New-York tribune., 1903-04-13

Bile for some terrible floral atrocities. What but
depraved artistic taste would have dreamed OF
tying white satin bows Oh growing Easter Ahes
and Of fussing up pots OF azaleas with a hashy
spread Of pink satin bows and ends? Really, this
is gliding the lily and painting the rose with dnI
sfaii no longer encircie their sandwiches with loops
Of baby ribbon. is not word respected BY the
Easter florist, who mixes up millinery and flowers
IN really Gothic confusion
English women have neither beauty brains, If
their latest critic Angus Mcneil is to be believed
in his book THE Egregious English Fully 10 per
cent Of English women not beautiful to look
upon" he declares Some Of them. he admits, have
"a girlsh prettiness which accompanies thern
into their thirtieth year and sckens slowly into
sourness AT forty little Chiffon q. e. the modern
English woman has crows feet and fiat cheeks
and a distinct tendency TO the nutcracker type or
profile" The young women whose pictures adorn
the illustrated weekes particularly obnoxious
to Mr McNeil's sensibiJiies. 1.-The merest glance
at these photographs convnces you that the lovely
Miss snooks is about good looking as the aV-
erage kitchen wench while the two oeauu1uI
daughters Of Lady Beertap have faces like the
hacks Of ca bs" Nor IS the English woman's mental
equipment any more satisfactory TO Mr.. Mcneil
than her appearance. TO dress, ano 20 !.s 5daA.ns
and thinking about II, the English woman GeFoles @
hOPs bpsv t FP it. morn This 50 woTidnes
she 10 transmit 10 her ple zen 1itIe foot';
footl under her mild. blue, greedy eye. the
Engshman has become caPeT1ng carPeJ Pircad Ht,s
innancT the shadow Of his former self ApPar-
entity the author has been unnercifuly snupn&ed & at
Even alien critics Ike ProspfFb fbat fe Engish
woman is the finest specimen of her KIND IN me
oTd a aer ifo middle age has long made her the
envy of the American woman AS loI Tj, Eior
60 cou-t NiebtingaIe Mrs Browning. George Eliot
and queen cS5Te+ deserves better than to have
them characterized empty headea He[SSais HNeIN=ii
dolls even though the critic be only Mr.. MCNEIL
According TO Herbert Burrows. one OF the leao-
ers of the ethical culture movement IN tnglahu'
the sweet girl graduates Of Newman ana 1lIi''
a-e -,anifesttug pronounced tendency toward free
+L,,ct. q, religious matters. It's curious fact.
he saws but oxford and Cambridge men are for
the most part q mean those VINO go III 4oI
ligion at alb extreme rftuaIists' "hlle uIi'iei''
o-,er vaneraiiv 20 10 the other extreme and ap-
.. .+to-a1isrn of one degree 0 another. L
eunrose this is accounted for by the fact that as
Yet only reasonably clever women & 60 hee se open to
men ~ moor talents. People can laugh at EngHsn
women all they Ike make iu5 Continues Mr Bur
rows but when it comes TO reai ny tbn English
oman holds second position 9 none ne onoTPS In fPs
ethical culture movement she - zerv - fair minority
as compared to men; but IL Is vi +atan1ant that
am willing to make the general sidteIi Ne e dis
the English eofg tsan taI Of her who is edu
Gated in the same uniVerslly-
,--,,s htqbest work according TO Dr. Lyman
.t,o++ g. +o make a man out of baby DF- AD,
bott was the chief speaker at mass .s -.
recently under the auspices OF women oppoeeo -,
the further extension Of woman suIilaee assay
-, q, nv, archives" he said. 4 have an essay.
Itten when was forty years younger IN tafoe an5
s enffrage little later was maj MAJ - l ~ ra
M 90 converted 10 a belief IN the am - Iiia
1noyement ! am speaking ts to-lsI.r [3 the ballot /
r'I1s tjghest work given to Wofflai i - '
the little babe a man
rsv history class. the object of which Is 10
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