Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — THE PERFECT WOMAN. [ARTICLE]

THE PERFECT WOMAN.

A Story of How That Event Was Realized. In a book by Leon Gazlin, the French author, is the following pretty account of the distribution of the charms of the female sex by a fairy: “To the Castillian, long and black hair, with which she might almost make a mantilla. ■‘To the Italian, eyes bright and ardent as a midnight eruption of Vesuvius. “To the Turk, a form as round as the moon and soft as eiderdown. “To the German, beautiful teotli and an earnest heart, profoundly inclined to love. “To the English, aurora borealis to glorify or paint her cheeks, her lips and her shoulders. “Afterward she gave gayety to the Neapolitan, wit to the Irish, good sense to the Fleming.

“But when this good fairy, who had served out all these female attractions to the daughters ot Eve, had exhausted all her treasures, an attractive little figure came tripping up and asked for her share. ‘And who are you, dear?’ said the good fairy, rather surprised. ‘O, I’m a Parisienne,’ said the little lady. ‘l’m sorry.’said the fairy, ‘but I have given everything to your sisters; I have actually nothing left.’ This caused great grief to the petitioner, so much so that the fairy took pity on her, and calling the other recipients of her bounty togotlier, put it to them whether, as she had been so generous to them, they would not give a portion of her gifts to the little stranger, which they agreed to do. They each gave her a share of the fairy's gifts; hence the Parisienne, who, we are told, combines in a sufficient degree all that makes womankind delightful. “The American was not present when these good things were being served out, for the very good reason that in that good fairy’s time she hadn’t been invented yet; but she was equal to the occasion. She had no idea of being left out in the cold. Like those fine old Milesian families who had a boat of their own at the flood, she got a fairy of her own, and told her to take the Parisienne for a model, and see if she could not improve upon her.. Hence the Americaine. Whether the American fairy was successful in fulfilling the instructions of her fair client I must leave to better judges to decide; but there is no doubt that original and copy are very nice.”