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Show ' A Froiicliniaii's Opinion. This is what a Parisian Marquise writes of tho American girl: "It is her life before the public, begun at the earliest possible period at day school and in boarding houses, which bestows on her the free and easy manner man-ner which makes her remarked upon whenever she appears. As soon as she enters society she does exactly what comes into her head. She goes alone to tho doctor, the dentist, the music master, and enrolls herself in the lists of clubs for fencing, German, skating, reading, baso ball, singing, &o. She prefers tho society of men to that of women, &c." And this is what the American girl answers: "If she does all of which this writer has pronounced her guilty, it is because of her security from insult in thought or deed, in the true and never failing courtesies of the American man, who, unlike, the French critic, reverences womanhood itself more than the conventionality con-ventionality with which he would surround sur-round and guard it." The well-bred, well read, American lady, be she girl or woman, requires only tho protection which her own refinement re-finement and common sense provide from the men of her nation, and needs tho intervention of no chaperon to insure respectful demeanor. In fact, tho chaperon institution is considered by many cultured people an insult to the true womanhood of the American girl and to the honor of her fellow men. |