Canton Weekly Register

Eastern and American Women.
The National Intelligencer is publishing a series of letters from a citizen of
Washington, who is traveling in the Old
World. In one of his letters he thus
compares the women with those of his
own country :
In my rambles about the village of
Baalbek, I was struck with the beauty
of the children and the extreme youthfulness of some of the Arab mothers. I
saw several young females, not more than
twelve or fourteen years of age, with babies on their arms, evidently their own;
and I was told that it was quite common throughout Syria. Many of the
women are very beautiful—much more
so, I think, than either the Circassian or
Turkish women. It was quite enchanting, their fine complexion, dark eyebrows and flashing eyes; and for regularity and
delicacy of features. I have seldom seen
them equalled, except in the other parts
of Syria In Nazareth, I saw some of
the best formed and most beautiful women I had ever seen in any country: I
believe it is noted much for the beauty
of its female population among tourists
as for its historical interest: but at no
place did I see what I really thought approached the perfection of beauty in so
high a degree as in Bethlehem
The women of Bethlehem are absolutely bewitching. I never saw such
perfect profiles, such eyes and eyebrows,
and such delicate little hands and feet;
not that I mean to say that they are at
all equal in the higher attributes of beauty to our own fair country women, for
that would be sacrilege. There is no
thing in the East, or in Europe either, or
any where else that I have ever visited.
to compare with the ladies of Philadelphia. Baltimore and Washington. Talk
of Parisian beauties! Lively and vivacious they are, to be sure; but not dignified. not queenly. not gentle and modest
Talk of English beauties! Grand
enough, fair, but not graceful, and stiff
as buckram. Italian beauties! dark dull
and greasy. German. fat and florid.—
Turkish. tallowy and buttery; all well
enough in their way. But. Mashallah!
won't do to mention them in the same
breath with American beauties