Why the American Girl Marries.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 344, 20 February 1889, Page 3

Why the American Girl Marries.

Several newspapers have taken advantage of the marriage of the "Duke of Marlborough to Mrs Hamersley to call attention to the way in which American girls are cutting out Englishgirls in the matrimonial market, and have suggested many causes tor this. We should say bhab the main reason is that the American girl is not so missy as her English sister, and that she is brought up to run down her own game. In England, the notion still prevails that a girl is sure to get into mischief if she has not a mother or something of that sort at her elbows. She herself resents this, and takes it out in fast conversation and slangy ways, so that she becomes a singular mixture of a doll and tomboy. Her small talk is the very smallest of small talk. Her mother is always by her, with palpable suggestions of marriage, which frighten off all suitors. The girl dresses badly, generally with meretricious gaud ; she does not give her natural advantages a fair chance ; at one moment she appears in the hideous garments of the aesthete ; at another she is arrayed in a mannish tennis costume with a rackeb in her hand ; at another in the white and limp mualin of innocence. There is always an air of effort in her get-up, and of effort which is a failure. Now, the American girl has natural taste ; her clothes seem to belong to her, and whatever she may wear, it is put on to the best advantage ; she knows how to talk agreeably, and, being always quite at her ease, puts all those with whom she is thrown at their ease. - The day of the bread-and-butter tomboy is over. English girls must realise this if they want t6 get married.

Among the members already elected to bhe New South Wales Parliament are two prominent cyclists, or rather prominent men associated with VVheeldom, viz. : Mr James < Martin, President of the Cyclists' .Union ,(who has been elected for South Sydney)i and, Mr Alfred Allen, one of the VicerPresidents of <th,e Cyclists' Union (who ha* been re-elected for Paddington). <