Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — English women. [ARTICLE]

English women.

“There are English ladies with all the accomplishments of aiiy of their sex,” writes Adam Badeau. “There are beauties that no other land can excel; or hardly rival; there are graces of manner that none can resist; women of wit, culture breeding, and conversational power, all combined, whose genius it is a delight to remember; whose fascinations it is wOTth while living to have experienced and enjoyed.s These are the very flower, not only of a class, but of a nation; the expression of what is choicest and rarest in a race and an institution. They made me think of those costly attars of the .Orient which require thousands of roses for the , distillation of a single drop j the . labor of the garden, the influence of the climate, the outcome of the soil, and the destruction of a myriad of flow cfs, all to

produce one exquisite result," which, after all, is for the delectation of only the wealthy and< fortunate of mankind.’’