The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-07
ANGLO-SAXOES ABROAD
Careless American and the Well
Dressed Englishman---The IN
tidy English Lady and Her
Natty American Cousin

The American gentleman travels and
walks and dimes in the same suit of clothes,
and those of the elder sort are in the ever.
lasting broadcloth suit. Much wear has made
it shiny, usually. He is also careless-that is,
unDrecise-in his walk and bearing. Mind
you, l am not describing my friends whom 1
am meeting, but a great lot of Americans
whom 1 am daily seeing in public places. On
the other hand, when the American affects
dress he rather overdoes it. He makes q
point of it. He centres his mind so much
upon it that he lets the cat out of the bag and
says to the beholder: ''This get up is the
result of thought, not unconscious habit.n
The English gentleman is always well
dressed. He is dressed much the same as
every other English gentleman, and this is
certainly monotonous. But, to tho for
eigner, all life in England is monotonous.
Still, the English gentleman is neatly as well
us suitably dressed; his boots are clean and
his clothes and hat we'll brushed before he
makes his appearance in the morning. When
in Paris he has something to do more suitable
to his taste than sitting and smoking about
the hotels and public places.
But the American gentleman is q less con-
siderable factor in domestic and social life
than the American lady. And so it is that
the American lady takes her place easily,
gracefully, and has about her all the out
ward signs of her relative and advanced
position in the family and in society. In the
matter of dress the English lady cannot hold
a candle to her. Here is tho fact. The En-
glish lady does not NOW how to dress well.
She is the worst DIRE sed lady in Europe. She
goes to the extreme OF the American gentle
man. SIZE is careless and untidy on the one
hand, or she is "tlne" and smart on the
other. She wears no end of feather and rib
bons, velvet and lace. She is usually short
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and fuss.
Her American cousin is natty-she has
"just the thing" on usually that suits her,
and she appears neat and trim. She is quite
as well dressed as the French lady, and !
lean toward the opinion that the American
lady is the best dressed lady in the world.
Certainly when young she is the prettiest
and the most interesting. Dress is the out
ward sign. But not only the outward sign.
Mark this one; Here comes into table
d'hote a lady and a gentleman-this is the
order. The lady is slim in figure and refined
in features. She is neatly, indeed prettily,
dressed. She is usually unconscious and at
her ease. Just a little behind her, following
her up rather shyly, consciously i'll al
ease, is her husband, in the everlasting black
broadcloth suit. She has been sightseeing,
perhaps, and perhaps not. More likely he
has been sitting in the court of his hotel
talking business with his fellow countryman.
he comes to table just as he has left the
street or the hotel court. he follows his
wife with confident admiration and is dutifui
as all good husbands ought to be. Reverse
these conjugal relations as revealed in social
life and you have a picture of the English
man and wife. The gentleman takes tn,
lead, is as unconscious as any EnglishmaI
ever can be, is as much at his ease as al
Englishman ever is. He is well dressed
His clothes, whatever they are, have beer
well brushed, and his boots are clean ant
well fitting. He usually travels with half
dozen pairs. Now in this case it is the good
simple, home loving, rather dull, but relig
iously dutiful wife who enters the salon jus
behind the husband. She is very consciou
poor thing; she is in all sorts of colors an
ribbons and laces. Short or tall, she wear
the regulation cap, which has no grace O
truth in it