Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-02
Anglo-American Marriages.

DO OUR GIRLS CHOOSE ENGLIsHMEN BECAUSE
THEY HATE GooDy-GooDY YOUNG MEN?
From the 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 solu-
ton by inquiring: Why should the rich and
titled Englishman fly from the maidens of his
native land and seek a wife on the other shore
of the Atlantic? AS long as the question is ap-
preached from that side the true answer will
be sought in vain. This writer may prove that
it is because American girls are the prettier;
that one will demonstrate that it is because
American papas come down handsomely; a
third will insist that il is because the American
girl is the most stylish, independent, better in
formed, chic. None Of these answers will
cause any one to change his opinions. All who
have written on the question have approached
1t from the wrong side. The real question 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 be-
cause the latter has set himself up as the per-
feet husband. We have our doubts whether
any daughter of Eve would willingly marry a
man whom she thought to 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 through his representative
press. In our journalistic experience we have
read many hundred times in American news
papers and magazines that American men are
not only the best of husbands but that they
are models which men of other nations NAV
aim to reach, but which they never will, tire
quires no great knowledge of womankind TO
tell US that 1.-THE lady intellect revolts at the
idea Of marrying monster of perfection The
American man has, in a word, overdoiie the
business of self-puffery. The rich American
girl, having q mind OF her own. constitutes
herself the judge Of the relative desirable
ness Of husbands, and she seems to be more
and more frequently coming to the conclusion
that the EnglishmaIl, protesting to be only OF
flesh and blood. and OF good deal Of each, il
a more satisfactory partner for life than Is the
perfect American.
The American girl can find plenty of support
for her opinions by simply observing what
passes around her. She sees American young
men wholly given up to imitation of English.
men-principally as respects their vices and
| defects. She finds that young man with sir
| generations OF American ancestry behind him
can be made happy for week by the sug.
gestion that she has mistaken him for an
Englishman. Naturally she comes to the con.
| tryman almost worships must be the superior
being. The choice seems to her, ON the strength
of the American mans own Judgment, TO b
one between gold and pinchbeck. Havine
travelled thus far by means Of her reasoning
powers, she proceeds to apply her knowIedge
TO practice. When she meets an eligible
Englishman she waves lag 70 him. He o
course capituiates. Wit. such marvellous art Il
the affair managed that to the end Of his life b
remains under the delusion that he was ths
captor and she the suxrendering party
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