The Canadian Type of Beauty and How the Girls Dress.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 240, 6 September 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Canadian Type of Beauty and How the Girls Dress.

There are two aorta of beauty* as ; thjeqa-ifcei.,3 twb kinds of girls— the English-Canadian and the French- Canadian. .The English-Cana-dians are beautiful rather > than pretty. , j The ; s: French girls are captivatingly pretty. L00k,..} at the type of each : The English girl is tall' ' and strongly built. She walks, with her figure rigidly erect and her ..head held, ap, „[ from consciousness of strength rather than from pride. Her cheeks are like the sides of a peach that has just began to ripen. . > The:rose blush blends with the pink, that is' in' r turn lost m the general creamy tint 'oi the"! whole iace. Waves of flaxen or dark brown hair curtain her forehead, or perhaps her h'aiir is puffed into a*cloud : that projects 'beyond ;•-' her sealskin cap.: She Has-; big,', deep-bide ii> eyes, eloquent qf good health and good nature, and blazing- at a touch of excitement: Being' an athlete, she is a model ■ of/ (good --' health and the equal of her brothfers/at' 'the.' j dinner table. Her nose and mouth are not. too faskionably small. They match her fine ' stature, and the healthy, graceful carriage ,*- --that tell of stout limbs and developed' 'mus-' cles. What a lesson the Montreal, girl teaches to the Hew York mothers who' bring their daughters up indoors, like hot boose ;J plants, for fear they will not be lady-like ands 1: womanly 1 These robust girls, m, modesty,; << :• m grace, m softness of speech and femininity .., generally, are the peers of the daughters of ' Murray. Hill, and yet; there is hardly one that cannot stand by her brother's side inwhaij- ,., ever sport he is enjoying. These girls' can' " ( \ climb a mountain like deer ; they can' skate'; like ths women of Holland; they are ': at home on snow shoes ; the mad;Bport ; pf .the i r toboggan hills is every day fun to them. As these words: are written, they- are- scudding on snow shoes on the hill, applauding the ■_• curriers m the government sheds . driving, ,', their ponies at a three minute gait ahead fit their sleighs, skimming breathlessly down the'. > slides, cutting threes and eights m the skating ;i; rink, and bustling along the streets at a gait --u J that makes a New York man feel as though he was taking root m the snow.' : \ >il ' ; ' iJ The Canadian girls walk very beautifully, > ,' and the impression pf stiffness and unap- ...,7 proachableness that they give to a stranger belies their natures. The yodng men 'say . . >- that they thaw right out m the sbaeiy'of il any man that pleases them, and are aaiardent ; ■- m affection as they are enthusiastic m spoft.,/!: The sport they like best is tobogganing. A toboggan is nothing but a thin,: flat' board', curved up m front, and provided with handles. VI at the sides. ; The young men build slides ,on, , ( , the snow down the mountain side, cpat'ihem '', with ice, and then ride the girls down 'them ' for hours at a time; One yoiith said to-day - ' that having to drag a forty-pound toboggan: •-. up the mountain, hour after hour, was what drives the men to -drink. Upon the, top off the slidej which is decked at the sides- by. . evergreens and lighted at night with' torches stuck m the '■ snow, the girl gets on to' 'the ' /i : toboggan, stows her legs under the roll: of the!' > board ahead, grasps the side handles, andholds her breath. The young hian gets 6ti behind on one haunch, with his 'right leg' I free, to stew with. He edges thei.sle^dex-.i'^ board to the edge of the precipitous alley of ice and gives a strong kick, and down they g6like a shot from a gun. There is a second's. ,1 pause, then a whirl and a roar, and a.minute „. of bated ' breathing as the slender sled shoots -'^ m its groove of ice between the black lines csf ' "' spectators. It is a, dangerous sport,, but; there is a secret about it. , A ride on a to-' „ boggan is like a galvanic shook. The Motion :l of the rapid motion on the thin board over! ■ <■" the rough ice electrifies and thrills ; the. rider. I Every, nerve tingles, and every muscle be-.,, c comes rigid. Though it lasts but 'a few seconds they are seconds of strained enjoy- '' ment.— : New, York Sun. ■ ■ .'. . „ ■■,-,■,■. ;