The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-01

The Travelling Englishman, says the
New York Tribune, walking up and down
| the deck of the Lain, talked of the
American woman, and this was the gist
of his monologue:
while / am perfectly ready to admit
| that your claims with regard to the SUI
periority of the American woman are to
| a great extent well founded. yet can
not help thinking that in some respects
| they are distinctly inferior TO your men.
| Not as far as intelligence is concerned,
nor in brilliancy of intellect, as regards
| both of which l am inclined to accord the
! palm to the lady. But the American
man is possessed of infinitely more heart,
more generosity and more religion"
"Humph!" calculated the listening
American man.
HE is far more accessible to generous
| impulses" calmly continued the English
| man, land consequently more easily i'm
| posed upon by tales of suffering and
trouble. In the old world we are accus-
toned tog look upon the women as pos
| sesseI of more heart than head; here.
just the reverse is the case, and the
women possess far more common-sense,
more Reenness of insight and soundness
of Judgment than their distinctly inferior,
but, on the whole, more sympathetic,
halves. -
Here the American man smiled
Zone of the most lovable attributes of
woman is her softness of heart. her i'm
pulsiveness and the predominance of heart
over head; and the lack of this endearng
failing in the American woman. while it
may POSSIBLY add to her perfection, dis
tinctly dimiuishes the sympathetic regard
which she inspires. OF course there are
exceptions to this rule, as to all others
but | am talking of the average Ameri-
can woman. whose mental superiority is
generally acknowledged, perhaps uncon-
sciously by her husband. Although / am
no admirer of Max O'Rell, ! cannot help
thinkin that he was right when he called
attention to the fact that whereas in
Europe lit is always the husband and
father who heads the family procession
into the hotel dining room, here in Amer
lea 1t is the materfamilias, pater consti-
tuting the rearguard, meek, submissive
and deferentiaI.
You don't say 500 said the American.
and the Englishman went on:
Il am aware that the idea of American
men being more truly religious than are
the women would arouse a storm of pro-
test. But visit any church in New York,
Philadelphia. Baltimore or Boston, and
observe who are the most devout say
il is the men The women give one the
impression by their attitude and manner
that they are merely there to satisfy the
requirements of cOnventionality. and to
inspect the millinery around them, and
TO be inspected Ask the clergy, too,
both Roman Catholic and Protestant,
and, unless am very much mistaken,
they will tell you the same thing, namely.
that the women are inferior in point of
quiet faith and true religion to
the men. Religion rests mainly on faith.
and the American women are too hard
headed too matter-of-fact, to accord that
unquestioning and touching sort of belief
which is needed in order to be a true
Christian. In Europe the reverse is the
case. The men are far Inferior IN matters
pertaining TO religion TO the women, who
constitute, especially on the continent.
the vast majority of the church attend
ance."
How long were you in the States2,
asked the American man.
six weeks" answered the travelling
Englishman.