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Show RACE CHANGES. That Mr. Howells la kind to the persons per-sons and dresses of English women marks a grateful change In him or in them? In a former book he dedicated to the English girl a phrase which used by a known lover of the slender and delicate had an unavowed cruelty. The daughters of traveling Englishmen, he said, had honest cabbage roses in their cheeks and their hair tumbled upon their broad backs. Elsewhere he claimed sllmness as the divine prerogative preroga-tive of the American woman. The races change. American women have beautiful beau-tiful figures, with peculiarly broad hips, restoring the . Greek Ideal; England -owns th slenderest women . in the world, and English women dress as well or aa 111 as the French. London Chronicle. |