New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-09

,orr ranorations have unconscoulsly perhaps,
but decisively, fixed the standard. thai an ouo-
slider admitted for the first time necessarily
betravs himself to be an outsider; heredlty has
done nothing for him. Tact qufckness OF per-
ception the art of conforming must stano 10 hini
in the place of those ancestors who failed to Trans
nit to him qualities they did not possess nc
must talk as other people talk or hold MS TONGUE
The least arrogance, the least seI-asser'ion, INV
least hint of q notion on his par1 'na' Ii. :,
present in a missionary spirit, OF - ilnpe".'
TO supply any deficiencies he may opser'e ~
others s fatal It. is one of the virtues of heredity
that it not only nourshes by transmission' ou,
sunnrcsses lie who possesses these inherited
irtnitiorc NAV or NAV not number among them
n genius for putting his thoughts into fascinating
.,oooh What he is certain to possess IS the
rou,or of saving nothing at the right moment.
Tho renose which stamps the caste OF we're ue
vo-e &c n renose of mind as well as or body'
Tho nrosence of American women IN LONDON
sooiatv has had an influence on conversation Us
IL has on other things. Youth ana beauty anu
cleverness are often to be FOUND IN thc s'Ai'
nerson: it would be wonderful IL they were ho'
N he found in the same group Inc hnnerie =,
Girl who marries in England has begun lie eaf"el
than her English cousin. She has met men anu
even talked to them while yet unmarried a thins
which few English girls venture to DO. one naa
nrobablv lived in Paris: part OF her educa'ion
is French: she knows three OF the great capi'aS
of the world; her ideas are not bounded ny .n'
horizon of Mayfair. She is fresh, original inue'
nendent She cannot always be CLEVER pu' sne
has been taught to think for herself anu ~ =.
was there more apt pupil IN that sciehce' 49,
all. perhaps she was not born into respeco io'
rank or even for royalty. and she catches oneio'
-
eontiol n social successln London as much az
on,,,rhere in the world-as we'll to intellectual
freedom II was always said that the secrc,
or ono secret of American popularity IN royai
iro1os ,vas in this American freedom from tile
nurelv conventional notion about royalty "nicn
nrevaiIs in England girl from New-fo rk talked
70 the Prince of Wales as if royalty had no more
,iobts than republicanisnl. She spoke her mihu
as she expected the Prince TO speak HIS uon
,now that he always did, but he was ueisn'eo
bv the rirl's frankness. IT is many years sihoe
no hecan TO covet American society, ana tlere h"'
never been time when there was not SONIC one
or more American women who. IN the curren,
nbrase Of London, had to be asked IL you wal'eo
the Prince. ~ x,o++or
7 saw nothing Of other aspects OF the mauter
IT, is the question of conversation ana Vi .n'
influences of American women on the cohVers'OioA
Of London society, which alone conceiho 10 "
nresent OF course, these young girls anu u'ee'
Young married ladies who had found OUT now u
omuse His Royal Highness found inntators' iio"
70 amuse His Royal Highness IS one OF 'ne Soo,"
problems of the United Kingdom; single soiu
ton of the problem is not enough iC Is 49,
ondipg sories of novel answers to this ever-recur
ring connndrum which have to be dis covered OF III
wanted nv somebody The English ought 10 D'
-, - +boir American EinsWOm,n for helping
.bo,, +o co many am not sure that they are
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