Show Max OEell on American Women That which struck me most in America Ameri-ca from firat to last is the total absence of 3tupid lOok ng faces All are not handsome but all are intelligent and beaming with activity In my opinion it is in this that American beauty mainly consists In the large cities of the Eastthe first thing that caught my attention was the thinness of the men Y and the plumpness of the women This t seemed to hint that the former lived in J a furnace of activity and the later in cotton wool This impression soon deepened into a conviction It seemed to me that her lot was as near to being perfection as an earthly lot could be A respect amounting to reverence is shown for her and it appears to be the chief aim of her protectors to surround her with luxury and make her path through life a sunny one So far as adding add-ing to her mental and physical graces goes this plan of making every woman I an uncrowned queen has answered completely Seeing her high position she has set herself to work to fill it becomingly I be-comingly and it is the cultivation of Americas daughters it is their charming charm-ing independence and a consciousness of their power that make them so attractive and render American society so delightful to the stranger In their treatment of women the Americans might give more than one lesson to the men of the Old World even to the Frenchman who in the matter of politeness lives a good deal I am afraid on the reputation of his ancestors an-cestors The respect for women in America seemed to me to be perfectly disinterested purely plato trio In France this respect almost always borders on gallantry A Frenchman will always stand back to let a woman pass but he will generally profit by the occasion to take a good look at her If an outsider be competent to forman form-an opinion I venture to say that the American woman does not render to a man a lithe of the devotion she receives from him The French wife repaya a husbands devotion by protecting his interestan American one too often repays it by breaking into his capital The January Forum 0 |