The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-27
Mr.. Box Writes of the Beauty
of BIRMINGHAM Women

Edward Box, in the Ladies Home Jour
nal, comments cditorially upon the follow
ing query, which came from a Bostonian:
where, pray, does your magazine, ami
where do your artists find the pretty
American girls shown in the photographs
and drawings printed on your pages? Arc
they not largely the result of Photographic
skill and the imagination of the artists? II
not, where do these girls exist? Do not con-
strue these questions as individual; they
are those which 1 have often heard asked
by other young men,"
Mr. Box very candidly says that some
thing must be fearfully out Of joint IN Bos-
ton, and in referring to the attractiveness
of the American girl, says:
Where are the pretty girls? Well, about.
seven-eighths of them are absolutely to be
found in Philadelphia. And if this state
ment is at all doubted, walk down Chest
nut street on any sunshiny morning, or
through Rittcnhouse Square any Sunday
morning after church, will more than sub
stantiate it. Or let these Boston young
men go to Baltimore and they will see
procession of pretty American girls un-
equaled in this country. Or, they might
walk down Fifth avenue, in New YORK, an /
see the beauty types of the world. Iney
might even go closer home and see the CIR
of Hartford, whom enc who had traye.cd
over half a million miles in all nations SAID
he had never seen equaled. II they VIII go
to Charleston and walk along its battery, or
attend it's Saint Cecilia, they Will Tor once
see the radienee of the gilded dome on
Boston's state house outclassed IN the daz-
zling beauty of it's girls Nor VIII any
young man from Boston or elsewhere ever
ask if there are pretty giF.s after sii1sle
visit to Louisville. There's town where
one may pick them out blindfolded, and De.
gin to wonder if such thing as a money
woman exists. If he stil remains skepueai'
he might attend a Mardi Gras ball at New
Orleans or a Chickasaw Guards dance AT
Memphis. Or he might go to Mobile, whose
women a French painter once SAID, Were
the equal of any pretty women on me
globe. And should he go to birmingham
the same comparison would hold gooa
But one need not, by any means say
south to find pretty girls, although utei
the land is fragrant with them. lie neeo
only to attend a Theodore lhomas recieai
at the Auditorium to be convinced eiia'
Chicago has some of the lovellest gris III
the country. He can go TO Denver, "he,e
il is said there are more beautllul guns
than in any other city of its size In Amer
lea He can go to San Francisco, where
mon ask eastern visitors II they ever see
any homely women in the east. remeHl-
her the establishment of friend, Wheh ne
dropped into Burrows book store IN CieNe-
land one day just previous to the hoiluay
season, at the wonderfully even beauty OIL
the Cleveland girls he saw there puyinS
books. 1t is common remark in WASH
ington. where the beautiful girls OF o1ner
nations are brought side by side with our
own, that there has never been sIll ~
longing to the diplomatic circle, no matter
how beautiful and charming, who has not
neen outrivaled by some American girl pc
fore the season was over. No pretty gTis
Thy, America is the land OF tneni' "c.
knowledeed the world over as the nation OF
pretty girls and beautiful women. Even
in far-off India, where the soft tropical
clima and the languor of life are SO con
ducive to the beauty of its women IL mas
remained for Lady Curzon, Chicago giri'
To exhaust the vocabularies of its most DIS
tinguished savants and most ardent "or-
shippers at the shrine of feminine beauty.
Even the Greeks who visit America return
to their country wondering how they ever
could have regarded their women as oeau-
tiful.