Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-10
ANGLO-AMERICAN MARRIAGES.
Do Cur Girls Choose Englishmen Because They
Hate the Goody-Goody Young Men?
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Hate the GOody-Goody Young Men?
Toronto Globe.
We have read scores of articles on the
Anglo-American marriage epidemic. In
every one of them the writer has striven
to reach a solution by inquiring: Why
should the rich and titled Englishman fly
from the maidens of his native land and
seek wife on the other shore of the At
lantie? As long as the question is APP
preached from that side the true answer
will be sought III vain. This writer
may prove that it is be-
cause American girls are the prettier;
that enc viii demonstrate that it is be-
cause American papas come down hand
someiy; third will insist that it Is be-
cause the American girl is the most styl-
ish, independent, better informed, chic.
None of these answers will cause any one
to change his opinions. All who have
written on the question have approached
it from the wrong side. The real ques-
ton is, not why Englishmen marry
American girls, but why American girls
marry Englishmen. With the question
stated correctly, the answer is not far to
seek.
In the first place, the American girl is
in active rebellion against the American
man because the latter has set himself up
as the perfect husband. We have our
doubts whether any daughter of Eve
would willingly marry man whom she
thought 70 be perfection-there is no
doubt whatever that she would not
marry man who sets himself up as the
best possible husband, and that is what
the American man is constantly doing
journalistic experience we have read
many hundred times in Ameri-
can newspapers and magazines
that American men are not only
the best of husbands, but that they
are models which men of other nations
may aim to reach, but which they never
will. 1t requires no great knowledge of
wOmankind to tell us that ''the lady in
tellect revolts at the idea of marrying
a monster of perfection. The American
man, has in WORD overdone the busI-
ness of self-puffery. The rich American
girl having a mind of her own, consti-
tutes herself the judge of the relative
desirableness of husbands, and she seems
to be more and more frequently coming
to the conclusion that the Englishman,
protesting to be only of flesh and blood,
and of good deal of each, is a more
satisfactory partner for life than is the
perfect American.
The American girl can find plenty of
support for her opinions by simply OBJ
serving what passes around her. She
sees American young men wholly given
up to imitation of Englishmen-princi-
pally as respects their vices and defects
She finds that young man with six gen
erations of American ancestry behind
him can be made happy for a week by
the suggestion that she has mistaken
him for an Englishman Naturally she
comes to the conclusion that the
Englishman, whom her countTyman
almost worships, must be the superior
being. The choice seems to her, on the
strength of the American MANS own
Judgment, to be one between gold
and pinchbeck. Having travelled thus
far by means of her reasoning powers,
she proceeds to apply her knowledge to
practice. When she meets an eligible
Englishman she waves flag to him. He,
of course, capitulates. With such mar
velous art is the affair managed that to
the end of his life he remains under the
delusion that he was the captor and she
the surrendering party.