New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-29
As OTHERS SEE Us.
T1cO English Women's Viezcs Of
Nezc-Y Workers and Their Ways.

'Nlew-York isn't half so up-to-date as we expect
Cd il would be-" said Miss Livingstone. Of Cape
Town South Africa, who with her sister, arrived
from England the Celtic few days ago. They
have been spending the year and eight months
since they left their African home in travels in the
British Isles and on the Continent, and they
now on their way home across the continent by
way Of san Francisco. the Hawaiian Islands and
Australia.
with the exception OF your checking system and
your ice water tapped through the hotels, / don't
see that NeW-York has anything more than Lon
don oddly enough. though, England has never
introduced the American checking system. Far
away Cape Colony has adopted IL on the leading
lines Of railroad New-York makes me think all
the time Of a Continental city. II isn't English a
bit And we cant seem to find any Americans
IN II. Whenever we try to identify an American
We are told She is Irish German I think all
NeN-Yorkers are either Irish or German
MEN NOT EVEN GOOD LOOKING.
-.T1e been asked several times If didn't think
the Americans handsome" said the younger Miss
LIVINGSTONE NO. / don't l don't even think
them good looking. ] haven't seen any good look
Ing men in New-York. They've all got such pasty
coraplezions like London clerks and shopmen-
With Us upper class men have bright color in
their cheeks. They look well tubbed and groomed.
and they never. Oh never. 90 round with their
coats unbuttoned. And what does the American
man do with his waistcoat? He certainly doesn't
Il. We have II Just as not IN cape AO"n
as you 90 in New-York, but no man ever goes TO
business in dishabile like that
Il should say your women were rather finer phys
ically than your men Your New-York woman
certainly carries herself splenddly. And then she
dresses so well. No I don't think her pretty
really don't-but I dare say the American beauties
one hears much about away at the shore
and mountains. But they dress so suita bly, Noth-
ing tawGry about them. The LONDON girl VIII Day
& bit OF cheap jewe.ry and IT, and her general
effect VIII be tawdry and cheap. The American
puts on her Rewgaws, and they may be cheap, put
Americans clllhes seem wen CUT ana OF sSou ma
terials. The English blouses-shrts you call them?
Shrrwsistsl Thank you-are far pretJier and better
than the English
EXPECTED WOMEN TO BE SHGDDY.
81 was greatly surprised to ind American
women so plain in their dress and they don't wear
half SO many diamonds as I supposed they did.
According TO the English notion they 90 down
10 breakfast scintHating with diamonds and they
wear their diamonds ont in the rain or on the golf
links 10 the dentists. right round TO bedtime
again. American women are pictured as loading
themselves down with necklaces and ornaments but
! have never seen an American woman wearing
three necklaces al time and that to breakfast!
The most noticeable thing about the apparel of
american women is their wells Not the wells they
wear o-ef Llelr faces. put the ggSSameT wells
nave floating out from their hats behind No Eng
AshWomau ever wears mat kind Of a veil I've
seen PINK ana pale lavender. and blue and green
M1lLe- ~ Europe you can pick out the American
glTls by the wells futtering around their heads
C1r Ne"-lork friends wear them. and they are
S.aSS gi-lclllAS a. them and holding them
,5n ana saying, on. what bother This veil is.
bul they continue 70 wear them" And the sisters
'Ookel az each other ana laughed.
GIRLS ARE UNAFFECTED.
Don't think New-York men go nicely shod? 7