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diff --git a/41735-h/41735-h.htm b/41735-h/41735-h.htm index 09811f0..9c7a3a8 100644 --- a/41735-h/41735-h.htm +++ b/41735-h/41735-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Girl of the Period Vol. 1, by Eliza Lynn Linton. @@ -111,46 +111,7 @@ hr.chap </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl of the Period and Other Social -Essays, Vol. I (of 2), by Eliza Lynn Linton - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays, Vol. I (of 2) - -Author: Eliza Lynn Linton - -Release Date: December 30, 2012 [EBook #41735] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL OF THE PERIOD, VOL I *** - - - - -Produced by Clarity, Mary Akers and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41735 ***</div> <p><a id="Page_i"></a></p> @@ -355,7 +316,7 @@ maintain with the conviction of long years of experience.</p> </tr> <tr> - <td class="tdl">MÉSALLIANCES</td> + <td class="tdl">MÉSALLIANCES</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_147">147</a> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">x</a></span></td> </tr> @@ -441,7 +402,7 @@ maintain with the conviction of long years of experience.</p> </tr> <tr> - <td class="tdl">LA FEMME PASSÉE</td> + <td class="tdl">LA FEMME PASSÉE</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_309">309</a></td> </tr> @@ -564,7 +525,7 @@ more precious purity and delicacy of perception which sometimes mean more than appears on the surface. What the <i>demi-monde</i> does in its frantic efforts to excite attention, she also does in imitation. -If some fashionable <i>dévergondée en évidence</i> is reported +If some fashionable <i>dévergondée en évidence</i> is reported to have come out with her dress below her shoulder-blades, and a gold strap for all the sleeve thought necessary, the Girl of the Period follows @@ -598,7 +559,7 @@ and absence of tender feeling.</p> <p>The Girl of the Period envies the queens of the <i>demi-monde</i> far more than she abhors them. She sees them gorgeously attired and sumptuously appointed, -and she knows them to be flattered, fêted, +and she knows them to be flattered, fêted, and courted with a certain disdainful admiration of which she catches only the admiration while she ignores the disdain. They have all that for which @@ -1137,7 +1098,7 @@ to be introduced, she knows about as much of them as she knows of her neighbours' girls in the next square; and in nine cases out of ten the sole duties towards them which are undertaken by her are shirked -when possible, as a <i>corvée</i> which she is too wise to +when possible, as a <i>corvée</i> which she is too wise to bear unnecessarily. When she can, she shuffles them off on some kind neighbourly hands, and lets her daughters 'go about' with the first person who offers, @@ -1807,7 +1768,7 @@ tedium of office-work.</p> <p>The little royalty of home is the last place where a woman cares to shine, and the most uninteresting of all the domains she seeks to govern. Fancy a -high-souled creature, capable of æsthetics, giving her +high-souled creature, capable of æsthetics, giving her mind to soup or the right proportion of chutnee for the curry! Fancy, too, a brilliant creature fore-going an evening's conversational glory abroad for @@ -2237,7 +2198,7 @@ finest picture or the most thoroughbred horse within his sphere; and if the degree of pride in his possession be different, the kind is the same. And so in minor proportions—from the most beautiful woman -of all, to simply beauty as a <i>sine quâ non</i>, whatever +of all, to simply beauty as a <i>sine quâ non</i>, whatever else may be wanting. One other thing only is as absolute as this beauty, and that is its undivided possession.</p> @@ -2400,10 +2361,10 @@ as if this were the Eleventh Commandment specially appointed for feminine fingers to keep, the poetic culmination of whom is Charlotte cutting bread and butter; the other, his Mary, his Bettina, full of mind -and æsthetics and heart-uplifting love, yearning after +and æsthetics and heart-uplifting love, yearning after the infinite with holes in her stockings and her shoes down at heel. For what are coarse material mendings -to the æsthetic soul yearning after the Infinite and +to the æsthetic soul yearning after the Infinite and worshipping at the feet of the prophet?</p> <p>In Italy the ideal woman of late times was the @@ -2416,12 +2377,12 @@ mourning. In Spain it is a woman beautiful and impassioned, with the slight drawback of needing a world of looking after, of which the men are undeniably capable. In Mohammedan countries generally -it is a comely smooth-skinned Dudù, patient and submissive, +it is a comely smooth-skinned Dudù, patient and submissive, always in good humour with her master, economical in house-living to please the meanness, and gorgeous in occasional attire to gratify the ostentation, of the genuine Oriental; but by no -means Dudù ever asleep and unoccupied. For, if +means Dudù ever asleep and unoccupied. For, if <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">66</a></span> not allowed to take part in active outside life, the Eastern's wife or wives have their home duties and @@ -2626,7 +2587,7 @@ will make quite as fine a show. How poor soever she may be, she must hang herself about with ornaments made of painted wood, of glass, of vulcanite; she must break out into spangles and beads and chains -and <i>benoîtons</i>, which are cheap luxuries and, as she +and <i>benoîtons</i>, which are cheap luxuries and, as she thinks, effective decorations. Flimsy silks make as rich a rustle to her ear as the stateliest brocade; and cotton velvet delights the soul that cannot aspire to Genoa. @@ -2876,7 +2837,7 @@ of affronted womanhood. A man who speaks of their faults as they appear to him, and as he suffers by them, is illiberal and unmanly, and the rage of the more hysterically indignant would not be very far -below that of the Thracian Mænads, could they lay +below that of the Thracian Mænads, could they lay hands on the offending Orpheus of the moment; but a woman who speaks from knowledge, and touches the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">82</a></span> @@ -2946,7 +2907,7 @@ whom they belong see fit to bring them. They cannot at one and the same time have the good of both <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">84</a></span> positions—the courtesy claimed by weakness and the -honour paid to prowess. If they mingle in the <i>mêlée</i> +honour paid to prowess. If they mingle in the <i>mêlée</i> they must expect as hard knocks as the rest, and must submit to be bullied when they hit foul and to be struck home when they hit wide. If they do not @@ -3109,7 +3070,7 @@ dropped her mantle as she finally departed; and we still have the Della Cruscan essence, if not in the precise form of earlier times. We still have ethereal beings who, as the practical outcome of their etherealization, -rave about music and poetry and æsthetics +rave about music and poetry and æsthetics and culture, and horribly neglect their babies and the weekly bills.</p> @@ -3261,11 +3222,11 @@ whose mental attitude is self-depreciation, and who poses herself as a mere nobody when the world is ringing with her praises. 'Is it possible that your Grace has ever heard of <i>me</i>?' said one of this class -with prettily affected <i>naïveté</i> at a time when all +with prettily affected <i>naïveté</i> at a time when all England was astir about her, and when colours and fashions went by her name to make them take with the public at large. No one knew better than the -fair <i>ingénue</i> in question how far and wide her fame +fair <i>ingénue</i> in question how far and wide her fame had spread; but she thought it looked modest and simple to assume ignorance of her own value, and to declare that she was but a creeping worm when all @@ -3734,7 +3695,7 @@ state which is so destructive to mind and body, weakening as it does both fibre and resolution, both muscle and good principle. At last she languidly rises, to be dressed in time for luncheon and -her favoured intimates—the men who have the <i>entrée</i> +her favoured intimates—the men who have the <i>entrée</i> at sacred hours when the world in general is forbidden. Some time later she dresses again for her drive—for the first part of the day's serious @@ -3748,7 +3709,7 @@ air drawing-room, makes private appointments, carries on flirtations, and hears and retails gossip and scandal of a full flavour. Then she goes home to dress for tea in a 'lovely gown' of suggestive piquancy; to be -followed by dinner, the opera or a concert, a <i>soirée</i>, +followed by dinner, the opera or a concert, a <i>soirée</i>, or perhaps a ball or two; whence she returns towards <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">111</a></span> morning, flushed with excitement or worn out with @@ -3802,7 +3763,7 @@ he is a man of honour and integrity, and knows how to add self-respect and moral power to the qualities which have made him the general favourite. For his influence over women is almost unlimited—like -nothing so much as that of the handsome Abbé of +nothing so much as that of the handsome Abbé of the Regency or the fascinating Monsignore of Rome; and if he chooses to abuse it and turn it to evil issues, he can. And, however great the merit in him @@ -3881,7 +3842,7 @@ becomes as artificial as her habits.</p> <p>As years go on, and she changes from the acknowledged <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">115</a></span> -belle to <i>la femme passée</i>, she goes through a +belle to <i>la femme passée</i>, she goes through a period of frantic endeavour to retain her youth; and even when time has clutched her with too firm a hand to be shaken off, and she begins to feel the infirmities @@ -3970,7 +3931,7 @@ which the world has made typical of the vices naturally engendered by idleness and luxury. But do we wish that our women should become subjects for an English Juvenal? that fashion should -create a race of Laïses and Messalinas, of Lucrezia +create a race of Laïses and Messalinas, of Lucrezia Borgias and Madame du Barrys, out of the stock which once gave us Lucy Hutchinson and Elizabeth Fry? Once the name of Englishwoman carried @@ -4360,7 +4321,7 @@ once briefless and now in silk—an artist once obscure and now famous—who in the days of impecuniosity and Bohemianism married the landlady's pretty daughter and towards the meridian of life find -themselves in the front ranks of <i>la haute volée</i> with a +themselves in the front ranks of <i>la haute volée</i> with a wife who drops her h's and multiplies her s's, know the full bitterness of the bread baked from that hasty brewing. Each woman may have been beautiful in @@ -4468,8 +4429,8 @@ they all besiege. Only to those exceptional few who regard dancing as a serious art would she be a bore with her three jumps and a hop; while Hecate, waltzing like an angel, would be divine, in spite of -her high cheek-bones and light green eyes <i>à fleur de -tête</i>. But at a dinner-table, where a man likes to talk +her high cheek-bones and light green eyes <i>à fleur de +tête</i>. But at a dinner-table, where a man likes to talk between the dishes, a sympathetic listener with pleasant manners, to whom he can air his stalest stories and recount his personal experiences, is preferable @@ -4493,7 +4454,7 @@ all the pleasant little artificial graces belonging to an artificial civilization, and who think any sacrifice made to appearance just so much waste of power, are awful creatures, ignorant of the real meaning of their -sex—social Graiæ wanting in every charm of womanhood, +sex—social Graiæ wanting in every charm of womanhood, and to be diligently shunned by the wary.</p> <p>This making the best of themselves is a very different @@ -4826,7 +4787,7 @@ civilized out of existence altogether!</p> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">147</a></span></p> -<h2><i>MÉSALLIANCES.</i></h2> +<h2><i>MÉSALLIANCES.</i></h2> <p>The French system of parents arranging the marriage of their children without the consent of the girl @@ -4901,7 +4862,7 @@ are more frequent with us than with the French, with whom indeed, in the higher classes, they are next to impossible; and, unfortunately, the corollary to this is that love-marriages are too often -<i>mésalliances</i>. There is of course no question, ethically, +<i>mésalliances</i>. There is of course no question, ethically, between virtuous vulgarity and refined vice. A groom who smells of the stable and speaks broad Somersetshire or racier Cumberland, but who is brave, @@ -4920,7 +4881,7 @@ smelling of the stable, the fitter husband of the two. <p>If we take the same case out of our own time and circumstances, we have no doubt as to the choice to be made. It seems to us a very little matter that -honest Charicles should tell his love to Aglaë in the +honest Charicles should tell his love to Aglaë in the broad Doric tongue instead of in the polished Athenian accents to which she was accustomed; that he should wear his chiton a hand's breadth too long or @@ -4933,13 +4894,13 @@ which the refined Cleon laughed as he nudged his neighbour. Yet all these conventional solecisms, of no account whatever now, would have weighed heavily against poor Charicles when he went to demand -Aglaë's hand; and the balance would probably +Aglaë's hand; and the balance would probably have gone down in favour of that scampish Cleon, who was an Athenian of the Athenians, perfect in all the graces of the age, but not to be compared to his rival in anything that makes a man noble or respectable. We, who read only from a distance, -think that Aglaë's father made a mistake, and that +think that Aglaë's father made a mistake, and that the honester man would have been the better choice of the two.</p> @@ -4972,9 +4933,9 @@ things should be disunited.</p> <p>Love-marriages, made against the will of the parents before the character is formed and while the obligations of society are still unrealized, are generally -<i>mésalliances</i> founded on passion and fancy only. +<i>mésalliances</i> founded on passion and fancy only. A man and woman of mature age who know what -they want may make a <i>mésalliance</i>, but it is made +they want may make a <i>mésalliance</i>, but it is made with a full understanding and deliberate choice; and, if the thing turns out badly, they can blame themselves less for precipitancy than for wrong calculation. @@ -4999,7 +4960,7 @@ what was going on, and sent that artful Sarah to the right about—just a week too late.</p> <p>It is the same with girls; but in a far greater -extent. If a youth's <i>mésalliance</i> is a millstone round +extent. If a youth's <i>mésalliance</i> is a millstone round his neck for life, a girl's is simply destruction. The natural instinct with all women is to marry above themselves; and we know on what physiological @@ -5031,7 +4992,7 @@ instincts; and has done substantially a worse thing than has the boy who married his mother's maid. Society understands this, and not unjustly if harshly punishes the one while it lets the other go scot-free; -so that the woman who makes a <i>mésalliance</i> +so that the woman who makes a <i>mésalliance</i> suffers on every side, and destroys her life almost as much as the woman who goes wrong.</p> @@ -5041,7 +5002,7 @@ needs of social life, and they know how fleeting are the passions of youth and how they fade by time and use and inharmonious conditions; and they feel that their first duty to their children is to prevent a -<i>mésalliance</i> which has nothing, and can have nothing, +<i>mésalliance</i> which has nothing, and can have nothing, but passion for its basis. But novelists and poets are against the hard dull dictates of worldly wisdom, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">154</a></span> @@ -5105,13 +5066,13 @@ corns which last long after the shoe itself fits easily. We do not advocate the French system of marrying off our girls according to our own ideas of suitableness, and without consulting them; but we not the -less think that, of all fatal social mistakes, <i>mésalliances</i> +less think that, of all fatal social mistakes, <i>mésalliances</i> are the most fatal, and, in the case of women, to be <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">156</a></span> avoided and prevented at any cost short of a broken heart or a premature death. And even death would sometimes be better than the life-long misery, the -enduring shame and humiliation, of certain <i>mésalliances</i>.</p> +enduring shame and humiliation, of certain <i>mésalliances</i>.</p> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">157</a></span></p> @@ -5244,7 +5205,7 @@ for missions; and if her money is put to no baser use than supplying church embroidery for some Brother Ignatius at home, or blankets for converted Africans in the tropics. It might go into Agapemones, -into spiritual Athenæums, into Bond Street +into spiritual Athenæums, into Bond Street back-parlours, where it certainly would do no good, take it any way one would; for, as it must go into some side-channel dug by stronger hands than hers, @@ -5458,8 +5419,8 @@ respectably if only they might have kicked off the embroidered shoes of sovereignty and betaken themselves to the highlows of the herd—if only they might have exchanged the sceptre for the turning-lathe, -the pen or the fowling-piece. 'Je déteste mon -métier de roi,' Victor Emmanuel is reported to have +the pen or the fowling-piece. 'Je déteste mon +métier de roi,' Victor Emmanuel is reported to have said to a republican friend who sympathized with the monarch's well-known tastes in other things <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">169</a></span> @@ -6430,7 +6391,7 @@ Trojan; and why not others? She would merely tighten her lips and hold her breath, and then would sit down to let herself be hacked and mangled without a groan or a word. To judge by the notice -given of her in her sister's life, Emily Brontë was +given of her in her sister's life, Emily Brontë was of the grim class, and about the grimmest for her age and state that could well be found. Had she lived, and lived unsoftened, she would have been @@ -6553,7 +6514,7 @@ without pity; their want of experience making them hard towards sorrows which they do not understand—let us charitably hope also making them ignorant of the pain they inflict. That famous article in the -<i>Times</i> on the cruelty of young girls, <i>àpropos</i> of +<i>Times</i> on the cruelty of young girls, <i>à propos</i> of Constance Kent's confession, though absurdly exaggerated, had in it the core of truth which gives the sting to such papers, which makes them stick, and @@ -6614,7 +6575,7 @@ if pedantic, she is spoilt as a siren at any age—but she knows a little about most things; at all <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">207</a></span> events, she knows enough to make her a pleasant -companion in a <i>tête-à-tête</i> or at a dinner-table, and to +companion in a <i>tête-à -tête</i> or at a dinner-table, and to enable her to keep up the ball when thrown. And men like to talk to intelligent women. They do not like to be taught nor corrected by them, but they @@ -6642,7 +6603,7 @@ every point is made to tell and every minor beauty is given its fullest value. For part of the art and mystery of sirenhood is an accurate perception of times and conditions, and a careful avoidance of that -suicidal mistake of which <i>la femme passée</i> is so often +suicidal mistake of which <i>la femme passée</i> is so often guilty—namely, setting herself in confessed rivalry <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">208</a></span> with the young by trying to look like them, and so @@ -6703,7 +6664,7 @@ most delicate womanliness—we had almost said girlishness into quite old age, blushing as swiftly under their grey hairs, while shrinking from anything coarse or vulgar or impure as sensitively, as when they were -girls. <i>La femme à quarante ans</i> is the French term for +girls. <i>La femme à quarante ans</i> is the French term for the opening of the great gulf beyond which love cannot pass; but human history disproves this date, and shows that the heart can remain fresh and the person @@ -7276,7 +7237,7 @@ others are born nuns, so is the Wadman woman a born wife, and shines in no other character nor capacity. But in this she excels; and knowing <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">228</a></span> -this, she sticks to her <i>rôle</i>, how frequently so ever +this, she sticks to her <i>rôle</i>, how frequently so ever the protagonist may be changed.</p> <p>There are widows, however, who have no thought @@ -7306,7 +7267,7 @@ honour, and whose public life was a mark for the future to date by. When he died the press wrote his eulogy and his elegy; but his widow, when she put on her weeds, sang softly in her own heart -a pæan to the great King of Freedom, and whispered +a pæan to the great King of Freedom, and whispered to herself Laudamus with a sigh of unutterable <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">229</a></span> relief. To such a woman widowhood has no @@ -7359,7 +7320,7 @@ of the funereal gloom into the starlight of a possible bridal. She begins too to take pleasure in the old familiar things of life. She steals into a quiet back seat at the Opera; she just walks through a quadrille; -she sees no harm in a fête or flower-show, if +she sees no harm in a fête or flower-show, if properly companioned. Winter does not last for ever; and a life-long mourning is a wearisome prospect. So she goes through her degrees in accurate @@ -7735,7 +7696,7 @@ of every description; but alas! there is no battered old prototype in the nursery lumber-closet; and, whether she likes it or not, she has to succumb to the inevitable decree, and to become faded, worn -out, unlovely, till the final <i>coup de grâce</i> is given +out, unlovely, till the final <i>coup de grâce</i> is given and the poor doll is no more. Poor, weak, frivolous doll! it requires some faith to believe that she is of any good whatsoever in this overladen life of ours; @@ -7994,7 +7955,7 @@ and on all occasions—does not come into the list.</p> non-aggressive force, always have their own way in the end. They are the women who influence by unseen methods and who shrink from any open display -of power. They know that their <i>métier</i> is to +of power. They know that their <i>métier</i> is to soothe men, to put them on good terms with themselves, and so to get the benefit of the good humour they induce; and they dread nothing so much as a @@ -8021,7 +7982,7 @@ or wear, is exactly the right thing; and every other woman fails in proportion to the distance she is removed from this model. When a charming woman is dressed richly, the simpler costumes of her friends -look poor and mean; when she is <i>à la bergère</i>, the +look poor and mean; when she is <i>à la bergère</i>, the Court dresses about her are vulgar; when she is gay, quietness is dullness; when she is quiet, laughter is coarse. And there is no use in trying to imitate her. @@ -8406,7 +8367,7 @@ fine feelings will be hurt. They suffer no liberties to be taken with them and they take none with others; counting all frock-coat friendliness as taking liberties, and holding themselves refined and you -coarse if you think that manners <i>sans façon</i> are +coarse if you think that manners <i>sans façon</i> are pleasanter than those which put themselves eternally into stays and stiff buckram, and are never in more undress than a Court suit. They will not go into @@ -8607,7 +8568,7 @@ say, so much more than others. These are the people who are great on the theory of nervous differences, and who maintain that their cowardice and impatience of suffering means an organization like an -Æolian harp for sensibility. The oddest part of the +Æolian harp for sensibility. The oddest part of the business is the sublime contempt which these sensitives have for other persons' patience and endurance, and how much more refined and touching they think @@ -8742,7 +8703,7 @@ and recognition. Leading two lives and personating two men—the one as imagined by his friends, the other as known to his belongings—was a kind of existence he liked infinitely better than the commonplace -respectability of being <i>en évidence</i> throughout.</p> +respectability of being <i>en évidence</i> throughout.</p> <p>With certain sphinxes, no one but the officials <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">277</a></span> @@ -8809,7 +8770,7 @@ is her secret, and she holds it sacred. And you may be quite sure of one thing—it is a secret she will never share with you nor any one else.</p> -<p>The rapidly-working <i>littérateur</i> is another sphinx +<p>The rapidly-working <i>littérateur</i> is another sphinx <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">279</a></span> worth studying as a curiosity—we might say, indeed, a living miracle. There he stands, a jovial, @@ -9120,7 +9081,7 @@ and a few weeks of gratified vanity on the other.</p> <p>It used to be an old schoolboy maxim that no real gentleman could be refused by a lady, because no real gentleman could presume beyond his line of -encouragement. <i>À fortiori</i>, no lady would or could +encouragement. <i>À fortiori</i>, no lady would or could give more encouragement than she meant. What are we to say then of our flirts if this maxim be true? Are they really 'no gentlemen' and 'no ladies,' @@ -9731,7 +9692,7 @@ critically by the uninterested part of the audience.</p> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">309</a></span></p> -<h2><i>LA FEMME PASSÉE.</i></h2> +<h2><i>LA FEMME PASSÉE.</i></h2> <p>Without doubt it is a time of trial to all women, more or less painful according to individual disposition, @@ -9835,7 +9796,7 @@ transparency of her skin have gone; the pearly clearness of her eye is clouded; the slender grace of line is lost—but for all that she is beautiful, and she is intrinsically young. What she has lost in outside -material charm—in that mere <i>beauté du diable</i> of +material charm—in that mere <i>beauté du diable</i> of youth—she has gained in character and expression; and by not attempting to simulate the attractiveness of a girl, she keeps what nature gave her—the attractiveness @@ -9855,8 +9816,8 @@ and in unselfishness. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">313</a></span></p> <p>Standing far apart from this sweet and wholesome -idealization is <i>la femme passée</i> of to-day—the reality -as we meet with it at balls and fêtes and afternoon +idealization is <i>la femme passée</i> of to-day—the reality +as we meet with it at balls and fêtes and afternoon At Homes, ever foremost in the mad chase after pleasure, for which alone she seems to think she has been sent into the world. Dressed in the extreme @@ -9877,7 +9838,7 @@ to soften the dreadful shadows of her leanness—there she stands, the wretched creature who will not consent to grow old, and who still affects to be a fresh coquettish girl when she is nothing but <i>la femme -passée—la femme passée et ridicule</i> into the bargain.</p> +passée—la femme passée et ridicule</i> into the bargain.</p> <p>There is not a folly for which even the thoughtlessness of youth is but a poor excuse into which @@ -9940,14 +9901,14 @@ we add to this, the corruption of society. For whom, but for her, are the 'little secrets' which are continually being advertised as woman's social salvation—regardless of grammar? The 'eaux noire, -brun, et châtain, which dyes the hair any shade in +brun, et châtain, which dyes the hair any shade in one minute;' the 'kohl for the eyelids;' the 'blanc de perle,' and 'rouge de Lubin'—which does not wash off; the 'bleu pour les veines;' the 'rouge of eight shades,' and 'the sympathetic blush,' which are cynically offered for the use and adoption of our mothers and daughters, find their chief patroness in -the <i>femme passée</i> who makes herself up—the middle-aged +the <i>femme passée</i> who makes herself up—the middle-aged <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">316</a></span> matron engaged in her frantic struggle against time, and obstinately refusing to grow old in spite of @@ -10024,7 +9985,7 @@ work of masculine life. A man subjected to this insidious injury is simply ruined so far as any real manliness of nature goes. He is made into that sickening creature, 'a sweet being,' as the women -call him—a woman's man with æsthetic tastes and a +call him—a woman's man with æsthetic tastes and a turn for poetry; full of highflown sentiment and morbid sympathies; a man almost as much woman as man, who has no backbone of useful ambition in @@ -10157,7 +10118,7 @@ in the simulation of manner; and perhaps no women are more tenacious of the outward forms of deference than those who have lost their claim to the vital reality. It is very striking to see the difference between -the women of this type, the <i>petites maîtresses</i> +the women of this type, the <i>petites maîtresses</i> who require the utmost attention and almost servility from man, and the noble dignity of service <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">323</a></span> @@ -10653,7 +10614,7 @@ loved for her own special qualities; and her husband may not have a thought towards his new friend, or any other woman, in the remotest degree trenching on his allegiance to her; but the fact that he finds -pleasure, though only of an intellectual and æsthetic +pleasure, though only of an intellectual and æsthetic kind, in the society of any other woman, that he feels an interest in her life, chooses her for his friend, or finds community of pursuits or sympathy in ideas, @@ -10708,7 +10669,7 @@ the home her special sanctuary, and that guests <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_341" id="Page_341">341</a></span> whom she did not invite were intruders. She would perhaps go willingly enough to a ball or crowded -<i>soirée</i>, or she might like to give one; but that +<i>soirée</i>, or she might like to give one; but that intimate form of society, which is a mere enlargement of the home life, she dreads as the supplementing of deficiencies, and thinks her married happiness @@ -10810,383 +10771,6 @@ Minor spelling and punctuation inconsistencies, mainly hyphenated words, have be Any lacking page numbers are those given to blank pages in the original text. </p></div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl of the Period and Other -Social Essays, Vol. I (of 2), by Eliza Lynn Linton - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL OF THE PERIOD, VOL I *** - -***** This file should be named 41735-h.htm or 41735-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/7/3/41735/ - -Produced by Clarity, Mary Akers and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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