MRS. SCOTT-SIDDONS ON BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3257, 9 December 1881, Page 4

MRS. SCOTT-SIDDONS ON BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

Mrs Scott-Siddons ha 3 been talking about beautiful women. American women, she considers, have far more beauty than English ; Boston and Philadelphia being especially favored spots for its growth. In America very young women are the most beautiful. It is in the first flush of girlhood that one sees the most handsome faces in the New World. The Canadian women have greater eleganco of manner than the British, who are stiff in society when young. Australian ladies are frequently pale and tall, freer in manner than the English, but. not so free as their American sisters—a happy medium. Mrs Siddons naively adds that beautiful faces are rare in England, and that is why such a fuss is made whenever one is found. She thinks that regularity of features is rather tiresome, and causes a lack of expression. ' Miss Neilson,' she says, ' had not a satisfactory face. Mrs Langtry is one of our irregular-fea-tured beauties, and, as usual with them, she has a great deal of expression, and a most mobile countenance, which with blue eyes, gives her a most ingenuous expression. Of handsome women that I have seen, by far the lovliest is the countess of Lonsdale. She is queen-like in her style, possesses symmetry of form, and has regular features, yet rot stony. The Princess of Wales is exceedingly like her pictures, and is wonderfully young-lookmg. She is a little deaf, and her mobility in trying to catch everything makes her interesting. There is a charming complaisance about her.' Being beautiful may not, perhaps, make one a judge of beauty, but Mrs. Scott-Siddons's varied experience in all parts of the world would give her every idea of what a beautiful woman is. As to Mrs Siddons herself, opinions may differ as to whether she is beautiful or not, but everyone will admit that she is decidedly prepossessing as well as graceful, and one of the most lady-like exponents of the drama that ever visited these colonies.