Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-11-20
TRAITORS TO THE FLAG.
American Women Abroad whose Msnncrs
Discredlt the Whole sex,

| American Women Abroad whose Msnncrt
Discredit the Whole Sex,
At a foreign watering place lately {
dining-room was furnished with small
tables, at which men sat alone dining
There came into this room the yer,
pretty American woman whom we will
call Lady Baskerville, with her hands
in her pockets. She walked iIst 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 an American lady pres
ent .'that is treason TO the American
flag. You would not see that thing
done at any American watering place. p"
"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 nglishwoman.
VERY WE'LL them said the Ameri-
can,
"Treason doth never prosper; what's tho
reasony
why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason
They call it dash, do theyp 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-
sciousncss of the desire to be talked
about, oven if one is abused, is inherent
in some natures. 1t was that disease
which made Guiteau shoot Garfield,
and which gave us the spectacle of his
horrible conceit during his trial. 1t
would seem as if certain American
beauties who were filling Homburg,
Baden, Cannes, Paris, London aud
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-brcd
American wives of English noblemen
are blushing for the vulgarity of their
eompatriots. Many wife of an Amer
lean minister is shuddering as she sees
the rouged, vulgar, and loud American
whom she is expected to receive "and
call her cousin, and of whom she
hears the constant reproach whispered
behind a fan. "Oh, she Is SO very Amer
lean, you know"
This quiet lady from Vermont or
Massachusetts. who may be represent
ing America, longs to say; "Ohi no,
she is more unlike my America than
any other country, and yet she has 10
learn, as we all do who travel, that
there is a development on the conti-
nent of American eccentricity in cer-
tain women which we never see at
home. And it is worth asking why. In
the first place, Ignorance of conven-
tionalty 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
at u 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 false position, which
lasts her perhaps two seasons; or, if
she is very lucky and has money, it
perhaps buys her an impecunious no
Die and title. She soon quarrels with
,hc gentleman thus landed, and then
Dursues the career of titled adycn-
,urcss, which some women have rem
iered very conspicuous and somewhat
to themselves. But although |
very city teens with adventuresses,
he American adventures does some
hing which shocks European ideas at
very turn, and her whole country has |
o suffer for it. The best and the most |
lelicate, the most peaceful and the
most refined American woman is |
,lassed in a certain general sense with
hose women who are traitors to the
lag. Mrs. Sherwood, IN Boston IraU-
Tier.