THE AMERICAN WOMAN.
When Bjornstjerne was in America he said this of American women to his friend, Professor Boyssen : “ Beautiful ? Well, now, what constitutes beauty ? They have soft skin, well-eared-for persons, good clothes. But the soul —-the soul, my boy, that gazes out of this transparent covering is vain, flimsy, self-conscious, and filled with a thousand petty frivolities. Mere regularity of features count for little with me if there is no nobility of soul that shimmers through. The American women I have met have, with few exceptions, been of this type. They demand much of life, but they have no idea that life has the same right to demand something - of them. They are clover, with a sort of flimsy, superficial cleverness, and they know how to assert themselves and get the most out of their husbands and fathers. But they have been woefully spoiled. They can never get away from their own dear, little, pretty selves ; they cannot lose themselves in a great thought, a great idea, and learn the blessedness of living for something better than vanity' and flirtation, and social tittletattle.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 49, 3 March 1894, Page 4
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184THE AMERICAN WOMAN. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 49, 3 March 1894, Page 4
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