THE ENGLISH DAMSEL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 22 February 1881, Page 2

THE ENGLISH DAMSEL.

Why cannot English be&ipght to move, walk, and even laugh ? Even if they manage to enter a room with ease and self possession, they lack t|iat gift of grace that, when it is not natural, can be very well imitated by training; As to “ standing at ease,” not an Englishwoman in fifty can do it. They are given to resting their weight on one fool, and then'transfixing' it to the other. As to laughing, how seldom, except on the stage do we hear a r ally musical laugh. Some ..girls make dreadful grimaces when they laugh. It runs in families sometimes to distort the countenance in laughter. I know a family who laugh a great deal. Their eyes always shut up when they do so, and it is the funniest thing when one dines with them, and semethipg •musing is said, to look round the table, and see exactly the same distortion on every face. There is not an eye left in the family. Three sisters whom I know show quite half an inch of pale pink gum when they laughs In their presence, like Wendell‘ Holmes, on# “never dares to be as funny as one can/ for fear of seeing this appalling triple vision gums.— London “ Truth.”