The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-27
GIRLS OF LIMERICK
BEN TRUMAN SAYS THEY ARE
THE PRETTIEST IN THE
WORLD
LOUISVILLE MAIDENs NEXT
Philadelphia Young Women Don't
Have to Go Away Back and
Sit Down at the Beauty
Show.

If were asked Where are the pref
test girls in the world?' 1 will ~imme-
dIately reply in Limerick, ireland. There
is freshness of face, lustrousness of
eyes. healthfulness of color and COM
pleXion about the Limerick girls, en-
masse, that carry off the sweepstakes
trophy. The girls of Cork and of the
lakes-in fact, of the country all the way
down from Dublin-are somewhat of the
Limerick order. In form they constitute
happy medium between the rotund
English maids across one channel and
the sylph-nke Partisan demoiselles be-
yond the other.
But the Limerick face is the perfection
OF female beauty-a human ceramic with
cut a blemish. The Limerick girl is also
the highest example of exquisite wit and
ingenuousness-an extraordinary assim-
Dation, to be sure In other words, while
she is not insensible of her sparkle of
words, she seems like one who has never
locked frequently into mirror. She has
regular and sometimes very pretty teeth;
and if her nose is often inclined to re-
trousser and there is an Irish expression
of MOUTH these but add piquancy to her
other beautiful features.
1t is the perfect peach that is incom-
parably lovely to look at and to eat. The
Irish little girl is not particularly at
tractiVe;. nor does the beauty and fresh
ness of the Irish maiden possess winsome d.
staying qualities Even before she reach
eS twenty, or at any time after marriage,
the irresistible bloom on cheek and
sparkle of eye have perceptibIy disap-
peared I know of no woman who goes
u pieces so rapidly as the beautiful Irish
girl, and especially after marriage. 1 ac-
count for this thus: Hard work andS
drudgery from childhood up, excessive
family perils and cares, harsh climatic
potentialities, and ignorance or disesteem
of facial decorative art" The north OF
Ireland girls are not so pretty as their
southern sisters.
The next most beautiful maidens of
the world, of from sixteen to twenty in
my estimation, are those of Louisville
and Philadelphia-as one sees them on
the streets, in church. at the theater, or
at the fair-with an excess of vivacity in
the one and more delicacy of refinement
In the other The hair of majority of
the fair Kentuckians shades from a dark
TO golden brown, and their eyes are
also of a brown or hazel. Their COM
pleXions are generally fine and their
voices sweet and pearly. The PhiIa-
delphia girls are not so conscious of their
superior beauty as are the maidens of
Louisville and Lexington, who early be-
come, like their parents and their horses,
exceedingly high steppers. But the Phil
adeiphla beauties have-besides their
hands ONE compilations auburn brown or
haxen hair, hazel and blue eyes, and
other embracing features-the most deli
eately formed hands and feet of ALL The
women of Louisville from maidenhood
to fair, fat, and forty seem to DOS
sess high average, and show off to bet
ter or more glowing advantage than
their sisters of the Quaker City, who
arrive at fair and forty without the al
1teratlve tissue, and to q great degree
Setray the dulcet voice, gentle manner
0l
Before. Nashville, also, is noted for
Its beautiful girls; and forty years ago
tennessee had more majestic women in
w Washington than had Maryland.
The prettiest brunettes in the world are
the Cleoles of New Orleans-that is. thew
are pretty Of face and figuce They have
eyes and hair and expression of mouth
that truly captlvate. Neither in Seville
or CordoVa--where the women are IA
nous for their IuXuriant hair and flash
ing eyes-or elsewhere in Spain, are the
young women so beautiful as in New Or
leans Their skins too, are of that soft.
delicate tint sometimes seen in A sea-
shell. But their beWitchments end here
Ihey are dull and unInteresting while
their Andalusian rivals carry everything
before them-into xicating you with their
effervescing vivacity, hypnotizing Won
with their dulcet dimlnuendos of articu
lat1oE and positively flashing YOU into
sensuous servitude with their Dangerous
eyes. think the elderly Creoles of New
orleans the prettiest and seemingly the
best preserved gray-haired women any,
where. They are generally petite, ex-
tremely polite, and agreeable in CONVEX
sation. They become lined, to be sure
sometimes shriveled; but they go IN tneiI. !
graves with lustrous eyes, and with the |
Eandsomest heads Of gray hair known tn |
%o1nanklnd. Other than. Creole women
nave made New Orleans famous for it. |
female beauty, some of whom are QUITE |
statuesque.
The next most beautiful brunettes tn |
those of New Orleans, according to nv |
sense of view, are those of Buda. Pesth
Ourlng two or three fair afternoons On |
the promenades in that Hungarian CITY.
ana at the opera, [ thought 1 had never
seen such splendid young women-an
with dark hair and eyes, brilliant COM
and form.
am not unmindful of the fact thar
Baltimore enjoyed for a hundred years
quite up to forty years or less aeo-an
undlsputed reputation for the rare beau
ty and grace of it's women This MIC
torial fact has so fastened itself upon the
susceptible mind that there are MANY
now VINO perpetuate the claim who have
merely learned by heart what thew de-
light in saying, but who have never even
seen the city of Baltimore or a Balti-
more belle. To be sure, there WIS a
time when Baltimore boosted of Eliza
beth Patterson-the marvelously beauti
ful and brilliant daughter of a lucky Irish
adVenturer-who became the wife of Je-
rome Bonaparte; whose fascination and
superbness realized Tennyson's Dream
OF Fair Women and of whom it was
said, in Paris, that beauties envicd her.
beauty and wits dreaded her wit. kings
sought her acquaintance, and princes
claimed her friendship There also
fiourished in the Baltimore court of beam
~, at about the same time the three
Misses Caton-also partly of Irish ex-
traetlon-and who, when presented to the
then prince regent by the Duke of
Wellington, caused him to exclaim: rs
1t possible that the world can produce
such beautiful women?' Later there wac
MISS Georgiana McCausland, also partly
of Irish parentage, whose delightful VIC.
let eyes induced Poe to bestow them
upon his "Eulalie" And there was Hen
rletta Won Kapff, who was said by the
poets and soldiers of her day to have
been the most beautiful woman ever
seen in Maryland, and who inspired
Plnkney's rapturous serenade, commence
ing: ]
Look out upon the stars, my love-
And shame them with thine eyes,
And who, after refusing 100 suitors, mar
iIeu John Bankhead Magruder, admit
teoly the handsomest man at that time
colonel of artillery, and afterWard
major general in the Confederate service
A renowned Baltimore beauty was Miss
Ellen Swan, who married Philip Barton
Spangled Banner'-who was shot and
killed in Washington by Gen Dan n