Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
THE ENGLISH GIRL.
A Couple of Advantages She Possesses Over
the American Girl.

A Couple Of Advantages She Possesses Over
the American Girl.
Two points of advantages the English
girl possesses over the American girl,
observes travsier in the Boston Heard,
and these are precisely the gu alities that
particularly appear to men; she is more
romantic and more submissive. While
as full of sentiment as the ideal love let
ter tied with blue ribbon, still she re-
CARDS man as her lord and master. She
rarely dreams of disputing the suprema-
cy of husband, father, or even brother,
and her privilege and pleasure is to min
lister unto them. She is so effectionate
in her home circle that the average man
has only to be admitted there to straight
way fall head over heels in love with q
girl who worships her brother, is forever
kissing her fond father, and disputes
with her sister the honor and the delight
of warming the paternal slippers. Even
when of "high station" she takes her
turn in making the tea end preparing the
toast and experimenting the break
fast generally-a task which mamma
regulates to her daughters. The English
girl breathes this engaging air of domes-
ITCHY. Man doesn't say, "How she can
waltz; how well she looks at the opera;
how she SUR passes all of the other girls
in the cotilion!" No matter to what ad
vantage she may appear in evening dress
und der the soft radiance of the wax can
dies, what the most inveterate bachelor
whispers to himself is this: "By Georgel
what wife she would make! And what
homep
Edison's Latest Invention.
Mr.. Edison must be careful not to in
vent something which shall cause even
enlightened modern society to rise upon
him and threaten him with the stake
which was the portion of so many distin-
gLished innovators in darker days than
our own. There are already conserva-
tives in Europe who illuminate against
the phonograph as "irreverent" because
of its daring function of preserving and
perpetuating the voices of the loved and
lost. The wizard of Llewellvn Park, in
conversation with a reporter who solicit
ed his ideas on the subject of the pro-
jected worlds fair in New York city, said
he would take an acre of space il such
fair and completely cover it with his in
ventions, of which he has no less than
seventy now under way.
"One of the most peculiar and now
promising good results" said Mr.. Edison,
sis what may call far-sight machine"
By means of this extraordinary invention
he hopes to increase the range of vision
by hundreds of miles, so that, for in
stance, "a man in New York could see the
features of his friend in Boston with as
much ease as he could see a performance
on the STAGE" Chat" he added, "wouId
be an invention worthy prominent place
in the Worlds Fair, and / hope to have it
perfected long before 1892"
interviewing in England.
General Pryor tells an amusing story.
When he was in England defending the
Irish patriots, he was quite DESTROYS of
spreading his views before the English
public. It was much harder to get at an
English editor than at an American, but
finally communications were established,
and one evening there was a subdued
knock at the door of his room in the hotel.
"Come in" said General Pryor. The
door opened about six inches, and through
the aperture sided dilapidated speci-
men of humanity. Softly closing the
door, the dilapidated specimen put his
dilapidated hat on the floor, and, bowling
humbly, uttered: "GeneraI Pryor, l be-
ll0No. Les, L dH Geu6rGl EryOr, WQaG
can I DO for your" 81 am a
reporter, sir, and I was sent to
ask you if you would give your views
on the American aspect of the Irish ques-
tion." Everybody who knows General
Pryor well knows that he is one of the
most affable of men, and in this cgse he
meant to be particularly pleasant, for he
wanted to be interviewed. But forgetting
that he was not in New York, he followed
the usual practice of statesmen in this
country, and began with "My dear fell
low, really haven't anything to say, }" in
tending this, of course, as prelude to a
long conversation. What y as his aston
ishment when the specimen grabbed his
hat, genu1ected still more humbly than
before, calculated, Thank you, sir;
thank you, sir" and disappeared. To
have reporter give up the struggle so
quickly SO surprised the General that he
really sat in his chair parslyzed for the
moment, and before he could recover, the
Englishman had gone, and the interview
was lost.