ous notion, as
will be seen upon a moment's reflection. For the women in both
countries are the mothers of both the men and the women; and the men
are the fathers of both the men and the women; and as some of the women
are of their fathers' types and some of the men of their mothers', the
imputed difference of the two in personal beauty could not be brought
about. It is physiologically impossible that the women of a race should
be handsomer than the men, and _vice versa_.

It is nevertheless true that the men in England are on the whole more
attractive to the eye than the women, and that the women in "America"
are generally much more attractive than the men. The cause of this is a
fact very distinctive of the social surface of the two countries. I
have spoken of the "set up" and the bearing of the men in England. It
is very remarkable, and is far superior to anything of the kind that is
found even among the most cultivated people in this country, except in
comparatively rare individual cases. But in England it is common; it is
the rule. There, from the middle classes up, a slovenly man is a rare
exception. There men are almost universally neat and tidy, and they
carry themselves with a conscious self-respect. They do not slouch.
They do not go about, even in the morning, with coats unbuttoned,
skirts flying, and their hands in their overcoat pockets. They dress
soberly, quietly, with manly simplicity, but almost always in good
taste, and with notable neatness. They are manly looking men, with an
air of conscious manhood. Moreover, in England the man is still
recognized as the superior. England has been called the purgatory of
horses and the paradise of women. But that saying came from the
continent of Europe, where women, except in the very highest and most
cultivated classes, are not treated with that tenderness and
consideration for their weakness and their womanly functions which I am
inclined to think is somewhat peculiar to the English race. I should
call England the paradise of men; for there the world is made for them;
and women are happy in making it so. An Englishman who is the head of a
family is not only master of his house, but of the whole household. His
will is recognized as the law of that household. No one thinks of
disputing it. It is not deemed unreasonable that in the house which he
provides and keeps up his comfort and his convenience should be first
considered, or that, as he is responsible for his