yself, 'Well, this must be a very comfortable world,
after all, for people do enjoy themselves in it amazingly.' This
difference is still more perceptible on personal acquaintance. An italian
lady never sits, and utters common-places with freezing formality. She is
more flexible, and indeed, if the truth be said, better natured, and
happier than too many of my countrywomen. She is not the keen look-out,
lest she should fail to frown every time propriety demands.

"There is no country in the world where woman is so worshipped, and
allowed to have her own way as in America, and yet there is no country,
where she is so ungrateful for the place, and power she occupies. Have you
never in Broadway, when the omnibus was full, stepped out into the rain to
let a lady take your place, which she most unhesitatingly did, and with an
indifference in her manner as if she considered it the merest trifle in
the world you had done? How cold, and heartless her 'thank ye,' if she
gave one! Dickens makes the same remark with regard to stage coaches--so
does Hamilton. Now, do such a favor for an italian lady, and you would be
rewarded with one of the sweetest smiles, that ever brightened on a human
countenance. I do not go on the principle that a man must always expect a
reward for his good deeds; yet, when I have had my kindest offices, as a
stranger, received as if I were almost suspected of making improper
advances, I have felt there was little pleasure in being civil. The
'grazie, Signore,' and smile with which an italian rewards the commonest
civility, would make the plainest woman appear handsome in the eyes of a
foreigner."

The above lines of Mr. Headley, though rather too severe ones, will, with
time, benefit the american ladies more, than any thing said by foreigners:
not because Mr. Headley was the first to observe it; Mr. Headley, being an
american, cannot be thought of having any bad feeling towards his
country-women. However, though I am a stranger in America, I will give
more justice to the american ladies, and heal their toe, since I see them
created to cheer us with their charming Polka: waiting, in the mean time,
until steam, and tourists will have rendered them better, and better.

My purpose here is to demonstrate that the ladies' faults in America, are
the faults of those who keep suspenders to their pantaloons. The american
ladies are disposed to gentility as well as any lady in the world; and
were, here, italian ladi