American and English Girls Compared.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 12

American and English Girls Compared.

" Carp,' the well-known correspondent of the Cleveland "Leader, ' maked the following coraparison between American and Europeci girls in one of his late letters from abroad : "A walk in tho afternoon in. the ehurmng parts of New York will show you mono eleyf\m,ly dressed women than a, whole Sunday in the Champa Elys^ce or Hyde l\aik, and t-oroe of oar servant girls on $3 a *"eek cut a better figure on Sundays than theli English and German sisters, whocome of larnihes well to do in the world. Speaking further of American girls versus European girls, the American girl^ee«msto be a sorr> of a cross between theErglish and. the French «iil She looka, on tho whole, better ihan eithoi, though she ha* not half the advantages of her .English sister in natural beauty of complexion or robustness of health. The American girl's complexion is too oftan sallow. She talk 3, as a rule, with a nac-al tvrangr, more or lees pronounccdj and is not afraid to say ■what she thinks. She Ure&aes, however, in exquisite tastOi Her colours do not blaspheme at one another, ond she wears her clothes so that tihe appeure to have as good a form am hei* Et'iglidli sister. She has infinitely more style, and she carries herself better, She. is betlar looking by far than the French^ girl, v,-ho, by tho way, iadark complexioned:, unhealthy looking, and in many cases weara a pair of moustaches which would delight* a boy of ninoteen. The French girl dresses well, but no better than the American. She is business lroui the word go, and it is her ccx who form the cashiers of nearly every shop, restaurant and hotel in Paris. The Atnerie«m girl needs only tho business train* ing to equal hor French sister in. this re« gard. The girls of Germany aro not, a8 a rule, well dressed. They look dowdy, and do not aeruple to drink several great mugs of beer at an evening out-of-door concert* Thoy lika cinaeso, and, like thoir much fairer English slaters, are by no means delicate eaters,"