Huntsville gazette., 1886-11-20
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 first 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 it.
NO said an American lady pres
/ ent; "that is treason to the American
flag. You would not see that thing
done at any American watering place. :
''Yet that sort of boldness Eve call it
dash) has made the fortune of your
Young country women with. the Prince
Of Wales,'' said the Englishweman.
Very well, then said the Ameri-
can,
"Treason doth never prosper; what's the
reason?
Why, if it 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 to sue
ceed."
1t is probable that the very self-con-
scousness Of the desire to be talked
about, even if one is abused, is inherent
in some natures. 1t was that disease
which made Guiteau shoot CARTEL Id,
and which gave us the spectacle of his
horrible conceit during his trial. 1t
would seem as if certain American
beauties who were filing 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! -, 4.
Many are the examples to the con-
trary. Certain young American Prin-
ccsses at Rome are models of good con-
duet. Many quiet, amiablc, well-bred
American wives of English noblemen
are blushing for the vulgarity of their
compatriots. Many wife Of an Amer
lean minister is shuddering as she sees
the rouged. vulgar. and loud American
whom she is expected 10 receive. and
call her cousin,'' and of whom, shet
hears the constant reproach whispered
behind fan: "Oh, she IS SO very Ainer-~
lean, you know" "a eft.
This quiet lady from Vermont or
Massachusetts, who may BIZ represhnt-'
ing America, longs. to say: <tiOif. no.
she is more unlike my America thapa
any ethcr country and yet she has TO.
learn. as we all do who travel, Chat
there is development on the conti--.
nent of American cccentriCitY. in GER
tain women which we never see at
home. And it is worth asking why. In
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 is not considered the
best in -America by her beauty and
''goOd clothes she attracts attention 4
at a foreign watering place: she finds
soon that the more she is unlike other
people the more men notice her. She
accordingly makes a rare show Of her
self, gaining a false position, which,
lasts her perhaps two seasons; or, il
she is very lucky and has money, it
perhaps buys her an impecunious no.
DIG ana Il tltlc. one soon 9uatIcIS VIII
the gentleman thus landed, and then
pursues the career OF a titled adyen-.
turess, which some women have rem
dered very conspicuous and somewhat
profitable to themselves. Bus although
every city teens with adventuresscs,
the American adventures does some
thing which shocks European IDEAS at
every turn, and her whole country has
to suffer for it. The best and the most
delicate, the most peaceful and the
most refined American woman is
classcd in certain general sense with |
those women who are traitors to the |
ffao. Mrs. SheriU00d, iis Boston 1raC- |
eiler.