The herald., 1897-08-29

girls distinctive characteristics Is her
style. That Is something we all can
enjoy, as 1t is to be seen on the streets.
Ones first impression is that every wo-
man in the country is a lady. How
vast is the contrast between the girls
Of the poorer districts of London and
New York, for instance!
An American factory girl has more
style than most Englishwomen Of the
middle classes, though the English wo-
men have many enviable qualities
which, by the way, the American girl
has received through her grandmother.
Your American factory girl will take
thirty -five-cent waist and $3.50 skirt,
and with a forty-five-cent hat make
herself downright "natty."
STYLE OF OUR TYPEWRITER
GIRLS.
AS for the American typewriter girls,
the first time I observed the entrance
to great office building at lunch time
came near asking the elevator man If
the Four Hundred were holding a re-
ception in the building that afternoon.
The English typewriter girl wears a
bun on the back Of her head, and-well,
| some folk say she is good workwo-
man.
| Personally have a theory that in the
future our college football players, oars
| men and other great men will refer
with pride to the fact that their grand
mothers were typewritists, who rode a
bicycle out of office hours. This knack
of dressing is supposedly the unap-
proachable gift of the French woman.
The American girl has not only caught
the trick, but she has added to it de-
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an advantage to begin with. If the
English girl is too thin, the French girl
is inclined to be stout, particularly aft
er she reaches 25. The American girl
why she is just right.
Sometimes the Frenchwoman is in
clined to dress little too loud; the
American woman rarely. If a French
woman can take $40 worth of goods and
make herself more lovely than an Eng
lishwoman with $50 worth, the Amer
lean woman can do the same thing, on
ly little better She has also that
grand talent of placing a simple little
bow just where it belongs, making it
more beautiful than a brooch of dia-
monds. She will put it there after the
flrst glance into mirror, and is the
more charming because she cannot tell
you why
DOING THE HAIR JUST RIGHT,
From my own mannish and super
nclal viewpoint I should say that her
half is ABOUT the toughest problem that
woman has on her hands. While the
American man is more inclined to bald
ness than any other nationality. save
possibly the French-I have counted
1lfty baldheads in a row at the Grand
Opera-the American woman has more
hair as rule than either the English
woman or the Frenchwoman.
Inc Englishwoman buys most of her
halr In shop, and ties it on the back
OF her head after much wearisome la
Dor. The Frenchwoman brushes up her
hair-by strange contrast to her COM
plex1on it is really her own-tying II
into little knot on the top of her head
about as big as baby's fist How the
American girl does up her hair, again
nobody knows; probably by intuition.
which is her great strength. Also, with
her fingers, of course! A few deft
touches and she has done the deed that
seems the work of great artist.
Ihls American girl has also made a
true art of holding up her skirts. The
French girl holds up her skirts, a lit
tie high, with both hands, which isn't
nice. The English girl gets an awk-
ward sort of sailors knot on her back
skirt. Again, the American girls way
Is just right, and is accomplished by
her usual wonderful and inexplicable
method.
The English girls face is too long and
thin; her upper lip too naughty. Too
often the French girls face is not her
own. The difference between an Amer
lean and French girls face is the
difference between the hand-painted
scenery of theatre and a real land
scape. If faces are any test, the Amer
lean girl is healthier than her tea
drinking English sister. The Ameri-
can girl knows how to smile and how
to talk, and the English girl doesn't.
AS a young Member of Parliament
once said to me: DO you know, real
ly, If had to talk an hour with a wo-
man, I should much prefer an Ameri-
can woman"
Copyright. 1897. by Bachelor Syndicate.