The times., 1897-08-22

an equaIf great fame. Once the scientist
has written his thesis, once the historian
iras wrii ten Lis history, both must lock their
xbo9ks up in library, to which all access
VIII be forbidden We want this done for
the same reason that we talk about Her
bert spencer = works without reading them.
we want to know that the American girl
has been recorded, explained aud glorified
by inteIleets worthy OF the subject. We
want TO know that we have the result
where We can lay our hands on it, simply
to squash the arguments OF ans foreigner
who says lis girl is superior To ours just
because she is his girl. An American is
broad minded. He doesn't like his girl be-
cause she is his girl but because sheis, as
sure as there is any Justice in the world,
better than anybody eise's.
That is enough. For We don't want 70
read books about the American girl when
we have the live subject itself on hand.
Tie books might be lent. however, out 5f
kindness. 10 foreigners, who are ot allo wed
To feast their eyes on American girls
every time they go into the street,
Yet I must confess that do sometimes
think tie American man needs a triok to
Temind him occasionally or the privileges he
is enjoying To al American returning
after d long residence abroad the American
girl bursts upon him the finest and Iiost
wonderful creation of these United States
cf meTiv;,. She Is 4 distinct type. She IS
the real American. For years It mas been
sai'i that the American was d nobody. He
had no nationality; he was a uOngrel.
Fnreign critics said with condecension that
some time we might develop d distinctive
type Of human being 10 be called Ameri
can. Then they sighed as they thought OF
what This type would be. They wer. good
enough to say that it would be a rune an
beng with ali the Biblical sins, all the
faults of other nationalities, and II It;lm-
Der rf faults invented by the foreign crit
les themselves as necessary to.the vert x
isueHcc Of an AmeIicaI. type But this ype
would not come Tor u century at least
But the type is already here-or half OF
it is here; for in this country, ., foreign
critic. woman is Just as important as
raun. The American woman is as distinct
u type of woman as either the English or
the French woman, aud she is so fine that
the foreign critic cannot appreciate her
The pitiable fellow goes about searching
for bad type, and because he cannot
find her among American women he
biitHhs tHda no " l'- dl all eAlSlS-
The American girl has the virtues Of
| both the French and the English girl
The French and the English girls to-
get.er not paving enough virtues combined
TO make one good American girl, t!.e
American has added several virtues, which
are purely OF her own establishment.
The most apparent of the American girl S
distinctive characteristics is her style.
That is something We all can enjoy, as It
is to he seen on the streets. Ones first
impression is that every woman in the
country is a lady. How vast is the cou-
trast between the girls of the poorer
districts of London and New York, for
instance
An American factory girl has more style
tran most Englishwomen of the middle
| classes, though the English women have
many enyia bic qualities which by the w ay.
| the American girl has received through her
grandmother. Your American factory GIL
viii take a 35-cent waist and So 80
| skirt. and with 45-cent hat make herself
| downright 'natty."
| As for the American typewriter girls,
! the first time ! observed the entrance to O
| great off, building at lunch time l came
| near asking the elevator man IL the -Four
| Hundred were holding reception in the
| building that afternoon The English
| typewriter girl wears bun on the back OF
her head, aI.d-well, some folk say she Is
| a good workwoman.
| Personally, have theory that in the
| future our college football players, oars
| men and other great men will refer with
| pride to the fact that their grandmcthers
/ were typewritists, who rode bicycle out
| of office hours This knack OF dressing
| IL supposedly the unapproachable gift af
| the Frenchwornan. The American girl
| has not only caught the trick, but she has
| added TO 1T a decided individuality Of her
| own. she has an advantage, to begin with.
! II the English girl is too thin, the French
girl is inclined to be stout, particularly
after she reaches twenty five. The Ameri
| can girl-why, she is just right.
Sometimes the French woman is inclined
| to dress a little too loud the American
| woman rarely. If French woman can
| take SO worth of goods and make herself
| more lovely than an English woman with
| $50 worth, the American woman can do
| the same thing, only little better. She
| has also the grand talent of placinga simple
| little bow just where it belongs, making
| it more beautiful than brooch of dia-
| monds. She will put it there after the
| first glance into a mirror, and is the more
| charming because she cannot tell you
| why
| From my own mannish and superficial
J viewpoint / should say that her hair is
| about the toughest problem that woman
| has on her hands. While the American man
is more inclined to badness than any other