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wives, and the
Vienneses more tender sveethearts.
But for tall, full-blown, generously pro-
poruoned young creatures, with ex-.
quisite skins and clear eyes, London is
lar and away ahead Of any city In the
world.
Miriam Clements, with her amber
eyes and hair as yellow as corn tassels,
is thoroughly typical English beauty.
Like Mrs. Langtry, she was born on
the island Of Jersey, and her admirers
are enthusiastic enough to assert that
she Is more beautiful than the Jersey
Lily herself. Miss Clements IL only
twenty-three years old, and one has to
close ones eyes and think back q good
many years to remember Mrs. Langtry
when she was in the pride of her youth.
If one remembers very clearly the COM
parison would perhaps be hardly to
Miss Clements advantage.
A new generation has, however,
sprung up-a generation Of young men
who never saw Mrs. Langtry at her
best, and who are sure that they have.
never seenanything asbeautifulas Miss
Clements. Following Dorothy Baird,
as Trilby, in London, 1t says q great
deal for Miss Clements that her beauty
made the sensation 1t did. Although
Miss Baird-who dropped playing
Trilby in order to find the time to
marry Henry Irving's son-was the
most atrocious stick In the atrocious
company which played 'Trilby" at the
London Haymarket, she Is one Of the
loveliesl young women In the world.
In a mornings walk down Fifth avenue
you will not see, among all the babies
In their perambulators, one whose eyes
are clearer or whose lips are fresher
than hers.
BY all accounts Miss Clements Is an
other picture Trilby," chosen rather
to fulfil Mr.. Du Maurier's artistic re-
quirements than to meet his exigencies
as an author. 1t is, indeed, unhappily
the case that. the magnificent young
English girl, with the eyes Of a fawn
and the throat Of a dove, is apt to be
as stupid as a heifer. No class Of En-
glfsh girls are, speaking at large, as
bright and quick as American girls, but
nowhere is the difference so perceptiole
as In the beauty class.
A New York chorus girl is not always
the most highly educated, nor yet the
most refined, of her sex; but she Is al
WAYS a uufck-witted young person, who
has a ready answer for everybody, and
Is uncommonly well able to take care OF
herself. The run Of English Gayety
girls. on the other hand, seem hardly
to possess human intelligence. BY
| superhuman patience, the ballet-master
succeeds in teaching them to Walk on
and OF the stage, and to do little
dance but their superhuous intelli-
eence Is so limited that one can read
iIv believe the story that at the shop
Girl" picnic a cynical youth In vain Of
fered the prize of a diamond bracelet &c
anv girl who knew how to spell Charlie
maene II shows even in their pic
tures. this heaviness OF wit
Cissie Crawford has perhaps
brighter face. although her big eye
Iook as IL she might ask stupid ques-
lions on occasion.
Kate Adams, another one Of the bou
ouat Of beauties, has a hard, cold little
face and her figure is absolutely fault
less and she dances like a whirlwind.
Rose bearing is another beauty whit
owsz more to her figure than her face
and a curious fact in this connection i
,hat the lines about her nose ant
mouth indicate that she is well on tn
wrong side of thirty. while her limb
and her bust display the fine, delicat'
lines which afford an almost unnis