The Beautiful Women of Capri.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 76, 15 November 1884, Page 5

The Beautiful Women of Capri.

Th« Capri women are almost invariably handsome and healthy looking. In the course of half an hour's walk you will distinguish in the women and girls you meet pure specimens of Phoenician, Roman, Saracen, Spanish and Greek types, survivors of the successive conquerors of the island. But what strikes one most is the statuesque gracefulness of these girls in all their movements. However mean her occupation, whether it be carrying building stone or climbing a ladder with a pail of mortar on her head, the Capriote girl will always be graceful, and the lines of her body in motion will always call up reminiscences of Greek art.

Who are the people who purchase portraits of beauty actresses and male professional beauties that are offered for sale in every other shop window ? It is usual for schoolboys to fall in love with actresses, especially when the ladies are" elderly. It would not be pretty to speak of the age of any individual actress. Several of the most sprightly ladies of the stage, however, have been before the public fot something like twenty years. And if one goes to Eton or Marlborougk or Rugby, one conies aerops many youngsters who have large collections of photographs of those sprightly matrons. I understand that after the popular actresßes 1 photographs those of leading politicians are most in request.— " County Gentleman. ■"'