Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-21
RIDICULOUS FADS.
Some Of the Forms An9lomania
Has Taken.
People Who Arc AggroSsivoly American
In England and Pronounoed1y KnE-
Ilsh In AmorioS-APlnH FOt~
eIHn Arlstooracys Fl.


Those thoroughzgoing, out-and-out
Americans who think that Uncle Sans
citizens ought to be Americans first.
last and all the time will probably be
set to thinking by the criticism that
member of Actress Loie Fuller's COM
pany brought over from England last
week. --.-...
Some Americans" said, the actor,
ARE agRressively American when they
are on the other side, and pfonouncedly
English when they get back home
again." The thespian who, the New
York Sun says, thinks America good
enough for any man, had been making
philosophic study of a certain, class
of American travellers, who are the butt
of ridicule when they get back from
European trip, namely, the Angloma-
MACS. They are beginning to congre-
Gate on the .promenades and in the
hotel aud theater lobbies these after
moons, and they make themselves ludi-
crously conspicuous by the exaggera-
tions. that they introduce into the Eng
Iish nannerisms of dress and idiom that
they strive to copy.
They have come home with the same
old extraordinary fondness for carrying
their arms akimbo, as if they were
loosely hung to the shoulders by
gprings. They cover their heads with
hats that are most woefully unbecoming,
carry their gloves in one hand instead
of putting them on, put on the tooth
pick shoes and display other peculiari-
ties that have barbed the satrical pen
ellis OF the caricaturists.
These are, however, only a part of
the disagreeable peculiar1ties that some
Of the returning swells take delight in
:foisting upon public attention. The
most striking idiosyncrasy that these
persons have brought over IS what is
claimed to be the very latest proper
capcr, don't you know" 1t has been
called the ''basso .profundo pronuncia-
tion," and those who have heard it de-
clare that it beats the record for
absurdity. Tt consists of the drawing
of words with the most tedious deliber-
alton, and sinking the voice very deep
indeed. An American who heard this
extraordinary affectation sought an ex-
PLANTATION a1d got it in the statement
that it was considered clever to conceal
the somewhat sharp nasal pronuncia-
ton Tat many Americans pos
sess and which the Londoners
had got so accustomed to that they
could distinguish Americans anywhere
by this style Of utterance. To escape
ne comments of the Englishmen these
Gotham swells divided ordinary words
into rs many syllables as they possibly
could and pronounced them with q
deep md monotonously long-drawn-out
drawl. For example, the name
Charles" which is spoken sharply and
decisively by most Americans, became
& cultural "Chaw-les-" 1t was the
came with by Jarve," and "How dye
daw" and hundred other common
place ordinations.
Nobody has been able TO discover
why the swells do this sort of thing
Nobody alive and in his senses talks il
that style in England, and the pro
ANNEXATION always caused q smile Whel
used in New York threaters or hotels
Some Of the slang that the dude
have brought home to throw around II
the CONSERVATION of every body is nm
usually comical this year. Most of j
appears to have been picked up in tn
London music halls and is of the kin,
Jenny Hill introduced to American
thenter goers some months ago at Ton,
PASTORS. They don't say baggage on,
more rs they used to-. 1t is: "Lool
otter me luggage, that's good fellah.
They speak of their clothes as "som
tngsS got on the other side, me boy.
They are "a bit fuddled, don't yo
know" when they lrave taken NOR
liquor than is good for them. Thei
money" has become "brnss" anC
N""rst OF all, the guardians of the pcac
LaVe become Nhnhhies ~ I------ -