ENGLISH BEAUTY.

Northern Advocate, 22 August 1913, Page 3

ENGLISH BEAUTY.

The coincidence of Alexandra Day with M. Poincaire's triumphal progress to the city furnished the French visitors to London with a survey of the different types of English beauty as represented by the incredible number of pretty girls seiiing Queen Alexandra's roses along the route.

What they saw sounded the knell in many French minds of the stereotyped representation of the Englishwoman, beloved of the French comic press, as a gaunt, red-haired female with projecting teeth and immense feet. Many and enthusiastic were the comments of the French visitors on the exquisitely fresh complexions and graceful figures of the daintily clad women who had so prettily begged them to buy.

" No," said a French army captain resolutely at the Guildhall c'oak room, "I do not give up my rose. 1 shall keep it for the beautiful eyes of the lady who pinned it to my coat."

After a trip through London a French naval officer, who had come up to town from one of the warships escorting the President, voted the London girl in point of good looks to be the equal of any belle in his native Normandy.

" In France we have always given Englishwomen pride of place in the matter of complexion," a French visitor remarKed, " but I must admit being agreeably surprised at the chic of your Englishwomen of to-day. Perhaps they pay less' attention to smartness of line than do our welldressed Frenchwomen, but they have solved the problem of dressing becomingly and tastefully in hot weather, and, ma foi, their summer clothes most admirably suit their fragrant English beauty."