Smyrna times., 1893-07-26
NOTALLA.RELIKEHIM
THE BRITISH CAD ABROAD IS A DIS
AGREEABLE PERSON.


cies-A Creature That DTanifests His
Contempt of Everything Foreign on Ev-
cry Possible Occasion.
There is nothing of which, as an Eng
ishman who has spent much Of his life
In foreign lands, I am more heartily |
ashamed than the British cad on his |
travels, and would like to take this op- |
pOrtunity to warn such readers as may |
not have had occasion to visit Europe |
that my cOuntrymen are not all built on
the same lines as our travelling cad, and |
that the latter must not under any cir
cumstances be regarded in the light of q
typical Briton.
Generally speaking, the travelling cad
belongs to the middle classes, although
am forced to admit that have met quite
number Of his kind who bore names
that figure in the pages of Burke. The
manifestations of his caddishness are
prompted i'll a great measure by patriot
ism of an aggressive and offensive type
which involves contempt for everything
that does not happen to be English.
In no other country of the world, save
perhaps in China, have found such an
undisguised contempt for the foreigner
as in England. The people there are
firmly convinced that everything alien
is necessarily bad; that foreign opinion
is not worth considering, and that when
dealing with foreigners they are under
no obligation to observe the convention
al rules of life which govern their inter-
course with their fellow couptrymen.
The result of all this is that no people
are more Justly abhOrred abroad than
the ordinary Briton ON his travels, and
even the we'll bred Englishman seeks by
every means in his power to get out Of
the way Of this greatest of all abomina-
tions, the tourist cad.
From the very moment that he leaves
England and sets foot ON a foreign
shore the cad apparently casts to the
winds all sense of decency and cOnsid-
Grafton for the feelings of those with
whom he is brought in contact. Eng
lishmen, and, Imay add, English women,
of the cad species do not seem to have
the slightest consideration for their sur
roundings when abroad in the matter of
) dress; their one delight would appear to be
to endeavor to offend the susceptibiities
of the foreigners with whom they are
brought in contact either by the made
quacy or else by the exaggerated and
equally inappropriate magnihcence Of
> their attire.
Another form Of caddishness on the
part of the travelling Briton is the bru-
tality and unvarnished character of his
criticism of everything and everybody
t that he sees after leaving home. Indeed
, one is often tempted to ask why he
: should have quilted his native shores
seeing that he is so determined to find
everything bad and abhorrent that is
r foreign. He ridicules the language, he
e ridicules the accent, the appearance, the
= manners and the dress of all those whom
, he encounters abroad not quietly and
unobtrusively, but in the most offensive
" and public way, without the slightest
x idea of concealment. If he meets al
n American, he is quite as ready as not Il
e inform him that he speaks English will
% nasal twang, totally oblivious of hi
:, own vulgar cockney accent, while to thu
, German he will expatiate on the alleged
II lack Of cleanliness of the Teutonic race
d To the Frenchman no will address wha
he considers to be delicate banter on tn
traditional fondness of the Gallo rae
10 for frogs and snails.
AS for removing his hat when some re
,t igious or funeral procession passe
ia through the street of acOntinental town
I he would scorn the idea. | have met tn
Ie British cad travelling in India, where h
IS distinguishes himself by refusing to con
ID form with the local prejudices and Gus
" toms of the highly civilized natives
/, whom he amiably refers to, even to thei
faces, as "niggers," and in Japan, wher
he does not hesitate to tramp with hi
muddy boots over the dainty mats O
1e which the natives both sleep and eat,
o. have known one of them to cheerful
ne volunteer to a high bred and courteou
-. Japanese noblemap who in an i'll advise
moment had been induced to entertai
&c him the information that he was "ai
ne founded by the lack of morality and prt
to priety" of the women of the Land Of th
or Rising Sun.
at There is nothing that 1 should like s
. much as for some clever New York r
porter to get hold of one of these trave
X ing British cads ON his way home, and I
draw him. The mere record of the i
terView would furnish far more graph
be illustration and portrayal of the creatui
af- than anything that 1 could write. I'll
Ids worst of the matter is that travel do
he not seem to in any way improve Il
ice creature. He starts out from home wit
~, the preconceived determination of fin
we ing everything foreign "beastly"-I u
eff. his own favorite expression. LookiI
ut everything in jaundiced and pref
- diced manner, he goes back more co
ihe vinced than ever that everything that
W. has seen out Of England is "beastly," (
opinion which he does not hesitate
express everywhere and on every ocC
10 sion in the most forcible manner.
-" Nor is he deferred therefrom by al
rtn courtesies which he may have receiv
re- while on his travels, nor by any hos
on, taity Of which he may have been the {
,od jeGt On the contrary, his entertain,
no matter how generous or how kin
will probably constitute theme of ri
cule and will be subjected not to p,
ize trayal, but to coarse and vulgar carit
so ture for the merriment Of the friends
the British travelling cad.-New Yo
'NO Tribune