Mr. W. L. George, the English velist, remarks the "New York Times," could hardly have made a hit with his audience—his subject was "The American Woman'—when, confessing that he had been dazzled by feminine beauty in America, he had come to the conclusion that American women were more attractive than the fair ones of other countries—of England, for instance—because here the skill of the dressmaker adds artificial to natural charms. Mr. George may be suspected of a sly insinuation that English women are really the} most beautiful in the world to him. He admits that they are not as well "groomed" as their American sisters, and for that reason they suffer by comparison.
American women who have visited England will readily agree that its women do not know how to dress. The criticism usually made of them is that they are dowdy. Perhaps it can be claimed for English women that they generally have better complexions and voices that fall more softly upon the ear. Good looks are rarer among them than among the women of cities like New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and San Francisco: to put it in another way, the average of physical attrac. tiveness is higher among the Americans, and the cause of it may be found in the blending of the types
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