Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 July 1870 — Page 3

A MEIUC'A N WOMEN AND ENGtLISII WOMEN. Justin McCarthy, in an exceedingly readable article in the Galaxy for July, ujxm this subject, says:

Tt seems almost superfluous to speak of the beauty of American women. Even the most prejudiced and illiberal of European observers have done willing justice to this and indeed one .should have no eyes at all if he failed to notice the extraordinary number of pretty faces which pass' him in the stream that floats down Broadway any tine afternoon. But the peculiarity which first impressed me in the American woman was her fluency and selfreliance in speech. Perfectly astonishing to me at least was, and still is, the command of words and sentences which almost every American girl one meets always seems to have. I do not know how I can better express my sense of this wonderful gilt of tongue than by saying that an American woman appears to me always capable of managing a parenthesis anywhere with perfect accuracy, dropping the parenthetical passage and taking up the original thread of the sentence exactly at the right word. New York society seems to abound with pretty little petticoatcd Gladstones. An English woman of even more than average culture, when engaged in ordinary conversation, does not give herself much trouble about the finishing of a sentence. When she has gone deeply enough into it to enable her listener to gel the idea she means to convey, she is onlv too ready to drop that sentence there" mid-way", and begin another. This is the kind of way in which all Thackeray's Heroines talk, and all Charles Keade's and Anthony Trollopc's and it is perfectly right that they should be made to talk so, for so Kuglish women talk in real life. Hut any one who should write a novel in which there appeared some American women, and make them talk in the .same kind of stammering, incoherent way, would commit as great a blunder as if lit were to make a Devonshire lass speak with the accent of Highland Marv. Most American women whom 1 have

met

talk habitually with an

accuracy which woidd bear ot litc.'al reporting, the language reading like a page copied out ol a book, while at the same time there is a fluency which never pauses for a word, and never seems to know the slightest difficulty in expressing an idea. Nor is this merely an empty lluency, a shining, shallow river nor is it a pretty chatter, pleasant and marvellous, like that of an average l'ari.sirinic. A French woman who is not exceptionally educated is generally an ignorant creature an American girl has almost always a considerable stock of knowledge. Ameri-'-an girls especially differ from English girls in their superior acquaintance vvil politics and political life. Nothing surprised ni(! more in this country than the good general knowledge of, and general interest in, the politics of at least her own country which the voting American woman possesses. 'I'licre is in Kngfcand, and more especially in London, a considerable number of women who take a lively interest in polities, and understand every political question as well as men can do. lint these are almost invariably women who are brought into something like direct connection with political life, the wives and daughters of peers, members of Parliament, journalists, and others to whom Westminster l'aluce, where Parliament meets, is the Alcyone or central sun of the social system. The average Knglish women who does not belong to any of the groups I have indicated, seldom kno.ws or cares anything about the politics of hel\ our, or any other country, it would bo quite possible to dine every day at some table where there might be lia'lf a dozen English women of good social position, and supposed to be educated, not tine of whom hatl the faintest idea of what the Kuglish system of government is, or hatl ever thought about the matter at all. 1 wonder where you could find half a dozen American women of decent education, who do not know whether General Grant has or has not the power of making any laws he pleases. Not merely is the average English woman ignorant of politics, but she does not even know enough to know how ignorant she is she has jjrobably never given one moment's consideration to a subject which she assumes to be utterly beside her sphere and beyond her comprehension. Here in tho United States girls who do not seem to have long passed the age of pant a let es, commonly aina/.ethe unaccustomed foreigner by plunging at once into some complicated political question, and talking of it with perfect fluency and with a knowledge that seems to be genuine. Nor is tiiis true of political subjects merely. These voting American women seem to havetlie faculty of grappling readily with the most diPicult tonics. I have heard American girls talk about Ib rbert Spencer in a manner which not only convinced me that they hail read him, but even satisfied me that they had actually understood him as well. I have never heard better appreciation tf Nome of our greatest living English authors than 1 have listened tt) from the lips of animated, fluent young American women, who it they were .English would hardly talk in coinpany ut all, or il'they did talk would scarcely venture beyond the commonplaces and small change of conversation. All this, too, without any appearance of the old ishioned blue-stocking pcculiaritie /n the part ofthe American ladies it /eeins quite fresh, natural, ami /manly. The knowledge of literature

/ssessed by American girls does not, however, seem to me relatively so great by any means as their knowledge of politics. .My impression is that a weli-edue.ited EngUsh woman has generally a wider acquaintance with literature than her American sister. 1 tit) not find, for example, that the great classic masters of our language, in prose or poetry, are very familiar to the tripping tongue ofthe bright American girl who can talk polities with a professional journalist, ami knows Victor Hugo, and George Sand, and

description of Western mountain scenery wliicl^reminded me of nothing in the World so much as of certain long, eloquent, glowing prose dithyrambics in the Noctes Ambrosianse, or perhaps of some of Bulwer-Lytton's heroines in a vein of special eloquence. But then, Christopher North in tho "Noctes" or the heroine of Bulwer's novel had the thing elaborately prepared and written out for him "or her by the author, who doubtless went over it many times in manuscript, and made various emendations iii proof, hefore he allowed the outburst of unstudied eloquence to flow forth while these American ladies of whom I

AMltlil

Xfl

speak

had absolutely no idea, one moment before, that the conversation was

through

AM)

started which would give their power of extemporaneous description a chance of displaying itself.

SHORTNESS OF TIME IN DHEAMS.— One of the most remarkable phenomena connected with dreams is the shortness of time needed for their consummation. Lord Brougham says that in dictating a man may frequently fall asleep after uttering a few words, and be awakened by the amanuensis repeating the last word to show that he lias written the whole but though four or fivt§ seconds only have elapsed between the delivery of the sentence and its transfer to paper, the sleeper may have passed

a dream extend

ing through half a lifetime. Lord Holland and Mr. Babbage both confirm this theory. The one was listening to a friend reading aloud, and slept from the beginning of the sentence to the latter part of the sentence immediately succeeding yet during this time lie 'had' hatl a dream, the particulars of which would have taken more than a quarter of an hour to write. Mr. Babbage dreamt a succession el'events, and woke in time to hear the concluding words of a friend's answer to a question he had just put to him. One man was liable to feelings of suffocation, accompanied by a dream of a skeleton grasping his throat whenever he slept in a lying posture, and had an attendant to wake him the moment he sunk down. But, though awakened the moment he began to sink, that time sufficed for a long struggle with the skeleton. Another man dreamt that he crossed the Atlantic, spent a fortnight in America, and fell overboard when embarking to return yet his sleep hatl not lasted more than ten minutes.

KKOM English journals wo learn that .the committee appointed by the Convocation for the revision ofthe authorized version of the Bible has held its lirst meeting, and agreed upon its plan of operation. The committes is to separate itself into two companies, the one for'the revision of the Old Testament, and the other for that of the New. It has extensively availed itself of its authority tt) invite the co-operation of any persons eminent for scholarship, tt whatever nation or religious hotly they may belong. As a general principle'to be" followed by both companies, it has been resolved to introduce as few alterations as possible into the text of the authorized version consistently with faithfulness, and to limit, as far as possible, the expression of such alterations tt) the language of the authorized and earlier English versions. Each company is to make two revisions of its text, the one provisional, and the other final. In the former, proposed changes in the text will be made on the approval of a majority of those present but no change "will" be retained at the final revision which is not sanctioned by a majority of two-thirds. Whenever lie text adopted by the committee differs from the authorized version, the alteration is to be indicated on the margin. The revision is to extend to the heading of chapters, pages, paragraphs, italics, and punctuation, and application is tt) be made by each company, when considered desirable, to divines, scholars, and literary men, at home and abroad, for their opinions

M.VrftlMOXY.— A

ST it A NOK HISTOUY.—Tho second Duke of Richmond, who was grajidson of Charles II, married Lady Sarah Cadopui, daughter of Marlborough's favorite general. The union was a bargain to cancel a gambling debt- between the parents, and the young Lord March was brought from college, and the lady from (he nursery, lor the ceremony. The bride was amazed and silent, but the bridegroom exclaimed—''Surely you are not going to marry me to that dawtly." Married he was, however, and his tutor instantly carried him oil' to tilt? Continent. Lady Sarah went back to her mother, a daughter of Wilhelni Munter, States Councillor of Holland. Three years afterwards Lord .March returned from his travels an accomplished gentleman, but having such a disagreeable recollection of his wife that lit1 avoided home, ami repaired the first night of his arrival to the theatre. There he saw a lady of so fine an appearance that he asked who she was, and received for reply—"The reigning toast, the beautiful Lady March." He hastened to claim her, and they lived together so affectionately that one year after his decease, in 17")0, she dietl of grief. Her daughter, also named Sarah, was likewise beautiful, and when scarcely eighteen, George III. otic red her his hand. She refused he persisted, and was finally accepted, partly because of his apparently sincere passion, partly from the influence of her brother-in-law, the lirst Lord Holland but then politicians worked on Royal pride, hurt by the lirst refusal, and the monarch' fell back. The second Ladv Sarah mentioned in the above extract was the mother of the subject of this biography.—Sir IT. Napier's Life m,I Opinions- 'of his flrnt/,cr.

ECONOMY KOU LADIES.—Notions Of economy are sadly out of fashion with those who write about the fashions but delightful exception to the

hero rule So littie marked and various is the •tor prevailing mode, that ladies who have Robert kept their dresses of last summer may

Itrowning, and Tennyson, and Carlvlo, without ^attracting notice, wear them uid perhaps even (toothe and Heine, as well as a professional critic. 1 do not think she is likely to know a great deal flxnit Milton, or Kdmtind Spenser, or

again this. Happy the

man who, free from care

Hndcth his wife content to wear the dresses she last season bought, and

Fielding, or even Shakespeare himself, this year troubleth him for''naught' except from the acquaintanceship May she 1k happy in her old clothes] formed through the medium of Edwin for they are far cheaior than new I Rooth. Hut it is certain that whatever What a darling thick a wife must be, she knows, and whatever she sees, the who can live for some six months or so

Vnierican women can talk alxnit. She without dipping her bill for drapery an even describe—describe places she into her poor husband's pocket! Such has scon so that she makes you think little ducks will, when they nioult von art1seeing them too describe them their tine feathers of the summer, put in long, flowing, pictorial sentences 11hem carefully uwav to be ready for •which, although running on as if tho next year. If they be no little geese sneaker took no time even to think they will never fear the danger of atlabout their arrangement, yet come out lear and accurate to the very end, each art of the sentence dovetailing proudly with the other, ami the verb inariably agreeing with its nominative ase in number ami person. 1 have sat nd listened, a wonder-wounded earer, while an American lady jHuired ut, quite extemporaneously and on spur of .sonic chance suggestion, a

tractmg foolish notice by the fact that their plumage is a little out of fashion,

for this to any man of sense who Kajv JH'HS to observe it will simply

L»e

she

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proof of the admirable prudence "wherewith it has been kept.

Queen Victoria pays liberal pensions to seventeen old servants ef Prince Albert in Uermanv.

TF.PBF-TTATJTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT. JULY 9. 1870.

LITTLE JEMMY,

We find tho folowing among the "selected" matter in a Western daily paper and print it as we find it, though £o'would bo glad give credit for so good a thing: y"And there's Jemmy, little topknotted, green-coated canary of live months, that sits in his cage, crumbles his cracker, notches his fresh lettuce, cracks his canary seed, makes his toilet, and ogles the yellow birds that ride around his prison on the swells of the air. A whilo ago Jemmy was slightly depressed, and 'for cause,' as will be seen. Relying too much on the twist in the conjugal tie, Lucy suffered Jemmy's wife, Nelly, to fly out on a lilac tree in front of the house, supposing, of course,

would fly

lck

"II V1C

wings of love but the swaying boughs, the free air, and, I sadly fear, the blandishments of some unprincipled Lothario of a goldfinch, were too much for poor Nelly, and she never returned to her allegiance

Jemmy has kept

bachelor's hall ever since. 'Nellv was a ladv at least, so we all thought but the other day she made her appearance in a peach tree, right in sight of her lord and master decidedly the worst thing I kno\^ of her—accompanied by a suspicious-looking fellow in buff waistcoat and 'inexpressibles. We didn't much approve the twitterings and chirpings between them but Jemmy is a good deal of a philosopher so he turned about on his perch as nonchalant as a Regent street fVishionable. There was a little spelling in his throat, Was it it rising sigh? Nothing ofthe sort for he warbled a ditty—not of the strongest, we confess, but then musical, resigned, Jemmy-like—the burden ot which was, as nearly as I could^ make it out, something lilce this:

Not a—

whistle—for Nelly, Nell, Nelly give I not a—warble—a twitter—a quivercart I. This—crotchet—of Nelly's a— mil) i—to me.' The very day that Nel deserted Jemmy's perch and pick gs, a driving storm swept over the intry, and there was a sound of o-reat 1 indentation for Nelly but, alas! she v: left to a worse fate. There is no te'.i ng what coquettes, or canaries, or any of us may come to, if left to ourselves."

ENGLISH HA 121TS.

We find the following in "Guesses and Queries" of Lippincott's Magazine: I

AmoiV tho many absurd, there are some scnsVile customs in England that might bo.profitably introduced into our American Jife. An English servant neyer slams a door, but puts it to with the hand ipon it never throws the window up or down, but raises or lets it fall deliberately: never addresses you without bow or curtsy and never, or very rarely, becomes rude, no matter how great"the provocation. Again, no Englishman ever eats or drinks in a hurry. The tossing off the glass of spirits or pint of ale is an American innovation, as much as the bolting halfmasticated food. The plowman in his liodden frock and iron-shod brogans, requires liis time to sip his ale the wretches who flaunt their charms in the gaslight glare of the gin-palace, and drown their sorrows in its poisons, linger over the glass and the cabman, no matter how great your hurry, whose good-will you bribe by a pot of 'half-and-half,' stares as you hasten him to drink it at a gulp, and wonders at 'the manners of them furriners.'

AvionAOE ENGLISH IDEA OF FEMALE BEAUTY.—Reduced tri the plain expression of

Avhat

ifprsfpeafiy worth, the av

erage English iflea of beauty in women may be summed up in three words— youth, health, jlnmpness. The more spiritual charni of intelligence and vivacity, the subtler attraction of delicacy of line and fineness of detail, are little more looked for and seldom appreciated by the mass of men in this island. It is impossible otherwise to account for the extraordinary blindness of perception which (to give one instance only) makes nine Englishmen out of ten who visit France come back declaring that they have not seen a single pretty Frenchwoman, in or out of Paris, in tho whole country. Our popular typo of [beauty proclaims itself, in its fulleft material development at every shop in which an illustrated periodical. is sold. The same fleshy-faeecl girl, with the same insane smile, and with no other expression whatever, appears under evcrv form of illustration, week after week, and month after month all the year round. Those who wish to know what Mrs.

(ilenarni was like liave only to go out and stop at any bookseller's or newsvendor's shop and there they will see her in tho lirst illustration with a young woman in it Mfliich they discover in the window.—Ca$ScU\i Magazine

"THE counsel f'oi^L~pl iintitr," said a gay and festive attorney of the Superior Court, "has been Somewhat discursive in his remarks to you. He has alluded to almost everything in the pages of history, ancieiit and modern. He has socked with oldSocrates roamed Avitli old Romulus, ripped-with old Euripides, and canted with old Cantharitles. Hut, gentlemen of the jury what has that got to do with this erase' All his allegations are false and old alligator knows it liini'"' Mv client don't need anj* of this i| L001j at him gentlemen, ami I if

that he hasn't done the

von can

thing bv

the plaintitf! From his uth up he has been as you now find n:

children',

l)0es it ?or is it fubber—

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sure

it very tie jaw's its sake, a newsevery to read

IIAriPITY OJF FLIGHT.—Co*m9» gives us the following notions TYithJ^gard to the rapidity with which migrjlory birds fly: "Quails," says thafj4per "will accomplish 150 miles in

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