The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-21
TRAITORS TO THE FLAG.
American Women Abroad Whose Manners
Discredit the Whole Sex.

American Women Abroad Whose Manners
Discredit the Whole Sex.
At foreign watering place lately
dining-roOm was furnished with small
tables, at which men sat alone dining.
There came into this room the very
pretty American woman whom we will
call Lady Baskerville, with her hands
in her pockets. She walked fist to
one, then TO another of these tables,
sitting down to each to talk TO the men
with whom she was acquainted.
"How very American, said an Eng
lish lady who remarked 1T.
No" said All American lady pres
emit; ''that is treason to the American
FLAG. You would not see that thing
done at any American watering place. ;"
dash) has made the fortune of your
young country women with the Prince
of Wales" said the Englishwoman.
VERY well. then" said the Ameri-
can,
"'Treason doth never prosper; what's the
Why, If il prosper. none dare call it treason
They call it dash, do they? Let me
hope that some of our young country
women will continue TO fail 10 sue
ceed."
1t is probable that pe very self-con-
seriousness of the desire To be talked
about, even If one is abused. is inherent
in some natures. liz was that disease
which made Guiteau shoot Carrie Id,
and which gave US the spectacle of his
horrible conceit during his trial. Ii
would seem as if certain American
beauties who were filling Homburg.
Baden, Cannes. Paris. London and
Trouville with stories, were bitten by
this hopeless mad dog, whom no Pas
teur can vaccinate away. The virus
is in the blood; they must be notorious
or nothing!
Many are the examples TO the con-
trary. Certain young American Prin-
cesses at Rome are models of good con-
duct. Many quiet, amiable, well-bred
American wives of English nOblemen
are blushing for the vulgarity of their
compatriots. Many wife of an Amer
lean minister is shuddcring aS she sees
whom she is expected 10 receive land
call her cousin and OF whom she
hears the constant reprOach whispered
behind fan: ''Oh. she l. 50 very Amer
lean, YOU know.
This quiet lady from Vermont or
Massachusetts. who NAV be represent
ing America. longs to say: 'Oh, no.
she is more unlike my America than
any other country. and vet she has 10
learn, as we all do who travel. that
there is a development on the conti-
nent of American cccentricity in GER
tain women which we never see at
home. And it is worth asking why. I'm
the first place, Ignorance of conven-
tionality is the first and final cause of
many of the sins. A woman comes from
some circle which il not considered the
best i'm America; by her beauty and
''good clothes" she attracts attention
at foreign watering place: she finds;
soon that thc mora she il unlike other
people the more men notice her. She
accordingly makes Il rare show of her
self, gaining Il false position, which
lasts her perhaps two >casons; or. if
she is very lucky and has money. il
perhaps buys her an impecunious no.
bic and title. She soon IuarrelS with
the gentleman thus landed. and then
pursues the career of titled advcn-
turess. which some women have rem
dered very conspicuous aud somewhat
profitable To themselves. Bat although
every city teens with advcnturrsscs.
the American adventures does some
thing which shocks European ideas at
every turn, and her whole country hats
to suffer for it. The best and the most
delicate, the most peaceful and the
most refined American woman i
classed in certain general sense with
those women who are traitors to the
flag.-MrS. ShervO0d. in Boston Trdc-
elIer.