The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-13

Times, il Is the boy of the family who is first considered; in America II Is the girl Every roughness Is smoothed from her path; she is, as a rule. spared all responsibility. and, If necessary, iHnumerable sacrifices are made iu order that her gIrlhood should be as gay and as free from care as possible In short. her life is apparently 10 be one perpetual round of enjoyment with practically few or no serious demands upon her time
 The spheres of Eirl-life are sharp ly defined Thus the college girl and the society" girl represent en- tirely different sides of girllife The society" girl is perhaps the most characteristic product Of her coun. try and the one to be most frequent ly encountered Adaptability being one of the keyuotes of her charac- ter. coupled with an unusually quick and obseryant mind. she is a de lightful companion. In her thirst for being up 10 date she is equally interested in clothes and culture Clubs such as the Review Club and the Magazine Club digest the world for her. and provide her with neat ly-worded lozenges containing the essence of any and every subject Her conversation is. therefore. usu- ally brilliant. especially as she al ways possesses that sense of duty causes her to exert every faculty in order to show herself off in the best possible light She has the in finite capacity for taking pains in her dress which amounts in this case 10 positive genius. Her English sister with considerably more nat ural possibilities, such as complex ion, hair, and general good health, lacks the realization as a duty of good dressing-that attention 10 small details which go so far to make up the general appearance of a well-dressed woman
 The English girl, on the whole, compares rather unfavorably with the American as far as culture and it's application are concerned. The country life led by the majority of English girls renders them some what dull as social factors. even if it gives them that knowledge of na- ture. as a birthright. which is de nied to the town-dwelling American girl The contrast, in fact. is be tween a product of nature with the most artificial of products of the most "up-to-date" community. On the other hand. in England it is. after all, customary for every girl to be interested in some form pr other of social and p1ilanthrOpic admirably done as it is. is done by a class of women who are highly educated indeed but who have giv- en up their lives to that one object and form a class apart.
 The men whom the American girl meets are, as a rule, men of her own city, who have a shrewd knowledge of business and who pride themselves on being able Ito size up a man. They have proba- bly travelled to New York and to Chicago and their standard measure is outward success, not perhaps al ways of dollars, but invariably of prominence in the public eye. The English girl Is frequently brought in contact with life as it is lived in different parts of the Empire, for some of her men-folk are sure to be possessed by Wanderlust, which has so often developed into the power of colonizing. The interests in her life are worldwide instead of local and this is reflected in all she does Her very charities extend from Leb anon 10 LeDOmDO, ana nef interest in sport from polo in India to erie ket in Australia. These are the two keynotes of an English girls life politics and sport-and they are both indulged in with that clean ness and yigor which are only pos sible through health of body and mind, with. perhaps, an accompani ment of rustic dulness.
 By nature the American girl is colder and less emotional than the English girl, and her attitude to- wards men is one of unfailing good comradeship. Yet at the same time women are considered by the Amer ican men as a race apart. who must be placed upon pedestal and pro pitiated by much attention and many offerings In a sense the chiv alric instinct is almost too deeply implanted in the American man, and in many of his ideas concerning women he is, although he would be mortified to be told so, curiously medieval. And here again we come upon one of those deep lines o cleavage which divide the Amer ican idaa1c for womaphood from tbe