The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-22
MARRYING ABROAD.
One of Our Fair Country Women on
Fascinations of a Briton.


Fascinations of Briton.
an american Lady in the London Echo.
Many people seem to be exercised in their
minds as to why American girls marry
Englishmen, aud they seek the reasons far
and wide. 1t has, for instance, been asserted
that it is because Engiishmen are hand
somer than Americans statemen that
could only emanate from an English mind,
as anyone we'll acquainted with Americans
and their inmost ideas can at once perceive.
One of them observed to the present writer:
when landed at New York lit was after
a years absence).I was perfectly ashamed of
myself for staring at the men the way 1
did, but couldn't help it. could not take
my eye off them, they seemed to me too
beautiful for anything after those" ETC.,
etc. And yet we prefer to marry English
men, and | am told that we do so in ever
increasing numbers. Why is this, since
American mon are so handsomea In the
first place, there is the natural tendency
of women to be attracted by the new and
the unusual. 1t seems to have been :
digenoui in America, as the ancient arrow
maker found to his cost when Hia watha
came to woo in the land of the La
cotahs
Comes youth with Haunting feathers,
With his flute of reeds; stranger
Wanders piping through the village,
Beckons to the fairest maiden,
And she follows where he leads her,
Leaving all things for the stranger!
As with Minnehaha so with American
girls who have less musical names; they
leave ali things for the stranger. The
Englishman mes among us surrounded
wi the pleasant fragance of mystery. We
don't know all about his people, nor where
he was at college, nor what his busine is,
nor how much his last speculation brought
him. Indeed, he never talks about his bust
ness at all, which is quite too fascinating
a popularity, and then he listens to what
we say with an air of absorption and de-
light which our young men never succeed in
acquiring. They also, no doubt, listen to
our remarks, but they never give us
their undivided attention. There is always
a wrinkle on their foreheads, or at all events
an anxious twist in the eyebrow, which
means that they still have an eye on
their business aud are wondering how
il is getting on while they are away
wasting their precious time on our non
sense.
ROMANCE HATES A HURRY.
The Englishman at picnic will stretch
himSelf on the grass at your feet aud smoke
his cigarette lazily in manifest content; and
by-and-by he will say, very slowly, "Ahl
you know-this is what | call happiness. |
should like it to go on forever" The Ameri-
can gets you ices with exemplary zeal and
promptitude, and he finds for you the cool
est nook wherein to rest; then he stands bolt
upright against the tree and looks furtively
and anxIously at his watch. After while
he hopes 1.-THE girls won't think of going for
a ramble in the woods, " because he must
catch the $50 o'clock train back to town.
He may be an Apollo to look at, but who
would not prefer the lazy Englishman, be
he never so plaina The American men are
not idle enough to make love with any
caance of success against the leisurely
European. Max O'Rell strikes the keynote
of American life when he says everybody
worKS-young, old, rich and pJor. The
idle mau wao in E rope is called gentle
man, in Chicago is called loafer. That
is just it-work without ceasing is making
America one of the most prosperous. but
also one of the most unbeautiful lands i'm
aginable. Nobody, either rich or pc r, has
time to idle, and nobody seems to realize
that it is only in idIeness and leisure,
or at least in cessation from the pursuit
of wealth. that anything beautiful will be
evolved out of either brain or hand.
MARRIAGE RAISES THE ENGLISH WOMAN.
There is particular reason why we like
England. We are more thought of here
when married than in our own country. In
America the girl, it is true, is paramount.
There she is the center of social life, while
over he the girl is only graceful and
pleasing figure of the background. But
marriage distinguishes the English woman,
it extingushes the American. To be
girl in America and matron in England
is to obtain the maximum of Difference
and homage. We are not averss to receiv-
ing both. Some people find in our sup
posed oadyism reason for our appe ir
ance here in England. Eat that is a ridic-
ulous reason to advance, since the number
of British mobiles who take Their titles
into the American market is exceedingly
small.
No doubt Americans do admire titled
persons to a certain extent, but merely be-
cause they are rare, and also because
they like to see a man distinguished by
something besides his mere cash value.
Hereditary mobiles poss IS this distinction
apart from their wealth and there
fore they receive a certain limited
amount of notice and admiration. These,
then, are some of the reasons why, in spite
of our somewhat aggressive patriotism,
we are content to become English wives.
The old country has so much that is beau
tiful to offer US; and here, without being
very rich, we can still realize our woman's
ideal of a refined, elegant and leisurely
home, where the clIef figure is not always
conspicuous by his absence. In these re-
spects we American wives have much to
gain by coming to England, and we lose
very little.