AMERICAN GIRLS IN ENGLAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1864, 17 June 1884, Page 4

AMERICAN GIRLS IN ENGLAND.

Iv America there are mimy girls who are either very beautiful or very rich, or both. Of late it has been quite the lage among these charming pills ((laughters of •siKh a democratic countiy) to expect ti:kd young Englishmen aa husbands The theory is that the impoveiished scions of noble houses are not at all averse to recuperating their loweiel fortunes by alliances with the daughters of the millionaire railway kings, sil\cr kings, cattle kings and other kings, in which that republican country is prolific. Well, in case the American guls should get too much oppress d with the idta of their own iiioMstableness a kind Englishman has written them a cheerful letter. It appeared in a San Francisco paper. We gi\e quotations for what they are worth : — " The doors of the first society of England do not open to mere wealth, no matter how pertinacious and crushing. Many of that society's ino&t bulliaut and respected members are poor ; yet no shoddy millionaire could get an invitation to a Bclgravia or Mayfair drawing room, unless by an accident American women are delighted about their own beauty ? Well, look at them. [ will be bound not one of them has the clear eye, the rosy complexion, the sound, firm, white teeth, that betoken perfect health. Look at them when ihiity more years have passed over th^ir heads, and compare them with the same number ot English men and women of the same age, and see which makes the best showing. About their enormous social success ? I deny this ' enormous succes 5 ,' American newspapers to the contrary notwithstanding. She has to take a b\ck seat in Europe, unless chaperoned by some one whose social standing is unquestioned, and then she will find it difficult enough to hold her oh n. lam aware there is one beautiful Amciican girl who married the heir of a dukedom, but he had gone to the clogs anyway, and he would have found some difficulty in marrying any stunning bdauty in England. Let me give one woul of advice to wealthy guls who are ambitious of marrying a title, and to wealthy parents who are scheming to bung about such an alliance, and that word of ad\ice is 'Dont.' You make yom selves and your daughters lidiculous m the efTott, and then fail most pro bably ; but should you succeed you ha\e put jour daughter in such a position she is in no way iitted to fill. This may be cjnieal, but it is true, for the topmost plane of English society represents seven hundred years ot cultme and biteding, and to day it is the most aiistocivitic, the most exclusive, and the most elegant in the woild. They all bear the stamp of high breeding. It is bom in them, and giows up witli them, and was not put on as a garment after then f.itheis made a fortune in cotton, or pork, or < il, or mines, or lailioads. It is a fact iOj generally Known that a man with an An enean wife is seriously handi capped in England. She is rather looked down upon. I have in mind a Pacific 1 Coast lioness who matiicd a title, and she is frequently spoken of, rather ; i'lONcrently an-l ungallantly, as the ' mustang.' Therefore, if American girls are w ise, they will not go to England for a husband,"

A Farmer's wife" wants to know if we can iccommend any tiling to destroy the " common grub." We guess the next tintnp that comes along could oblige you, if the family can't stand your cooking. Lvsr year the Legislative Council of Western A.U3tialia voted £50 for the purpose of establishing oyster-beds on the coasts of that colony. " We have struck a smoother road, ha\ <."'nt we ? asked a passenger of a conductor on a V.inkc 1 railway. " No," replied the conductor, " we have only run off the ti.uk. ' A PRccissioN of seminary misses was three houis in passma a given point last iSatuiday, but the bonnets in the window weie unusually fine, and well worthy attention. A LUi- ot Chinese Ooulon has just been published in England, to be sold for a penny, for the benefit of the poer. He is at piesent, and deseives to remain so, the moss popular hero since the Duke of Wellington. Pnoi i,hson Taits elementary treatise on '" Heat" and Piofessor Jeffrey tinker's " Coiiisc of Instiuctiou in Zootomy" aie just lc.idy for publication. Both books form new volumes of Messrs McMillan's " Manuals for Students." M Courmj.aux, the Fiench Sppcial Commissioner, says that after careful study and enquiry, ' he finds that from the year 1872 to 1833, only 42 escapees fiom New Caledonia reached Queensland, nearly all of whom were captured and taken back." Tin: biggest man in Australasia is Thomas D, Jennings of Hobart, where he has been living tor nearly half a centuiy. He weighs 32V stone, and his measurement is : — Chest, OSin.; waist, 82m.; calf, 20in. He is 5 teet 10 inches in height, and has never taken a dose of physic in his life. He is 60 yeais of ago and looks hearty enough to become a centenarian. The woi ld is a little place after all. That the False Prophet should regulate the puce of candy in Boston would undoubtedly seem as improbable as that the Khan of Tartary should " bull " the stock m,u kot,or the Chinese Emperor determine tho pi ice of shoes in England. Yet auch is the fact. This ctnious circumstance happens thus: The basis of much confectionoiy, notably gum drops and marshmallow, is gum arable. Now, the market foi gum arable is Khartoum, for the world's gum aiabic comc3 fiom the Soudan. Taken on barges to Cairo at the fall freshets, m bales of 500 lbs., it is shipped to London, Pans, Marseilles and New Yoik to the abnegate of 18,000 bales. Miihdi has laised the invoice piiee from So to 20c. per lb., and tho price is rising. Tlioie is no crop this year. There thicatsnsto be none next. Egypt certainly cannot well bend for what little ha 9 been stored. There is, theiefore, every l eason to suppose that gum will reaeii 50c. shoitly, anil fortunes will doubtless be made by the wary. A CLLKisRATU) composer once lost his way in a dense forest, when he found himself on a path leading to what seemed a large edifice in the distance. Meeting a pel son on this path, he inquired his way, but the man made no rc-sponse. Meeting another, the same pioceeding took place, and also with six others that he met. He was at a loss to account for this until he came to the building, where he lead, "Asylum for Deaf Mutes." This explained it all, and he at once sat down and wrote " We never speak as we pass by." Bpethoven was once met during a heavy shower by a friend who was unprotected fiom the elements. "Lend me your umbrella," sighed the latter. The pi eat master at once composed the song "Wait till the clouds i oil by. A composer of eminence being told that his music was somewhat trashy, and that he had better " turu over a new leaf," at once wrote "When the Leaves Begin to Turn." Franz Abt once travelled upon a western raihoad, where he was allowed ' fi\ c minutes for refreshments " in which to eat a1 50 dol. dinner. Observing the fmious gulps made by his fellow-travel-leis to get their moneys worth iv the limited time, he spontaneously composed " When the Swallows Homeward Fly." Guglielmo once called upon a betrothed couple, and was invited to dine with them. The young man, while carving the turkey, was so abstracted gazing at his sweetheart that he sent the gobbler three times into the lap of the composer, and caused seven streams of gravy to run over his face. Guglielmo left without eating anything and went home and composed " The lover and the bird." Claribel wrote " Take back the heart" to a partner at whist who revoked when diamonds were led. Sullivan, after looking all over the house for a piece of twine to tie a bundle with, sat down in a furious passion and evolved "Tho lost cord."— Albany JouanaJ,