Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-19

An Attempt to Explain Why So Many
 American Girls Turn in That Direc-
 tiOn.
 From the St. James Gazette
 Many people seem to be exercised in their minds as to why American girls marry Eng lishmen, and they seek the reasons far and wide. It has, for instance, been asserted that it is because Englishmen are handsomer than Americans, a statement that could only emanate from an English mind, as any one well acquainted with Americans and their inmost ideas can st once perceive. One of them observed to the present writer: "When I landed at New York Git was after year. absence) was perfectly ashamed of mysels fer staring at the men the way I did, but f couldn't help It. I could not take my eyeI of them; they seemed to me too beautiful for anything after those," Sc.
 And yet we prefer to marry Englishmen, and I am told that we do so in ever-increasing numbers. Why is this, since American men are so handsomes In the first place there is the natural tendency of women to be ats tracted by the new and the unusual. It seems to have been indigenious in America, as the ancient arrow maker found to his cost when Hiawatha came to WOO in the land of the Dacotahs:
 Comes youth with Haunting feathers, With his flute of reeds; stranger Beckons to the fairest maiden,
 ! And she follows where he leads her. Leaving all things for the strangerl Az with Minnehaha so with American girls who have less musical names; they | leave all things for the stranger. The Engs | lishman comes among us surrounded with | the pleasant fragance of mystery. We | don't know all about his people, nor where | he was at college, nor what his business is, | nor how much his last speculation brought | him. Indeed, he never talks about his busi- ' ak all Wh ia faaninaffDp A peculiarity; and then he listens to what we say with an air of absorption and delight \ which our young men never succeed in ac- | quiring. They also, no doubt, listen to our ! remarks, but they never give us their undi- | yided attention. There is always a wrinkle ! on their foreheads, or at all events an a1X~ | ious twist in the eyebrow which means that | they still have an eye on their business and are wondering how it is getting on while | they are away wasting their precious time I on our nonsense. The Englishman at pics ! nic will stretch himself on the grass at your fest content; and by and by he will say very slowly: "Ah, you know-this is what call happiness. should like it to go on forev- ! er" The American gets you ices with ex-
 emplary zeal and promptitude, and he finds for you the coolest nook wherein to rest; then he stands bolt upright against tree and looks furtively and anxiously at his I watch. After while he hopes ''the girls
 won't think of going for 8 ramble in the ! woods," because he must catch the half past five train back to town. He may be an Apollo to look at; but who would not prefer
 the lazy Englishman, be he never so plain
 The American men are not idle enough te
 make love with any chance of success against
 the leisurely European. MT. Max O'Rel
 strikes the keynote of American life when h' says everybody works-young, old, rich ane
 poor. The idle man who in Europe is called
 a gentleman, in Chicago is loafer. That is just it--work without ceasing Il making America one of the most prosperous