New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-17

themselyes in social affairs. The English never
acknowledge tho truth frankly but they are Us
keen To know what Americans do as the Americans
are TO know what the English do, keener 10 Walcil
them We begin to think than they nIe 70 "a aocT
Parsians. They like 10 hear OF aI'SIn iI pni
for stalls 10 SEQ Victor lIugOs drama, y lie hoI
s'amuse" prohibited for fifty years; Dut they arc
ore interested in seeing that scores oil New oIA
ers campod out all night in the porches OF theatre
in order to he early enough to buy the much
sought-for tickets They have, we OeheVe,
Qrandfalberly feeling about the matter. hnH W.
pleasure or 10 may bo pain. IN seeing that ne N1M
World in its frvOlties at least IS so very ike the
Old Tere are those children OF ours, WIN con con
tneut to conquer, and the future Oh tne W"IIu,
perhaps in their hands, sitting up an hsut anu
sncnd NJ y thousands TO make sure that they VIII
see n brautiful face! Chester did precisely the
zane thing-or was It Shrewsbury. for We have
half-forgOten the legend Ito see the beautliIl
Miss Cummings" and Chester IS great gtal9,
mother of New York 1t is Of interest to note how IL
kuowlodge grows, wisdom fingers and folly re-
mains as of Old, especially if the foollShncss IS not
very harmful is not ut our expense. ana ~ cAtl"''
tied by our own descendants. One Smiles lue's
and if there he little scofn in tho smile lueIo
oIso rearet for ones own past. This semi ernl,
interest in things American II, We are cohEinC
quito genuine, and exceedingly deep ana VIII oi;o
day make the fortune OF some oDsertant trhyTAti
b0ok II some MIR. PdgcOn would only tei iIe
Young generation how American boys ana etIs
dress lirt, digport ard educate themselves wiz
success he would have! EnRiiSh men anu "oi.I.u
get hcrcd to death with those accounts OF Aieiicdn
institutions pientituily studded WIN siatls'e5
which are tha temptation oil EHsish tia'oieIs' unn
who, with faces brmul OF humor ana keohutss
must still tell you how the froe schools are man
aged: but the moment social facts are mentioned
t6e moment some charitable American gIrl eK-
plains why she has more OF " good tme III M
aGelphia than her sister has IN Liverpool now tuo
indifference disappears Dozens Vi competent pei
sons with pens have reviewed. "DemocfacJ auu
" The Europeans and most OF them. no douoI;
have done il vel but uone OF them bit the special
interest of the readers without pens, VINO remarked
unanimously that Mrs Lee was Obviously moro
free from comment than she would he III England.
that Miss Dare was intOlerably vulgar. aud that
Gertrude. IN " Tho Europeans" Tor all her sepd-
Iateness was altogether o lady
Then. besides these sources OF interest, there -
the greater one.-the interest felt by almost all
women in what IL essentially triumph OF beauty,
yiudcation OF the idea that 1t - power llke
genius. ana p gift, ike the capacity TO keep an
audience hanging silent on your toneue surely inc
most enjoyable of the Creators gifts. All women
even the uglicst feel that beauty is n weapon on
their side the battle of life; Ii ke to see 1t exert
force and when il IS great and, So TO speak be-
yOnd criticism, admire 1t with genuine hoaitlhc5s'
Eeartiness rs real that which mon show I'D their
admiration for strength manifested III any conSpIc
mons