MRS SCOTT-SIDDONS ON BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6501, 28 December 1881, Page 5

MRS SCOTT-SIDDONS ON BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

Mrs Scott-Siddons has been talking about beautiful women. American women, she considers, have far more beauty than English ( Boston and Philadelphia being especially favoured spots for its growth. In America very young women are the most beautiful. It is in the first flush of girlhood that one so-* the most handsome faces in the New World, The Canadian women have greater elegance of manner than the British, who are stiff in society when young. Australian ladies are frequently pale and tall, freer in manner than the English, but not so free as their American sisters—a happy medium. Mrs Siddoos naively adds that beautiful face* are rare in England, and that is why such a fuss is made whenever one is found, bho think* that regularity of features is rather tiresome, and (bows a lack of expression. “Mis* Neilsoo,” she says, " has not a satisfactory face. Mr* Langtry is one of your irregularfeatured beauties, and, as usual with them, she bae a great deal of expression. Of handsome women that 1 have seen, by far the loveliest is the Countess of Lonsdale. She is queen-like in her style, possesses symmetry of form, and hae regular features, yet not stony. The Princess of Wales is exceedingly like her pictures, and is young looking She is a little deaf, and her mobility in trying to catch everything makes her interesting. There is a charming complaisance about her.” Being beautiful may not, perhaps, make one a judge of beauty, but Mr* Scott-Siddons’ varied exEerience in all parts of the world would give er every idea of what beauty in women i*. “ As to Mrs Siddons herself,” sajs the Dunedin Star, " opinions may differ as to whether ■he is beautiful or sot, but everyone will admit that she Is decidedly prepossessing as well as graceful, and one of the most ladylike exponents of the drama that ever visited these Colonies”—an opinion in which we undoubtedly coincide.