Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-12-24
THE AMERICAN Crp,
How an English Gentleman yis~.
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How an English Gentiema,
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Miss Baylor, in her cry clsv..
entertaining novel, "0n Both M
gives MS some fine, spirited, man
ures, in which she contrasts RnS'
and American character
said to her credit, with entire fail
to both nationalities. adhea
MIR. Heathcote, and ELEGANT 80
compIished young Englisbman y
having safely eluded the wills VIC
match making British matron. v is
eligible daughters, comes to VIII
and In a charming family of Rai.tIea,
reans, where he is received with a
inc hospitality and allowed ss1a'
walk and talk ad hbitum W., tns
daughter OF the house, finds himsar. s
the other horn OF the dilemma 70
THE weight OF excessive aI;,4.,.
suddenly slipped off him tMr, H..M
cotot, like the albatross from that"
OF the ancient mariner, ,eaying nv
thankful and happy man. In
he had established himself frml' es
Mr.. Bascombe's declined to accom9 y
his uncle to Virginia, and de6p;s'l!
settled in his own mind that he wn.i,
take the step matrimonial-tha 49,
from the sublime, well not ALWAYS
be ridiculous. With this resol1,is@
he naturally thought that thegreass,.
obstacle to success had been remoysS |
but he was soon disillusionized ~
had already come to sec that Ana; |
can girls were very rlucn in the ham, |
OF being gracious to everybody, Al
saying pretty and pleasant thin. |
with no thought of an hereafter. AZ
that they didnot live with st. GeorCa's
HanoverSquare, or its American eon;y'
alent, Trinity Church, New York, stamn
ed on the mental retina. Miss Bars.
combe was very nice'to himself, but 4.
was quite as nicetoa dozen other men
- twas quite clear that il therew Ma,
to be any wooing done, he wouldhays
to do it-go every step OF the way
himself, with no assistance from MIS-
Bascombe. How on earth am | IA
show her that / care for her?' h
thought. Other men send her dozens
of bonnets, and box after box OF Az.
pensive sweets, without end, and thew
come to see her continually and taxi,
her about every where, and are en-.
tirely devoted to her. | wonder what
fellows do over here when they are
serious? How do they make them.
selves understood when they 20 onthis
way habitually? 1t is a most extraor.
binary state OF affairs!
Nothing seems to mean anythin,
here, it is worse than being
in England, where everything means
something. No, it isn't either,
! VOW that when | am at the
Clinton's, in Surrey, | scarcely dare
offer the girls SO much az q muffin,
and ii | ask the carroty one, Beatrice,
the simplest question, she blushes and
stammers as If were proposing out Of
hand. But what am ! TO do? can't
sing and take to screnading Edith on
moonlit nights with a guitar and a
blue ribbon around my neck. can't
push her into The river that | may
pull her out again. J dare say there
is nothing for it but to adopt the
American method-enter with about
fifty Others for a sort of sentimental
s~teeplechase, elbow or knock every
other fellow out of the way, IN the
running, work awfully hard to pleas
the girl. and get in by half a length i
one wins at all. There is no ieein.
sure OF her until one is coming back
from the altar, evidently"
To have even Internationally draw
this soliloquy from Il rather ~conceitet
young Englishman, whose attitude
toward the g~entler sex had hitherto
been, to say the least, evasive, wasnt
small triumph for Miss Bascombe, VII,
had succeeded in bewildering and as
tonishing Mr.. Heathcote even NOR
completely than Miss Bijou Brow
had done his sister, when she called
young man OF her acquaintance |"
perfectly lovely fellow" pronounce
his nose "a dream" and finally a.
knowledged to corresponding wit
twelve OF his ilk. addIngthat she ger
orally read these letters to Pepper,
who laughed fit to kill himself oy'
them"
1t is pleasant indeedt to see the Anne
lean girl placed before us in n props
light, in view OF the many caricaturt
in both English and American tictlo1
in which she has played a prominer
part. Miss Baylor places the Englls
daisy, Ethel Heathcote, best e n
our own American wild roses, an
demonstrates quite clearly that, wit
all the freedom that IL social Gu
toms permit, the American grl Is qul
as modest, ingenious, womanIy al
true hearted as her English siste
whose every action is hedged in !
conventionalities, and whose eyel
step is attended by a chaperon.