Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-06-05
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN GIRLS.
Lady Randolph. Churchill Describes Their
characteristics.


characteristics.
american girls" writes Lady Ran
doIph Churchill (Mrs. George Corn
wallis West), IN the Pail Mall Gazette
''are better read than English, and hav'
generally Travelled before they maxi
their appearance in the world. Where
as whole family of English girls ar
educated by more or less incompeten
governess ess-with perhaps few extr'
lessons from master In elocutiOn o.
music to finish them before they COM
out-the A American girl in the sam'
condition of life will begin from bel
earliest age with the best professor
in all branches; she will be taken t.
Paris to follow courses, to Italy to SCI
pictures and to Germany for music i
she has any talent, and by the time sh'
is IS she is able to assert her views or
most things and her independence IL
all. She has full appreciation ant
knowledge of what she wants and o
what is best, and in all things strives
to attain it. She seldom loses hel
heart and never her head; the coldnesl
with which she Is reproached being
perhaps. one of the sources of her pow
er.
''On the other hand, her education
has many disadvantages not shared by
that of the English girl; most Ameri
cans not understanding the word home
as it is understand in English. Theil
life of change, travelling and hotels
engenders that restlessness for which
they are noted and which adheres tt
them through life. They are often
at disadvantage, therefore, not be
ing brought up with that practica
knowledge in household matters which
is one of the triumphs of English ed.
ucation, and which, when she embarks
on matrimony, arms woman to some
extent with the sinews of war.
ut has often been said that rever-
ence is not one of the virtues mostly
prominent in the American character,
and this, added to women's advanced
education, makes them very impatient
of control and often wanting in respect
to their parents and elders, according
to old-fashioned European ideas.
Caressed and humored from their in
fancy and welding immense capricious
power, being treated as goddesses be-
hind the altar rather than as comrades
in the line of battle, their confidence
in themselves is naturally unbounded.
1.-The American is perhaps the best
dressed woman in the world. Although
in the realm of dress the French have
the creative genius, as nation they
do not possess the figures to show off
the costumes whereas the rising gen
Grafton in America, emulating the
English, have taken vigorously to
athletics and physical exercise general
ly, the result being fine, tall, young
women.
"The extraordinary improvement
in Englishw women's dress in
the last twenty years is only equal to
that in the decoration and furnishing
of their houses, and this might with
reason be ascribed to the infiuenc Q
and example of Americans. When
dress we'll they are
wonderfully picturesque = more SO
than Americans and when they keep
to their own particular style and do
not try to wear outre French fashions,
which they do not as rule understand
how to put on, they are very success
full. The English woman is at her best
in the midst of country life there in
the matter of dress she reigns supreme.
1t was che who set in fashion of the
practical and sensible dresses now so
widely adopted in America and other
countries by all women who care for
sport and live out ot-door lives.
1.-The American woman has often
been taxed with being extravagant,
and, if this be true, her bringing up
must be held mostly responsible. The
hard working, busy man of Wall
street, stepped all day in the making
of dollars, wants when he comes home
to find his women folk beautifully
dressed, and their surroundings in
keeping for them he slaves-that is
the object of his life and work. In
their company it is natural that he
should detest any illusion or reference
to the ways and means of all the luxu
ry they enjoy. They dip into the cof'
fers and ask no questions.
"Women in England have muct
more scope for mixing in politics OF
public life than women have in Ameri
ca, which is probably due to the differ
ent system of political life there, ant
also to their different bringing up
There is no doubt that life in England
is on much larger lines and more full
of occupation for women of the leisur
ed classes than that of any othel
country. Everything is open to then
| if they have the ability. In American
society, women, with q few exceptions
Iseem to have neither the inclination
nor the opportunity of taking them
selves as seriously as they do IN Eng
land, where all are more or less engag
ed in philanthrOpic schemes or worl
of some kind, and the greater or NOR
prominent the social position the NOR
they are called on to do"
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