The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-04-09
American Girls and Englishmen.

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1t would puzzle an outsider. says
writ, in the San Fraacisco 4ryonau.
a man. to tell why Ame-i
can women find Englishmen so much
more attractive than Americans AT
any gathering-a tennis party. "A lawn
fete, dinner, a dance a tea, the Eng
lishman is in the ascendant. Ii is ob
viou> to the most sup riicial observer
that the women find him more charm
ing comnanion than the men of their
own country. The writer asked the
reason, and an American LADY said:
"When an En9lishmau i introduced
to Us he op.ns ne conversation and .
makes it (O. lie doesn't always do
this we'll, hut hc relieves us of wha. i
sometimes "a lerrl5le piece of work.
The American leaves it all % Us, and,
ottel, II he Is not interested In us as
an Individual entity, he does not
even accord to us that half hearted
help TO which We are accuS-
toned. Then. when the Ice is
broken, the Englishman goes on and
entertains us (:). Sometimes he is not
madly interesting, but he always talks
'as we'll as his mental equipment will
allow, and he never sliehto his work.
Sometimes he i delightfully."- amusing,
and we sit back and laugh, and have
the loveliest, lazy, comfortable feeling
that we can lounge and rest, and talk
or stay quiet just as we like. We
never feel that way with an American;
bu; he does all the lime. We have to
set our teeth, and bring our brains
into play and amuse him ooh y. If
we do it well, he laughs and looks
pleased i wonder he doesn't some
times applaud the way they do in the
theatre when we make a good point.
When an American man says a girl is
clever, you may feel quite sure that
she is an absolute genius" "And
how is it that the Englishman ha,
learned this happy trick that we have
missed 7" "Oh, he has had to learn il.
There couldn't have been any conver-
salion on the British I,les unless he
did. English women never talk. Tney
respond. In moments of wild vivacity
they 90 so far as to agree. Someone
has got to do the talking, and if the
Engli shman hadn't braced up and un
, dertaken it, conversation in England
,,o,,lI h. I..a-nn nf tho lnc,
arts "Certainly, English womer
are not very popular over here
We find them slow and somewha
: dull" That's exactly it. They ar
l. not either, but they seem so to you
q Now generations of Conversations
: training, with an Enelisbwoman t
4 talk at, will bring out the best there
: in man. You try talking, for
< whole aftern oon, to one of those large
; handsome English girls who are si
y ting over there under the white SUI
shades. IF you succeed | will bac
,e you to be able TO draw ideas and witt
at cisms out of the debutaates of the con
=. ing winter. No men in the world g
5. as good a conversational training ;
n. the English. And it is because the
H. women are as silent as the sphinx al
ee as unrespOnsive as stone wall. The
a are a great deal handsomer than v
IS are; they are much more stunnin
be they have got style that we new
on can touch, and dignity that We lac
as they have finer compilations, and b.
ur ter carriages, and bigger feet-b
ot that's incidental but we can walk
we round them when it comes to talkir
be And the Englishmen know that betl
he than anyone else