Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-17
Is SHE AN AMERICAN WIFE?
Abusing American Husbands In q London
Paper.

Abusing American Husbands In q London
Paper.
A correspondent who signs herself San Amer
lean Wife writes from the Hotel Metropole at
Brighton, England, TO the London Daily Tele-
graph in the following terms:
Sir: wonder whether any of you who are
rushing into print over the projections and i'm
Projections of the English matron have ever
given a thought to the superior advantage she
enjoys over us? BY us mean American wives.
have had the advantage of studying your do
nestle existence and must frankly admit your
English wives start Leck and shoulders ahead
of US in opportunities.
have read with some interest the various
letters in your paper, and especially the growl
from "A Brute in your issue Of Saturday. He
growls at the English wife-growls because he
has TO surround her with all the pretty attri-
bptos that make woman SO charming O compan-
ion; growls because he has to keep her, feed
her, clothe her, humor Ler, pay her bills and
give her up his time and his society.
But underlying it all there is the ill-con-
cealed growl of satisfaction that he has to do it,
and, what Is more to the point, he does it, and
then, particularly in the last part of this good
natured growl, is where the English brute"
outshines any other nationality. He does give
up his time to his wife, he surrounds her with a
HON. that ID a home in very truth. because he
comes to il and remains in il, and in this alone
you have the great start of the English woman's
superiority over all other nationalities as a
wife. II is the Englishman love Of his home,
his Unborn sense of reverence for the four walls
that shut out his little square of domesticity
from the outside world, that make him good
husband and make the English wife what she
is. the fiaest feature of civilization.
In all this fad line of comparison between
the lot Of the English wife and our own.
In the true sense OF the word the American
home does not exist. We have wives and hus-
bands enough. and homes of a certain char
acter but the husband is wanting. He is fond
Of his wife in a certain way, and he dresses
ber-when his means permit ito perfection;
but she Is much a stranger to the sweetness
OF your English home influence as she is to the
sight of her husband in a pair of slippers
putting his evening pipe Of contentment
The American husband does not growl at feed
ing US. clothing supplying us with money.
He rather likes it. for he is generally as proud
OF his wife rs he is of fast trotter, but he
draws the line at that. and il is pretty safe es-
innate to make that qine-tenths of them seldom
spend an evening at home, and consequently
never give their wives the companionship of
love and mutual confidence, without which no
home can be happy one. and without which
no woman can N axe, in the strict sense Of the
word. good wife.
take it that women are at heart pretty much
alike all the world over. II is national custom
that makes such differences NAV exist and il
is this difference between the habits and train
ing OF the Englishman and the American that
in its turn marks the advantage of the English
wife over the American wife. / pay tribute to
your English matron: she is, as a class. the
purest most noble Of all women in creation: but
l envy her the English husband who has made
Z her so