BEAUTY OF GERMAN WOMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 4287, 22 November 1876, Page 4

BEAUTY OF GERMAN WOMEN.

The Cotratess Von Bothmer, in 'Fraser's Magazine,' says :—German girls are often charmingly pretty, with dazzling complexion, abundant, beautiful hair, and clear, lovely eyes, but the splendid matron, the sound, Wealthy, .well-developed woman, -who has lost no grain of beauty and gained a certain magnificent maturity,, such as we see daily with daughters, who, might well be her younger sisters, of such-women the; Fatherland has few specimens to 'show. The "' pale, unripened beauties of theNNort h do nqt ripen; they.; fade. "The style is the ..man," says Buffon • and what style is to literature, taste to dress, and refinement to manners, distinction is to beauty. There must be a certain line, certain proportion, a healthy development, a harmony, grace and strength, before we can a.ekn.owledge that a greater than ,the mere passing nprettiaess of youthj freshness and good looks is there. Polish, Hungaiitn; and Austrian whom; we, iti a generally conclusive way, are apt to clasß as Germans, are " beautiful exceedingly;" but here we come upon another race, or rather such a fusion o£ other races as may help to contribute to the charming result. Polish ladies have a special, vivid, delieate, spirited,, haunting loveliness, with grace, distinction", and elegance in their limbs and features that is'Sß their.'own ; yau cannot,,call them fragile/but they are of so fine a fibre and so delicate a coloring that they only just escape that appellation. Of Polish and Hungarian pur sang there is little to 'be., found; women of the latter race are ,p£ a more robust and substantial build, with dark hair and complexiony fine, flashing eyes, and pronounced type; and who that remembers the women of Linz and Vienna will refuse them a first prize? They possess> a special beauty of their own—a beauty which is r&re in even the loveliest English woman; are, indeed, and exceptional everywhere else, a beauty that the artist eye appreciates with a feeling delight. They have the most delicately articulated joints of any people in the world. The junction of the hand and wrist, of foot and ankle, of the neck with the back and shoulders, is what our neighbors would call "adorable." But alas .that it should be so; the full, gracious figure—types at once of strength and elegance—the supple, slender waists, the dainty little wrists and hands, become all too soon hopelessly fat from persistent idleness and luxury of the nerveless, unoccupied lives of these graceful ladies.