Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-02-26

A Critic who Declares Tha tho Women
~ tho Itorse show We're All Right.
have been very much amused BY
Mrs Gertrude Athorton's letter iu
which she swoopingly condemns the
women Of New York seen BY her at tho
horse show Tor tho reason that they
lack, in Mrs. Atherton's Judgment, tho
beauty Of the southern and tsicj Cali
fornia women. While must admire
the instinct which makes one stand up
for one's nntivo state o. q producer Of
the most beautiful womcn, especially
when the writer IL a woman, I am
moved 10 mirth by tho Ridiculous crit
icisms Of our representative New York
women socn at the great annual festival.
Iheard a travelled aud titled Englishman
declare last week as he walked past the
glowing parterre Of radiant womanhood
OF the Madison Square Garden that he
had never seen at any court gathering
OF in any city IN the world such a dis
play Of beauty Of form and face, q
showing that gave TO New York city
the fame Il has throughout the civilized
world. even in California, for its mag
nifcent feminine population. We do
not need q foreign caohet, however, for
/ think IL was our own Mark Twain
who remarked, ''Thero Is o goddess
grace about a New York woman, some
thing more than mere clothes, that can
DO recognized the world over"
H
OF course ] am forced to agree with
Mrs. Atherton that our Now York beau
ties do not boast the preponderance of
nose which the talented authoress has
vainly sought for. II she had looked
inside tho ring, she would have found
nose enough TO satisfy her cravings in
this direction, but l really have Jet to
learn that a superabundauco Of probes
els Is n necessary adjunct to beauty.
But that such faces as those Of Mrs.
Burke Roche, Mrs. Suffern Taller, Mrs.
Elisha Dyer, Jr., Mrs. Duncan Elliott
and others equally beautiful should be
called merely commonplace is a dis
tinctly humorous assertion.
The beauty Of tho southern women
that Samuel Minturn Peck has made US
SO well acquainted with is something
VIC are all proud Of. Her modesty and
womanlinoss are among hor greatest
charms. The face Of the wild and more
or less woolly western female is some
thing Of another type, Of which we viii
not speak in the same breath. The
greasy female. with badly fitting
clothes, as portrayed in the modern
erotic novel, is not to DO found at the
horse show. She would find it difficult
to obtain a~dmittance, and If she did so
would find herself in uucongenial com
pany.
Mrs. Anterior naively remarked,
THE New York woman Of fashion
without her bright complexion and hair,
her admirable grooming, her superb
gowns and acquired air could only be
described as commonplace" This re-
minds me Of the real estate man who
was praising the lots-western lots, by
the w~Ry-which no offered for sale.
IAN the place wants, - said be, sis
moro water, a cooler climate and good
society to make il a perfect paradise"
"Well, that's oil hell wants, " re-
sponded his client.
Take any woman-n Californian
woman even, with all her general raw
ness and her bury spcech-give her
bright complexion and hair. superb
gowns and an mir, natural or acquired,
and you will have a very fetchy female.
Take n New York woman under these
circumstances, with all her esprit, chic
and poise, and you have tho most
charming of results-tho New York
woman as seen at tho horse show. / can
not believe that Mrs. Atherton saw any
representative woman at the show. She
must have como across a bevy Of house
maids allowed to use q box for an after
noon and mistaken them for society
leaders. -Kate Masterson in New York
Sun.