Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1883 — Men and Women of New York. [ARTICLE]

Men and Women of New York.

The women of New York are not beautiful. Many of them are redeemed by their style, but their pale, sallow faces and defective figures forbid any idea of beauty—that is, of the perfect and peerless beauty of feature and color which is a rarity everywhere, but should not be among such numbers as one meets on Fifth avenue. In point of fact, it is astonishing how rare a thing true beauty is. I saw flocks of pretty girls —beaute du (liable —in the Music Hall at Cincinnati; and a sprinkling of pretty girls in every city, for that matter ; but not beautiful women. Beautiful—that is, peerless and unquestioned, like Adelaide Neilson or Alice Dunning. I was prepared to see whole flocks of

them on Fifth avenue, but I was obliged to take style instead, and style will outrank beauty in New York unless they go hand in hand. I have seen three really handsome men—one in Kentucky, one in Boston, and one in New York. But any New Yorker of tolerable figure and with a fair credit*at his tailor’s and hatter’s — the hat is perhaps the distinguishing feature of the tout ensemble —may present a sufficiently stunning appearance to guarantee his afternoon promenade on the avenue. They are a comfortable, well-groomed looking lot of men, and look as if they found life a very endurable affair. — Cor. San Francisco Argonaut