MRS. SCOTT-SIDDONS ON BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.
? Mrs. S'cott-Siddons has been talking about beautiful women. American women, she considers, have far more beauty than English ; Boston and Philadelphia being •specially favoured spots for its growth. In America very young women are the most beautiful. It is in the first flush of girlhood that one see the n.ost handsome faces in the New World. The Canadian women have greater elegance of manner than the British, who are stiff in society when young. Australian ladies aro frequently pale and tall, freer in manner than the English, but not so free as their American sisters — a happy medium. Mra. Siddons naively adds that beautiful faces are rare in England, and that is why suoh a fuss is made whenever one ia found, fehi thinks that regularity ef features is rather tiresome, and causes a lack of expression. "Miss Neilson," she says, " had not a satisfactory face. Mrs. Langbry ia one of our irregularfeatured beauties, and, as usual with th m, 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 fur the lovlieat ia the Countess of Lonsdale. She is queen-like in her style, possesses symmetry of form, and haa regular features, yet not Btony. The Princess of Wales is exceedingly like her pictures, and ia wondotfully young-looking. Sho is a little deaf, and her mobility in trying to catch everything makos 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. Aa to Mrs. Siddons herself, opiniona may differ as to whether she is beautiful or not, bnt everyone will admit that she iB decidedly prepossessing as well as graceful, and one of the most lady-like exponents of the drama that ever visited th'esa colonies.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 131, 3 December 1881, Page 4
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333MRS. SCOTT-SIDDONS ON BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 131, 3 December 1881, Page 4
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