The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-05-05
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
A FEW ODD SCRAPS OF INTEREST
FROM NEW YORK.
English Americars and HOW Ihey AP
near 70 Natives "A Talk with Writer
og Ja,ape,e Iiteraturr--A Case of Mind
Manipulating Matter.
Especial Correspondence-l |

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Especial correspondence
NEW YoRK. April 28 This city contains
a large and constantly increasing class Of
En,liSb- Am ay.icans men and women who
were born Americans and have lived abroad
until thew became English and are now back
on their native soil. sneeriag at it. Insuf,er-
able creatures they are, wherever fou I'd.
Everything American is contemplate in
their ewes. and they don't have politeness
enough to keep their contempt unspoken-
ssIn England Is the phrase with which all
their as .ertions begin ''In England nobody
would think of doing this or saying that"
"In England it would not be tolerated" or
"In England it is not the case, !" and so on
| met one of them at the house of friend
recently. He was so dreadfully English that
he could hardly tolerate us Not only in
conversation, did he spit upon his native
land hut in manner he was the Eng
lishman throurh and through. While ex-
planning something he had seen somewhere
he whirled a buIsch of lead pencils from the
table to the floor. well-bred American
would have gallahtlv gathered them up. Not
he. Being English, he would let them lie
there till a servarit picked them up Then he
wasn't enough af an American to let ladies
talk He interrupted them whistled them
down the wind, and in every possible man.
ner gave them to understand that man was
superior being and woman mere nobody.
And vet he wasn't cloi, and wouldn't want
70 be nut down as cad. His name repre-
sents lear. .iing. +ravel, literary ability and
ever Sc many other things worth striving for.
And he is a soufherner born, too Think Of
a Gallant southrdn be ng anything but court
ly and chivalrous to ladies'! Originally this
Engllsll-.Anerican was very Agreeable per
SON He hal some respect for the opinions
and fre Jugs of others. mis- manners were
modest and his conversation pleasing. Twea-
ty wears in England, with only flying visits
to America, has Anglicized him without in
the least improving him.
II English-Americans were content to re-
main abroad they might be as English as
they please and offend nobody; but when
they get old and poor they come back here
and wrangle the remnant of their lives away
because America isn't England. Henry
James writes books to prove that it is a great
misfortune not to have been born in Eng
land The New York Anglo-maniAcs give
up their lives to putting forth the same idea.
The men are more uncomfortable than the
women Somehow we expect a man to have
patriotism by nature, and when he goes
abroad TO a monarchy that America has had
to whip into goeh behavior and kotows to its
customs and rnaJarassa-a..Ss--.;eA~- -lsa- 1--q
worshiping American women; but we E1ust
despise the men.
New York is well favored with these Eng
lisb-Americans who are distinct from the
ordinary Anglo1maniac in having lived on
English soil half their lives, and are furious
il any one reminds them of their American
birth. They ars always reminding one that
they went abroad when "very young" and
were brought up in the English way.
have often remarked that New York il
exhaustless. Every day new matters Of I'M
terest pres mt themselves In company with
friend dropred into Japanese art store
the other day. The merchandise there dis
played represented one of the many collec-
tons of art vtlluables to be seen here IN
New York the work of some man or woman
fired with hn insane love Of art
which poverty or death scatters- We
looked over the curios, bent before
the majestic stdtue of Buddha, smiled at the
grotssque devils and shifted the incense. The
most interesting things in the large collection
to us. however, was the owner of the col
lection his Wifi and their nine children. He
| is Edward Gresye writer of books on Jap
anese subjects. an Englishman, with a fluent
tongue as well as a graceful pen. His wife,
fair-faesd Englishwoman, is In regular
partnership with him in literary work. as
well as in The ownership of the collection.
ayes, he said, looking at her gentle face
with admirin,E eyes, aNelIie here helps me
write ali the bbess, and l put my name TO
/ them, because she will have it so.
Then they Went on to tell something Of the
life of a maa and woman with nine children.
who depended upon tine pen for bread, and
all the other requirements of civilized life
! They had beeiA in South America and Japan
some years, aid they had known what it was
| to depend wholly upon their literary work
without any Harmanen position On assured
| market Think of the shoes for nine chill
| 'hqn said thb rother with smile "Well,
! We never lost heart through it all, and they
ara welcnme every one of them" said the
father Welcome, they surely were, for
they lowered round both father and mother
like butterflies, caressing themanti hanging
/ to them with affectionate freedom
They told how in the days when they were
| poor they put the babies to bed and then
wrote on their books till 2 AMI o'clock in
the morning. Only writer can understand
how courageous must be the soul which
brayely fights on under such circumstances,
VITA the penas weapon, and only an nm
cercain literary market to appeal TO when
| the work is done
This COURAGE has been rewarded, for sue
cess came with such earnest and honest
wooing Mi. Greeye's last book IA Captive
of Love drew an expression of thanks from
the Emperor and Emre ) of Japan, ard Is
being Translated into German by Herr A.
Hensel, Of konigsberg Prussia. Japanese
literature Is "a comparatively fresh field and
Mr. Gree,e cultivate it with great skin,
aud the min children are in clover.
Their IS ONE fgar. in New York VINO
should be a les on 10 macontents with whole
AM healthy bodies and that is Marshall p
" ller. the character sketch artist Every
body knows him, and everybody likes him.
At every concert, literary entertainment or
private gathering where refined amusement
Is sought alter, the little character ske cher
is pretty sure to be, and very sure to please
everybody by his original humorous recita-
lions | call him little, although he is a
man, for alas, disease or accident in child
hood brought upon him curvature Of the
spine, ana ne Is no taller than a boy of TO-
Ordinarily those afflicted with this trouble
are nl7rost, melancholy and iIl-tempered
MI Wilder i sunshins itself His face is 50
bright ane happy that he looks like a
bird In spite of this bodily afaiction
which would have prevented many q
spirit froIn ever irving its powers or
developns its endowment-, he has made a
sua e rs profession, place fof himself
IN so md finds life PLEASANT He might
be cited Il au illustration OF the triumph Of
mind oYer matter
He says Ne never was gloomy in his life His
father, IIracfieing physician, Is bis good
conlrade alld chum They are two boys To-
gether, though one is white haired and elder
", and thf other a child in figure and
youth in hAart EnBoS qrtvFR
Spring appears IL have come Ia ,tay
The farmers welcome the on..ble
weather and are taking advantage og II IL
/ CT their early crops planted Winter
grain is reported 10 have eseaped the
severity pf the winter. and hereaboats
tie fields look reinarkalae wau Also
the grass fields foretell 4 gobd ,r.,, /.