The Portland daily press., 1896-12-19
i'd intelligence that glorihes oounte-

and intelligence that glorifies oounte-
| nance.
The Germans themselves feel the
difference. They can always tell an
American girl at sight. GLOW do you
know them2' asked German, who
had declared that he could always reoog.
nize my countrywomen, even beIofe
they spoke.
They look more delicate" he said,
than our women. !"
Whils thar In not strictly true, it is
suggestiv G. Looking at typical Amer
lean woman, one is more conscious of
personality than of body, more cognizant
of expression than Of feature. They have
more life, animation and vitality to the
square inch than have the German WON
81.
Yhen, besides being prettier, the
Americans do dress in better tasta than
tho Germans. The fashionable German
girl wears too many colors, and, in the
large towns at least, is too aggressiyely
cosseted Whatever the American woni-
an at home may do, she is likely to wear
quiet. tailor-made gowns on the streets
Of foreign city. Tine rich German is
fond of the bright velvet and plush Co.'S
thmes.
Then, the modern German girl likes
unlimited bangs, and big hats with
coarse wells. That make her head and
ruddy countenance look like peach bas-
ket covered with mosquito netting.
The American girl is more interesting
than her German sister for various res-
SONS. 70 begin with, she is nearly al
ways better educated. Most Garman
girls stop school at the age Of 16. They
spend the next few years in knitting lace
and, gossiping. II they aron't engaged
by the time they are 20, everybody thinks
TREY ought to be. .g8
The ignorance of tho ordinary German
girl about things outside the German
empire is monumental. German girl
asked me one day If we had slaves in
New York. / told her that We hadn't
had any in America since the war. "Ob,
yes,'' she said, THAT war was between
NORTH and South Amerloa-wasn It 1t. !"
She did not know that Germany Is small
Ter than the United States. She is natu-
rally intelligent. but is unfortunate
enough to have been born about twenty
i've years. ago inssGermnny rather than
In America.
Then the American girl knows more OF
the world and its ways than does the
German girl. She has seen moro, heard
more, perhaps thought moro. When she
has ideas she expresses them, pro-
cseding that amuses German, who
dcesn't feel responsible for her.
you American women are go puZ-
zlipg,' said an old German lady one
day. 81 never feel that knowing one of
you gives me any clew to what the next
one will be like.
Because the American girl has won
reputation for Independence she ia per-
mittsd to do with impunity a great
many things that her German sister
would not dare attempt. The explana-
tion 'sshe is nm American" covers any
little peculiarities that would not be toll
Grated In d German.
An American girl was one day travel
ing alone from here to Wcimar. There
were several German women in the same
coacn With characteristic national in
quisitiveness they interrogated her on
her life, past, present and to come. FL
nslIy she turned on them and asked if
one of them could tell her which WAS the
best hotel in Weimar.
"Why. Frauleiu, haven't you any rel
atiyes heTe?'
mo-
"Any friends?"
"No."
ANY acquaintancea9''
"No."
"Why, what, uln Gottes willen, are
you going there for, them"
''I want to see the town.
"And why, prayi''
aBecause Gosthe and Schiller and
Herder and TIielaud and Liszt once lived
there. y
"And yoa are going alone to hotel,
Fraulein?''
Yes of course.
The women gssped. They were silent.
staring at the dreadful American girl,
until one of their number exclaimed
apologetically Zach, die American
erinnen sind INNER SO selbstandig-
American women are always so indie
pendent.
But Germans don't want to marry
that sort of woman, much as they may
be entertained by her. German women
may be less pretty and graceful, but
they are stronger, and the chances are
that they will be able and willing to
raise as large family as the hears Of
man could desire. They may not be
SO well dressed, but then they are less
extravaganza. They may not be SO inter-
esting, since they are not so well educat-
sd, nor so travelled, nor so independent
as ars American women, but they nre
q thousand times more traotable.
German men are magnificent creatures
to look OF. Better corseted specimens OF
flesh and blood and padding it would be
hard to find; if that constitutes man
hood, they are men par excellence.
American men are a lean and scrawny
lot in comparison. If one sex improves
at the expense of the other, the German
decidedly does not want to go the way of
the American men, and so he will re-
frain form marrying their girls.
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