Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-26
ANGLOMANlA IN NEW YORK.
How Gen. Badeau's Work Has Inaug-
urated n Cure.
Especial Correspondencel

Especial Correspondence.l
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-A healthful social
symptom visible here is the beginning Of
reaction against the anglomania, from
which certain circles have so long suffered.
Servile and ridiculous as is has always
been in the eyes Of the community in
general they seem to have had no suspicion
of it until recently. Nor would they have
had any but for the fragrant violations of
common courtesy and common decency on
the part of many Englishmen whom they
have entertained lavishly and deferred to be-
yond all reason They have discovered that
most Of their British guests accept their hos
FATALITIES as matters of course, as tributes
from interiors TO superiors, and that they
never dream Of aught like reciprocating
when their American "friends" happen to be
Oh British soil. In truth, these are apt to be
snubbed in any advances they may make,
and treated very shahbily by the persons
they have placed, on this side OF the sea,
under great social obligation. Moreover, the
insolence, the downright insults that have
been offered to different New York families
by their traLSatlantc cousins have had
their effect
A writer commenting on this disease says:
-One shameful example Of this was the pres
ence OF the Duke Of Sutherland with his mis-
tress at a wed,ling breakfast on the occasion
of his daughters marriage, given by Dur
former minister TO the court of st. Cloud.
This studied aftront seenis incredible: but
there appears to he no doubt of it The duke
ought to have been publicly horsewhipped
for the brutal hit Of hlackguarriism, and it is
a pity that he was not. It would have served
as a salutary precedent for the proper treat
ment Of noble lords under such circumstances.
Similar instances, though none quite so
atrocious, are not uncommon, and even New
York anglomaniacs are getting cured of the
distemper. The worm has been trodden upon
until it has turned. Hencetorth visiting
Englishmen will be likely To find change in
some of the persons here who have been po-
lite to them TO a point of fawning, and who
have hitherto so overdone the duties of hospi-
tality The average Briton is a good deal Of
a bully, and the best cure Of his bul yins is to
bully him in turn. He will entertain sim
cere esteem for America and Americans
when they resent, as they should, any infrac-
ton of his Of the laws of good breeding"
The articles on aristocracy in England by
Gen Adam Badeau, recently published by a
syndicate of newspapers, have doubtless done
NuIC- ever
written about the English has been so timely
and salutary these articles. They have
done more to destroy anglomania than all
other means combined, because they give an
impartial and thorough presentation of aris-
tocracy. Gen. Badeau's style is as simple and
forceful as Goldsmith's
The author has had opportunities of study
ing his subject on its native heath not often
n l.
greatest service rendered hy Gen. Badeau's
book is the truthful showing ne gives
of the enslsved condition of the upper
class Englishwomen- He says in plain
words: "A woman Is a nobody in English
mems eyes" This fact has been known to
those untainted with anglomania for a long
time, and in estimating the civilization of the
mother country it is we'll to bear it in mind.
Gen. Badeau says:
Il knew a dowager whose husband had been
called the wealthiest comnoner in England,
who was left e., 900 year. though he willed
away millions A woman is a nobody in Eng
lishmen's eyes. The husband had been fond Of
his wife, but it did not occur to him to pro-
vide her with the state to which she had been
accustomed for lifetime.
The daughters OF great houses prepare for
their fate from the beginning. They never
TtlSn ullltss tHcy mari y II tIlct C1ililOt St-
cure a husband they club together when the
father dies, and keep up a little establishment
in All obscure way; or the queen gives some
Of them, out Of charity, rooms at Kensington
palace or Hampton court, or some other asy-
lum for decayed aristocrats. You will find
there women Of Oldest lineage pinched for
theB dinners and their gloves, whose early
lives were spent in the most sumptuous struc-
lures and splendid style that this world
knows"
The author is as impartial as he is severe.
He shows the pleasing side of the aristocracy,
and the examples Of real nobility that he
found among them He describes an Irish
and English peer, whom he calls "a noble
man indeed in a manner that wins ones
highest admiration. But he says of him, II
insist that this-I wish might call him friend
would have been just as much of a noble
man if he had been born an American and
democrat He was one of natures noble
men" G. G..