MRS. SCOTT-SIDDONS ON BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 188, 31 December 1881, Page 2

MRS. SCOTT-SIDDONS ON BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

Mr?. Feott-Siddons has. beep talking about beautiful women. American women, • *he consider*, . have far m ore beauty that* English ; Boston and Pbilar del phia being- especially favored spot* fit* its growth.. Xa America very you»g women are tbe most beautiful. It is m the 6rst flush of girlhood that one seejr tbe moil handsome facea m the Ne* World. Tbe Canadian! women have greater elegance of manner than, the Br^»b v who. are irfil. m seciety .vfren young. Australian ladies are frtqudnlly pate and tall, freer m manner than tbe Euglish, but not so free ac their American sisters — a happy medium. Mrfl.-Si'ld^tt' naively adds that beautiful faces are rare m England, and that is why socfa a fnaa is mnd'e when one is fouad'. She think* that irregularity of f atures is rather tiresome,, and iibowi a lack of expression, " Miss Niilfon^" she uy«, " hat nfot » •atinfactoiy face. Mr*. L^ngf> j is on^ of your iiregular.featured 1 beauties, and, a* uiuaT with them, «he has a great dfal of«xptcg§ion. Of handsome vromcntbat 1 1 have 9?en by' fa- the Jo^eje 'if the Oounte-is of Lonada'e. . She is que'n-KVr m her rtvle, possosie* symmetT' ettbtm and has rr^ihr futures, y-t not atonf. .The Princess of Wales, if exceedingly .like her pictures; and is yoiißg looking. |Sbe jraiittle';aeaf, and ««r" bmffifcy m trying- V catch everyt'iihg makes her mteresfingr There i* »charmmg<onfcplaisance about her." Being beautiful may not perbap% make one a judge oT beauty*; but lVfrs. Scott-Siddoß»g varied «t^erfence m all' pa^ts of the wof 1(4 won Id gl 3^ h' r 1 eVery % i3ea> oP-what" beanty iti wnmrn ia v ,AA9 to Mrt Siddons berseH, opinions nriy differ »•* ta whether she if b^nj)itif\il^ nr»f^ Jiint everyone will admit that »h ■i j decidedly prepoa-essing &* well a^ graceful, and one ofthe most^a<sy«Hke exponents ofthe drama that erer visited these colonies. —