Show TWO VIEWS OP A PRETTY GIRL A prelty American girl who is now allowing tIme light of her countenance lo shlno through the fogs of London has thrown time great artists of England Into convulsions of admiration She Is Cods masterpiece says Sir Edward Poynter president of the royal academy Her Countrymen says EllIs Roberts greatest of English portrait por-trait painters should have made her a goddess instead she looms upon us unknown like some ordinary woman How did she pass out of the harbor un seen1 The anser is plain America Is full of beautiful women To exalt Miss VanderblltAckermau I to Olympus would do injustice to countless other yiAing women whose beauty Is as ravishing rav-ishing and whose charms are at least as grcarns hers Because Miss Yandcr blltAckerman was born In a land where all women are beautiful the difference dif-ference among them being only one of I degree she simply shares with millions of her sisters In the admiration of her countrymen Without wishing to be ungallant It Is of course plain that for an exact opposite oppo-site reason she becomes as a visitor to England the unrivaled queen of beauty and time universay toast Beauty after all Is largely a mailer of contrast and comparison Before Sir Edward and fellows commit com-mit themselves absolutely to time deification deifi-cation of the New York beauty they arc Invited to visit this favored country and see for themselves the multitude uf women who deserve equal If not greater great-er honors Jn Chicago for Instance Miss VanderblltAckermau would be but one In the rosebud garden of girls In time Chicago constellation of womanly beauty she would bo by no means the brightest of the Mxed stars But there Is still another reason why Mlfs VaiidcrblltAekerman went to London without being heralded by a burst of trumpets Americans are not yet accustomed to making the beauty of their women the subject of public toasts nnd printed aulogles A pretty girl In this Country Instead of making a profound sensation as she does In England Is taken more ns a matter of course She Is lookod upon as an expected I ex-pected but none the less cherished blessing because beauty is the birthright birth-right of all American woman If the time should over come when tIm pretty girl of the United States demands de-mands public recognition of her charms orators win be obliged to confine themselves them-selves entirely to the subject In order to do It Justice and all other matter will be crowded out of the newspapers and magazines Chicago Tribune |