere lounging.
l have studied this type for several
years, and last night was struck anew
with two of its fatal defciencies-its
lack of nose and of cheek modelling. It
is not too much to say that in all that
tier of boxes there was not one good
nose. Only one girl had nose of size,
and hers was proboscis. She could
have supplied three of her meager sis
ters. The others without exception had
little pugs or an irregular piece of flesh
eand cartilage that cannot be classed.
One Japanese looking little beauty"
had queer peaked affair that seemed
to point derisively at her bang. Anoth-
er woman of middle age who is never
spoken of except as ''one of the most
beautiful and distinguished looking wo-
men of America. has a minute appli-
cation SO unfortunately constructed as to
give her the effect of one whose fate it
is to stand constantly on the edge of a
sewer. This woman is absolutely with
out beauty. Her face is large and COM
mon and colorless; her '1anguid eyes
with a wicked sparkle are as nearly
expressionless as eyes can be got. She
is merely an astonishing newspaper pro-
duction.
One Of the women most frequently
extolled for beauty has the face of the
Partisan cocotte. One can see it by the
dozen on spring afternoon driving to
the Bots. its other extremities banked
in flowers She is tall and has charm
ing grace and two or three generations
have done much for her, but the cocotte
suggestion is paramount. Last night |
she sat with her legs frankly crossed,
model of elegance for the gaping throng |
Another is as good a type of the |
French soubrette as you will ever see in
a Partisan theater "a small, dark, |
bright, wicked little face, its owner as
smart as a great milliner could make |
her. Another beauty" has merely |
bright, good, attractive face. Not line
there conforms to any standard Anoth-
er has developed Burgundy complex
ion and large knobs on her cheek bones.
This is merely a study and truth
full one. I see no reason why the truth
should not be written about this much
discussed type for once. The newspa-
pers are responsible for the false i'm
preston regarding the fashionable wo-
men of New York. To describe beauty
makes interesting reading. But the So
cial phase of any country is part of its
history, and current history should be
treated with the same impartiality as
the more easily focused past. AS mat
ter of bare fact, there is hardly beau
tiful or high bred woman in New
York society, hardly one that in profile
or modelling of cheek and chin or in
repose and dignity of bearing suggests
three generations behind her. And it is
a great pity. one to be regretted by any
good American, for the New York wo-
man Of fashion is today accepted abroad
as the flower of American civilization.
The blue blooded southern woman Is
beautiful, the cosmopolitan California
is beautiful, but the New York
of fashion, without her bright
and hair, her admirable
her superb gowns and &C.
luired tair," could only be described
BY the most danning of adjectives-
Gertrude Atherton in
New York Sun.