Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1880 — American and Canadian Women. [ARTICLE]

American and Canadian Women.

There is as great a difference between the American women and the Canadian women as between the men. American women who have not to work for their living, object to any sort of exercise, except, perhaps, dancing; they neither walk nor ride; they go by rail, or drive in carriages; they object even to the work of looking after and superintending h house, and on that account prefer to live in hotels; those who are obliged to work for a living do so as teachers, clerks in postoffices, in shops, in any way, in fact, Where physical exertion can be dispensed with. American women have perfectly regular, though rather sharp features, anebwhen young are undoubtedly pretty; the bloom, however, rapidly fades away, and they are old women at thirty; they have but one, or at most, two children. The Canadian woman is a marked contrast She is in appearance quite an English woman—generally a blond. Canadian ladies are full as much addicted to out-door pursuits and amusements as the English ladies. Even in the depth of winter they have their daily walks, or their snow-shoeing, trabagganing or skating parties. Thanks to this more healthy mode of life, to their robust constitutions and to their healthy climate, they preserve their good looks to the last. As to the poorer women in Canada, they have do Chinamen, Irishmen and negroes to work for them, and so they are compelled to attend to their own households and dairies, and this seems to agree well with them. -Unlike the Americans, there seems to be no limit to their families and no end to their good looks, and middle aged Canadian women —if such an expression can be applied to the fair sex—present as great a contrast to the worn out and faded American women of n similar unmentionable age as can possibly be imagined. Ladies are like violets; the more modest and retiring they appear, the more you love them.