| OCR Text |
Show THE DUBLIN BELLES. 1 A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun wrilee: A Dublin bel.e ia aa much unlike any other belle as a Dublin dandy is aui generis. Very, very few j of these dear, delightful belles are . over seen in America, aud more'a the pity. She h olten remarkably pretty, and always so in perlneea in a paradise para-dise sense. The beauty of tho Dublin nirl "in society" is very charming. charm-ing. As a rule they are lithe aud somewhat long, for a "dumpy woman" in Dublin is aa much baled by all men aa ever Byron could desire. de-sire. I do not tbiuk in the entire population of fashionable people in thia city there ia euch a thing as a dumpy old maid. 1 adopt the style of the belles here when 1 say bucu a thing, aud make- tho statement in the same authority. Tbe last "dumpy old maid" left hero in lli'io for Nantucket Nan-tucket in a sailing packet, and ia Btill on her way, for all I know. Hence "the girls" and they are all so called . like the "post boys" though their ages of girlhood and youth have long pussed beyond "Tbe Groves of Blarney" Blar-ney" the girls, I say, are nearly all tali and straight, like Lady Jane, who ' was "long and lane." Every one of them haa a Lesbia's beaming eye, "but at whom it aimeth no one dreametb." These girls talk with their eyes, flirt with their eyes, aay' unutterable things with ihfir eyes, and, slay like unspeakable Turks with their I eyes. Their voices are charmingly! sweet, soil aud low-toned. Their ' words aro of the sort that not only , breathe, but, burn- when the time comes. Tne Irish lady is unsurpassed j by the French ono in the art of con-, v'ere ation aud unequalled by the ! Eclish or American. Au Irish girl of the world and by no means let mo imply woildly can say more "soil nothings" and leave an CDchacticg impression that1 "etroLg feometfiings" were meant than any girl ou North Charles street. There is an inductive process in the parleying ol the Dublin belle that is susceptible of doing what Paddy's gun had the unique ability of accomplishing. accom-plishing. Her jokcB shoot around one corner juft in time to meat her path'. s coming round tho other, and then occura such an amazing and charming coucussion that you are like tho man with "Hohjon's choico." Her direct sallies of wit and bon mots, her By mpathetii! circles, likn the "First Book of Euclid," with all tlie ancleB thrown out, nut only interest but charm your alien t ion. I am sure Venus wis from Dublin, and I know Adonis never snw Cork. The beauty ol perBon, brilliancy of braiu, aud that graceful "thou art so near and yet 80 far" familiarity peculiar to Ihe Irish lady, are to be heen to be admired; to be faiutly imitated, but rarely acquired by any other woman ou any aide of "Mason and Dixon's lino." I repeat, we rarely see thia belle in America, and I also repeat moru's tho pity. |
