The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-08
ANEAST INDIAN VIEW
Of Men and Manners in the
United States.
AMERICAN GIRLS ARE PRETTY
And Have Piquaney of Their Own-Ths
Young Men Rejoice in the Days
of Their Youth.


of Their Youth.
Especial to THE HERALD-E Examiner Dispatch
New YORK, July 6.--The LONDON cores
pendent of the World has had an interview
with Rudyard Kipling, who little more
than year ago landed in San Francisco
from steamship from the Orient, and al
most Immediately began to write letters to
the most important newspaper in India,
giving his impressions of our country. If
these letters are ever republished in book
form or in any other form which will give
the great American public chance to get
at them, Rudyard kipling's name is Den
mis- so far as personal popularity in the
United States goes. He blazed away at us
with ferocity that throws far into the
shade Mrs. TrOllope, Dickens and Max
O'Reu combined. After stopping four
months in the United States, during which
time he experienced>a variety of sensa-
lions, from prayer meeting at Chautau0ua
to an interview with Mark Twain. Rud-
| yard hlpliGg went TO London He was
comparatively unknown, though a few of
! his writings IN India had been republished
this side of the water and had attracted
attention. To-day his books are piled desD
on all the railway news stands and con-
| splcuously exhibited in the shop windows
In the worlds metropolis Rudyard Kip
| ling has leaped at bound to the very top
| OF the literary ladder. For a time he
| threatened TO eclipse even the ubiquitous
| Stanley as the lion of the London season.
| Klpling, in answer to the correspond
ent's query, said ''Well, like the people
immensely, but in my letters to The
| Pioneer, in India l hurled twelve bar
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that Americans ever fully realized the dis
comforts that civilized traveller who
| visits them for the first time is obliged TO
submit to. Doubtless it is all well enough
when you are used to it. l want to go back
to America this year if | can. | met some
wonderfully nice people there.
The American girls are pretty-very
much so-with piquancy all of their own
and as impossible to describe as to resist.
! They are clever. They can talk; yet it is
said they can think Certainly they have
an appearance of so doing which is delight
fully deceptive. They are original. and
regard you with unabashed eyes as sister
might look at her brother They are in
structed, too, in the folly and sanity of the
male mind, for they have associated with
boys from babyhood, and can discerningly
minister to both vices or pleasantly snub
| the pOssessor.
'1hey are self possessed without parting
! with any tenderness that Is their sexS
right They understand they can take care
OF themselves. They are superbly indie
! pendent. There freedom is large and they
do NOT abuse it. They can GO driving with
young men and receive notes from young
men to an extent that would make an Eng
lsh mother wink with horror and neither
driver or driven has a thought beyond the
enjoyment of good time.
The young men of America rejoice in
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| yacht-race, etjoy prize fights aud cock
fights, the one openly, the other in secret;
they establish luxurious clubs; they break
themselves over hOrSehesh and other
things, and they are instant in a quarrel
| Incidentally l may mention that nine
American youths out of ten are heavily
handicapped by the abnormal weakness of
their heads. This is supposed to be
/ due to their nervous and highly strung
organization and in California, at least, the
brilliant dryness of the air lends color to
the superstition. Phlegmatic and spiritual,
| however, they manage to get flushed,
afable and drunk on astOnIshingly small
quantities. The American nation gets
drunk by easy stages. man takes nip
by luncheon time, while not really drunk,
he is In condition that no business man
ought to be in until after dinner.
Il like the newspaper men of your coun-
try, but my first experience with an Ameri-
can reporter in San Francisco was not en-
couraging. One of them grappled with me
| before had left the ship. What he wanted
to know was the area of India in square
miles. l referred him to Whitaker He
! had never heard of Whitaker; he wanted
1t from my own mouth, and 1 would not tell
| him. Then he SWerved off &c the details OF
journalism in the country, when l ventured
| to suggest that the interior economy of the
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worked it. He protested that this was the
very thing that interests US and said:
Have sou got reporters anything like our
reporters on the Indian newspapers we
have not, l said, and suppressed the thank
! God that was to my lips. why haven't
you.' said he. Because they would die
said''
(which of our principal cities impressed
you most." Mr.. Kipphng was asked.
New York, of course The city Of San
Francisco itself seemed 10 be pitched down
on the sand bunkers of the Biskiner des-
ert. About one-fourth it's ground IS re-
claimed from the sea and the remainder is
! ragged unthrifty sand hill held together
by the houses, From an English point of
view there has not been the least attempt
at grading those hills. The cable cars have,
for all practical purposes, made San Fran
cisco the same level. particularly watched
young California, and saw that at least it
was extensively dressed, cheerful in man
ner and self-asserting in conversation
The maidCns were of generous build, large
and well groomed. Kearney street at 9
o'clock seemed to my strange eyes to level
all distinctions of rank as emphatically as
the grave. had al experience of course,
with your bunco steerer, one of the true,
old California style. He did not secure m
for his prey, but after an hour or two CON
versation with him 1 readily understood
how it was that year after year, week
after week the American bunco steerer Sc
cures his prey.
81 also met, of course, some of your rich
western millionaires. [ found these per-
sons harmless in their earliest stages
That is to say, man worth three or four
million dollars may bea good talker, clever,
amusing and of the world. A man with
twice that amount is to be avoided and
twenty million man is just twenty mil
lions
''The three American centres-San Fran
cisco, Chicago and New Yorl1-are admin
istered by the alien, by the Irishman for
his own interests, and by Germans for
those of Germans, and the rule of the
democracy is the rule of iron"