Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09
How and Why They Succeed in Society and
Life.
London Standard.

London Standard.
The frequency with which Englishmen
! of distinction select their domestic part
ners from the United States may well set
people asking what it is that causes the
! occurrence. The fact that Lord Ran
lofph Churchill, Sir William Harcourt,
N .Ciemenceau, the Duke of Marlborough
and the successor of Count Moltke in
the important military post with which
bis great name is associated have
married American ladies may tempt
philosOphic inquirers TO 60 in search
of true and efficient cause Of the
occurrence, now brought still more into
prominence by the marriage of Mr..
Chamberlain. If we are to initiate
them, we might find certain number of
plausible explanations: but, at the end
of the exercise of our best ingenuity we
should have to confess ourselves puzzled.
That there are number of American
young ladies who are most attractive and
charming will readily be admitted; but,
without poSturing as outrageous patriots
in this respect, we are disposed to think
the English girls can hold their own
against even their fair American cousins
in the matter of good looks, and
decidedly outstrip them i'll the qualities
which most Englishmen regard as engag-
ing and irresistible The ideal of the
states Is, VIGOROUSLY, not quite the same
Us that which for the most part prevails
in this country, and we suspect it would
be found on searching and impartial in
vestigation, that the American standard
is less of what is usually meant by an
-,
other words, it is, like the Americans
themselves, more practical. Just rs, for
the most part, they educate their children
not SO much with the object of making
them fine scholars and cultured gentle
men, as of making them capable and
successful citizens, so, probably, they
aim, even unconsciously, ut preparing
girls not so much for a brief passage of
romance as for the long and unromantic
business of life. At the back of the headxS
as the phrase is, of most English girls
the idea that Lancelot, or Prince CharIS
ing, or some equivalent of those agree
able and seductive personages, is living
somewhere i'll the world; that it
would be delightful to meet
him, and that, conceivably, that
happy fate is reserved for them in par
ticular. In word, English girls are
what is called romantic, and American
girls, if romantic, are so in a less degree.
Like the rest of their race, they are edu-
Gated to understand and be in harmony
with the hard and somewhat cynical con-
ditions of their life. They have less
nonsense about them than English
girls. They are sensible women of the
world, knowing all about it - not east
ly deluded, and quite equal to the task of
confronting existence in all its various
phases.
Hence they enjoy considerable success
in society, even On this side of the ocean.
Society does not ask for q romantic dis
position, for refinement or delicacy of
temperament, but, ON the contrary, for
practical good sense, for certain BUSH
nesslike quality and for those giftsxsSSn1
enable people to succeed i'll de-
their fellow creatures. It
marked that American won
way where English :,
sessed of no greater
vantages, would fail. Thj
the former understand
of success better ans
themselves to them. Tn
women that stir the pass
the song of the poets; no
down to posterity as her
ers. But they have Il
succeed in London DIR,
their brothers succeed
stores'' in New York hd
same reason. We have
make excellent wives to-
the full glare of sociei
clever, capable assocf
domestic comDan ion