Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-07-05
AN ENeLSHMAN,s TRIBUTE.
And a HAT of Warning to the Americans
Rushing to Europe.

At last comes a bit of appreciation
from a source whence it has long been
withheld. A young Englishman who
has been doing the rounds Of the Amer
lean cities writes home in praise of us,
and, better still, an English weekly,
The Gentlewoman, publishes it as fol
lows: "The Americans l simply love.
They are so wonderfully sympathetic to
one. There is no trouble they will not
take or personal inconvenience they
will not suffer if in any way they can
render one a service. " The name of this
extraordinary young Englishman is not
given, or it should be blazoned forth.
The weekly paper, in reproducing the
extract, takes its cue from it and urges
Londoners and all English folks to ap-
preciate the "boundless kindness and
hospitality which they (Americans) heap
upon us" and be ready to receive the
strangers right royalty" i'll return. 1t
calls attention further TO the unprece-
dented influx of linen and women
from all parts of the United States"
who are now crowding and will for the
next six weeks crowd London and then
separate for wanderings all over Eng
land and makes plea that they be well
treated. There is bit of policy in its
concluding advice, which every one who
has suffered the extOrtionate impertl-
nence of the London tradespeople-an
impertinence none the less because it is
often enyelOped in fawning servility-
will say a hearty "amen" to: I'm these
bad times of depression in trade it would
be as much to our advantage as to theirs,
not only to welcome, but retain the
Americans in England as long as posi-
BILE Not all Americans are rich, though
most are generous. We are sadly i'll need
of their dollars, but need not be extor-
tionate for all that. "
One is provoked and indignant to
think of the thousands of dollars these
"crowds of American" will spend, not
only in England, but through Europe,
before the autumn will send them home
again. Provoked because many Of the
thousands will go for things that will
be bought under the impression that if
they are the same price they are better
than can be bought at home, while if
they are cheaper than the same goods
here it will still be supposed that they
are of the same quality.
A woman buying gloves in Paris last
summer was surprised at the price
charged her for the make of gloves she
was accustomed to buy for considerably
less in New York.
/. "Ah, madame" said the glib shop
girl, "but we send only our seconds to
New York" OF course this was wholly
untrue. 1t is absurd to suppose that
skilled American wholesale buyers are
going to be imposed upon with seconds
of anything, much less gloves, whose
quality is a known quantity every time
to an expert in the trade.
The same woman S experience in Lon
don was similar. Prices were always
equal and often greater than i'll New
York, but stress was invariably laid on
the superior wearing qualities, stress
that was extensively disproved in the
case of most articles. Tourists from this
country are looked upon abroad every
time as geese to lay golden eggs. They
are geese to give their gold for the value
they get, nine times out OF ten.