Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-04-09
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40 Declares That ho Women
no1ue show Were an hight
~ been very much amused ny
Gertrude Ashorton's lottor in
n sho svocpingly condemns the
In Of New York seen By her at tho
show Tor the reason that they
IN Mrs Athcrton's Judgment. tho
sauty Of the southern aud (sic) Cali.
mia women. While / must admire
instinct which makes ono stand mp
mes native state "a a producer Of
most beautiful women, especially
- the writer is a woman. / am
scel 70 mirth BY the ridiculous crit
ssns Of a representative Now York
.omen seen at the great annual festival
fheard n travelled and titled Englishman
'eclaro last week ~ he walked past tho
owing partorre Of radiant womanhood
At tho Madison Square Garden that he
had never seen at any court gathering
a an any city In the world such n dis
play Of beauty Of form and face, a
showing that gave 10 New York city
the famo It has throughout the civilized
world. even in California, for its mag
nihcont feminine population. We do
not need a foreign cnohot however, for
! think Il was our own Mark Twain
who remarked, There Is q goddess
Eaoe about a New York woman, some
thing more than mere clothes, that can
DO recognized tho world over"
OF course l am forced to agree with
Mrs. Atherton that Jur New York beau.
tics do not boast the preponderance Of
nose which the talented authoress has
vainly sought for. II she had looked
inside the ring, she would have found
nose enough to satisfy her cravings in
this direction, but / really have yet 70
learn that a snporabundance Of probes
els IL a necessary adjunct to beauty.
But that such faces as those Of Mrs.
Burke Roche, Mrs SuiIern Taller, Mrs.
Elisha Dyer, Jr.. Mrs. Duncan Elliott
and others equally beautiful should DO
called merely commonplace Is a dis
tiDctly humorous assertion.
The beauty Of the southern women
that Samuel Minturn Peck has made nj
so we'll acquainted with is something
we are all proud Of. Her modesty and
womanliness are among her greatest
charms. The face Of the wild and more
or less woolly western female Is some
thing Of another type, Of which we will
not speak in the same breath. The
greasy female, with badly fitting
clothes, as portrayed in the modern
erotic novel, is not to be found at the
horse show. She would find 1t difficult
TO obtain admittance, and IL she did so
would fnd herself ia uncongenial COM
pany.
Mrs. AthertOn nnively remarked,
Tho 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 way-which he offered for sale.
"All the place wants. said he, lis
more water. a cooler climate and good
society to make il a perfect paradise.
"Well. that's all hell wants., re-
sponded his client.
Take any womsn-a Californian
woman even, with all her general raw
ness and her bury speech-give her
bright complexion and hair, superb
gowns and an air, natural or acquired,
and you will have a very fetohy female.
Take a New York woman under these
circumstances, with all her esprit, chic
and poise. and you have the most
charming Of Tesults-the New York
woman as seen at the horse show. ! can
not believe that Mrs. Atherton saw any
representative woman at the show. She
must have come across a bevy Of house
maids allowed to use a box for an after.
noon and mistaken them for society
leaders Kate Masterson in New Yori
Sun.