THE OREGOft SUNDAY JOURNAL. .PORTLAND, SUNDAY EORTUNG, fcrrTOBER If, 1903
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M$hM Maude. Allan. She has millionaire Buitor?,1 too. I V Vk, .. '.'ftf V ,f M I ' .
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' the foreign aectirtni, I ' find little' onei. wXt2i
fet royltj might enry, haod that prin
c rnijf Lt posnn8, and compleilona like that
of rose pet all. The daughter of your Italian, ,
Iluaalan or Irish immigrant will hud forth at
an Arorrican Dflle," x
A foreijfner who paid a iait to ,Tariou
" dtlM marked the pretaknee of .the American
, type a type hard to define, rague yet charm
ine, wonderful, enthrallinff. In Washing-ton, ha
declared," he noted the preralence of dark- ,,
haired, dark-eyed maidenhood. ,. ."
One of the handsome young- women whoaa '
photograph appeare herewith, typifiea the maid-
enhood of the capital. Slim, delicate, modeatly
dressed, what man would not fall a rictim to
Jboaa aof t, bewitohinff eyea f ,'. .
There ia aoinething- indefinably aweet in
llisa Waahinirton'a expreasion. Alaa! it ia
' Jiopeleea to trr to catch ao elusire a thing; but '
It ia one of the traita of . mcrican beauty.
A ioaoiDff aocieiy matron in UaJtimore ia
regarded aa typifying the beautT of that city. I
Uer ezpreaaion ia pacioua; in her eyea thero .'
is the light of tender motherhood; , her faoe ia
.'alight with bappineaa. geniality, good nature. -
It ia the, face of a noble woman matured in ita
beauty. '. ;
. Miaa Pittaburg, howerer, may be alightly.
aucy. Her' retrousse nose indicatea that. Her ..
gift of .repartee ' ia-aaid to be remarkable;
words bubble j'ewel-likofrom her lips.'' Virao
ity-is the spirit of her. ' Tier lips ah, must she '
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hit of the musical comedies last season. Noted
for her beauty and her ability, Beulah is, on the
road to become another Isadora Duncan or
Maude, Allan. She has millionaire BuitorS,' too.
Margueritte Martini," the petite, golden
haired, blue-eyed daughter of Filomena, at 12
bids fair, to become one of the greatest beauties
and singers of her colony.
Tilly Hartmann is now going to school.
She has her mother's rosy cheeks, her reddish y
gold hair, but Tilly at 10 wears it in a pom
padour, daintily plaited down the back. All
predict that Tilly will become a striking
beauty.
in one of the splendid cafes
i j f Paris some time since a world
famed artist leaned over to his
friend. Pointing to one woman he said:
f "Russian, undoubtedly Russian; there,
German, distinctly German; yonder, beauty
from Madrid; and' here, there, every-
tvhere, the beauty of Paris.
' "But, look sitting in the alcove,
more beautiful than all, the lady of the
. Stars and Stripes.'
He was right. He had designated the
: nationality of each one. But what dis
tinguished the American woman from the
others?
Not long since a widely known artist
of New York returned to this country after
having traveled, virtually, around the
globe in search of a perfectly beautiful
' woman to serve as a model for a Venus.
As a result of her journey and quest,
she brought back the conclusion that the
types nearest perfect of feminine beauty
are to be found in America; that women
of this country hold the palm for real at
tractiveness of face and form.
AXUMBEB of years ago Maggie Mc
Carthy came to this country. She was
a splendid type of the physical devel
opment of the Emerald Isle; she was
whole-souled and happy and a blessing to all
who enjoyed her helpful friendship. Yet, ac
cording to present-day standards, Maggie could
scarcely have been called beautiful
Nor could Bachel Bolinski, brought over
about the same time by her father fm the
land of the ctars. While Kachel was fresh of
faoe, her features were too large, her hair
black and atringy, her eyes of the piercing,
aearching sort. She butchered English fright
fully during ber first two yeara in schooL
Later she made $2 a week sewing trousers in
a cellar, but in after years attained a much
lugner station and enjoyed a fair share of
worlily goods. . X '
liteen years ago Filomena Baldl, with
worldly possession in a handkerchief, land
ed at ul 1jldL - Filomena was stout and
a brunetta. She began her carter in the land
cf tnJDr and honey by washing dishes in the
Cafe Coma, later marrying the proprietor, whd
ia time cam to own a large part cf a city
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not be the despair of the steel andal kings,
this bewitching American girl I
. When the Frenchman avers that the women
of his country are more beautiful, when tha
Englishman tells of the supreme beauty of his
daughters, or the people of the north point to
the fair women of Sweden as personifying the
most perfect loveliness in the world well, we
can just compare our beauties with theirs. It's
American that's alL
Beautiful, indeed, is the prize-winning
maiden of Great Britain, with her lofty, spiri
tuelle gaze, her soft complexion and slender
neck. Beautiful enough to rend the hearts of
a thousand troubadours is Senora Carmen, of
Madrid. Her eyes are as black as night, her
hair raven-hued. ,
But do these women, regarded as perfect
types of their country's most beautifuL woman
hood, surpass the trinity of American women
shown here! .
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Not many years later Gretchen Schlegel
milch hailed from some "hauscn" in the Fath
erland and got a job washing dishes. Gretchen
was rosy, plump, bright-eyed. She married
also. Her husband, Fritx Hartmann kept a
saloon. Gretchen helped wait at the bar, dis
pensing "suds" and smiles, and meanwhile the
bank account grew. A
Maggie McCarthy, Bachel Bolinski, Filo
mena Baldi and Gretchen Schlegelmilch, having
married and waxed prosperoua, sent their sons
and daughters, aa they grew old enough, to
schooL and, in some cases, to college. Possibly,
yon hare met Miss Nora McFadden, Maggie's
18-year-old daughter blue-eyed, ethereal aa an
elf, with a voice like a silver belL .who wears
her hair in a pompadour and loops for a
sheath skirt- Accomplished f Wliy, she playa
the piano, eings soprano and psirts china.
Tn may hare beard cf Beulah Silver
JV0 made her debut aa the understudy
a "Ha Merry .Woot of Wooroiand." tha great .
bnra BeautT. chaAn of manner and a spright-;.
ys, vivacioua spirit of independence mark them. '
. Be turning from her tour of the world, the
celebrated woman sculptor-artist mentioned
, above declared that she had found no women
to compare with those of America in beauty.; ;
She studied the -women,' of Spain, whose
dark-eyes and coquetry have driven the dona ;
mad for centuries; she dwelt upon the women j
of England, of trance, of Kussia, ol Miouana,
Now, were you to take these fair young
women to determine their style of "beauty you'd
say, no doubt, that American characteristics
predominate, despite the marks of-nationality .of Sweden; in South Africa she studied the
mat yet remain. Une generation nas cnangea
them largely.. What. is itf- The, climate, say
some.' The environment, declare others. The
coarser metal of womanhood which cam from
plowing fields in Bussia or Germany has be
come golden maidenhood, that sings, '.paints, '
dances and learns all the arts and accomplish. :
ments that serve to make woman 'attractive."
types. But when she returned to Una country
she declared: - X - C
, I give the palm to the American, women.
Tney more nearly approach the 'Greek idea of
beauty than the women of ' any other nation.
Among our children I find superlative beauty.
"Children of foreian carents become Amer
icanized, tbey lose the native national traits,
But if every foreign mother's daughter beX and bud like new world flowers. ,In Calif or-
comes alchemized in our national cruci&ie el - ma 1 think we find tb most ioveiy specimena.
beauty, more typical, indeed, are the American
women of older families, the daughters of Co-
lonial ancestors, who have lived in this coun
try for years.
In every city you find 'them fairest tyre
of American womanhood. Tha Girl of the
Golden Wt is little different from the Girl
f the White Way. The demure dim of Fouth'
Carolina differs litUa roaa tha belof Titta-
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"If th women of America Dermitted them
selves to do so, they might attain the standard
of Greek perfection. But they are going" in too
much for athletics; they ara becoming over
developed, and too much muscle will destroy
'the beauty of tha . aboulJer, which become
equar--, and the face, which becomes hard.
Tb ideal Terns exisU in America, bow
tret. There ara almost perfect women. In
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