Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-05-30

An Attempt to Explain Why So Many
American Girls Turn in That
Direction.
[St lanes Ga azettel

Many people seem to be exercising their
minds as to why American girls marry
Englishmen, and they seek the reasons far
and wide. 1t has, for instance, been assert
ed that it is because Englishmen are hand
somer than Americans, a statement that
could only emanate from an English mind,
as any one we'll acquainted with Ameri-
cans and their inmOst ideas can at once
perceive. One of them observed to the
present writer: when landed at New
York (it was after years absence) 1 was
perfectly ashamed of my self for ST. ring at
the men the way did, but couldn't help
it. l could not take my eyes off them,
they seemed to me too beautiful for any
thing after those, etc. And yet we prefer
to marry Englishmen, and l am told that
we do so in ever-jncreasing numbers. Why
is this, since American men are so hand
some? In the first place there is the
natural tendency of women to be attracted
by the new AND unusual II seems to
have been Indigenous in America as the
ancient arrow maker found to his cost
when Hiawatha came TO WOO in the land
of the Dacotahs.
Comes youth VITA Haunting feathers,
With his flute of reeds q stranger
Wanders piping through the village,
Beckens 10 the 1alrest maiden,
And she follows where he leads her,
Leaving all things for the stranger.
AS with Mlnnehaha so with American
girls who have less musical names; they
leave all things tor the stranger. The
Engllshman comes among us surrounded
with the pleasant fragrance of mystery.
We don't known all about his people, nor
where he was at college, nor what his busi-
H. IS IS, nor how much his last speculation
brought him Indt ed, he never talks about
his business at al, which is quite too fasci-
mating popularity; and then he listens to
what we say with an air of absorption and
delight which our young men never sue
ceed in acquiring. They also DO doubt,
listen to our remarks but they never give
us their undivided attention. There is al
ways wrinkle on their foreheads, or at all
events an anxious twist in the eyebrow
which means that they still have an eve
on their business and are wondering how
it Is getting on while they are away wasting
their precious time on our nonsense.
THE ENGLIsHMAN AT A PICNIC
will stretch himself on the grass at your
feet and smoke his cigarette lazily in
maoifest content, and by and by he will
say very slowly: "Ah, you know-this is
what l call happiness. 1 should like it to
go ON forever" The American gets you
ices with exemplary zeal and promptitude,
and he finds for yOn the coolest nook
wherein to rest; then he stands bold up-
r1g1t against tree, and looks furfiyely
anu auxlously at his watch. After a while
he hopes the girls won't think of going
for a ramble In the woods" because he
must catch the half past 5 train back to
TOW q. He may be an Apollo to look at,
bu' WHO would not prefer the lazy Eng
ilsL man, be he nevel so plain? The
American men are not idle enough to
make love with any chance of success
against the leisurely European. Mr. Max
ORell strikes the keynote of American
life when he says every body works
young, old, rich and poor. The idle man
who IN Europe is called gentleman, in
Chicago is loafer. That is just it-work |
without ceasing is making America one of |
the most prosperous, but also one of the !
most unbeautifui lands imaginable. No |
body, either rich or poor, has time to idle;
and nobody seems to realize that it is only |
In ldleness and leisure, or at least in cessa- |
ton from the pursuit of wealth, that any,
hing beautiful will be evolved out of |
either brain CT hand.
PURGATORY AND PARADISE.
There is another point to be considered. |