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| GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. -The native Dubliner, or the person in any way familiar with the metropolis of Ireland, will at once recognize the foregoing view of Grafton street, where it approaches the old Parliament Houses and the Dublin University, usually called Trinity College. The pillared facades of both, en profile, are seen in the middle ground. Grafton street is not the widest of Dublin thoroughfares, but it contains many magnificent shops-"stores" we would call them-which attract multitudes of the fair sex to pursue the truly feminine pastime-sometimes expensive-of "shopping." If one would see the different types of Irish beauty, Grafton street on a fine, sunbright day is the place to visit. It is not extravagant to say that the Irish women of all classes possess, in general, superb figures. Even when the features are not entirely regular, the exquisite Irish female form captivates the masculine eye, because of its rounded stateliness. But the charms of the Irish women do not end with the figure. Many of them have faces all but divine. In Dublin, as in all the larger Irish cities, may be seen every type of beauty, from the Grecian to the Norse. Here are ladies with blue-black hair and gray eyes; blonde hair and brown, or black, orbs, and brown hair with every shade of eye-coloring, from the purest azure to the deepest jet. No bachelor, of any race, can stroll on Grafton street the proper kind of a day without having his heart punctured by the flashing eyes of beauty. |
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