Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-01-16


thinking than dinner or ball dress,
shame in which found her OF course |
| am not prepared to say that an Ameri-
can would act differently under the
same circumstances but from what |
know OF your women, | believe she
would have more sense.
Englishmen havo told me that they
are compelled to be painfully cifcum-
spect regarding their attentions to Eng
lish girls, unless they are very much in
earnest" ventured, "lIas that been
your experience as young physicianY"
He laughed, as he replied, IF tell
you the truth you will declare mo the
greatest egotist in seven liingdomsl"
Mover mind my opinion" said l,
provided it is the truth you give me.
Truth with a capital L is what am
after"
THE English dowager is proverbial
for the close eye she keeps on eligible
young men, as you surely know, " he
began. Naturally, in my profession,
have not been exempt from motherly
observation decidedly annoying. Not
long since, during the summer months
| went down into one of the shires' to
take my vacation by supplying for
medical friend of mine, who had
large practice there, the duties Of
which had told on his health until he
was at the point Of break down and
consequently was off for rest / was
kept very busy day and night. AZ one
prominent house in the neighborhcod
they sent for mo professionally much
oftener than deemed necessary, to see
the daughter Of the house, who lay on
a couch in q becoming dressing gown
suffering from nothing moro serious
that | could find than headache,
which did not prevent her from being
quite chatty. Shortly came an invita-
tion from the mother TO dine, followed
by others in quick succession. This
not being my first experience, after
about 10 days ! saw that my ordinary
politnescs waa being wilfully niscon.
structed by tho mother: whether the
daughter felt the same way about the
affair | do not know
Here | interrupted: Perhaps il was
all your own conceit, and she never
even gave you a thought"
knew you would think that, being
an American and not used to martial
manuuvres as wo are, but let me prove
TO you that, il | am conceited, | am
not without grounds for MY conceit.
That old lady went about the neighhor
hood saying; Yes, we thinl, DIR. a
nice young man; just the one FOR Julia;
they are so congenial! Have so many
tastes in common | don't know that
it will come to anything, but rather
think it will And of course all this
the neighbors took care that should
hear, until | fairly hated that girl, al
though reasonably knew that the poor
thing was not TO blame; that she was
powerless to hold her mother's tongue.
English women are progressing in
these matters, | feel sure, " no went
on, "but her American sisters are still
in advance Of her at least those with
in my acquaintance When | am pre-
sented to an unmarried American
woman, my first thought is one of re-
lief: | know | can be myself, treating
her intellectually as my equal. without
fear of her mamma wishing to know
my intentions, whom | have not even a
sign Of one y
PRAISE FROM HOLLAND,
Although not with an Engllshman,
still right in the heart OF London 1
had, the other day, an amusing OK
perience apropos of the foregoing, with
a wonderfully clever Dutchman, pro
fessor of English, French, Greek and
Latin in the college at Rotterdam.
We were stopping at the same house,
and one day after lunch all the other
guests and the hostess had gradually
slipped away, leaving the professor and
me immersed in a conversation about
Socialism, he having been one of the
first to break through Dutch political
eunventionality and ally himself with
the new Socialistic movement then on
foot, becoming in time one of the writ.
1 ing editors OF the organ of the Dutch
/ Advancc Guard as he calls them. This
man is about a. years of age. has as
supreme contempt for MaartenMaartens
as delineatOr Of Dutch character, is
an old bachelor and speaks the best
English have ever heard from the lius
Of foreigner. In the midst of a
heated argument he suddenly broke out
With " Are all American ladies' like
| yuu2 | never mot one hhfurc, and l
never had such delightful Conversa-
tleu with lady before, either! am
oyer 10 years OF age, and never up to
this time had talked with lady out
side Of my own family alone" Where.
| upon | asked if he posed rs a woman
hater; To which he replied Bv no
means; quite to the contrary But in
my country men are never permitted
to speak alone with "a lady unless they
are engaged, consequently, us | have
not felt myself in position to marry
until my last book gave me little
fame and some money, declare 10 You
that never in all at my years have
talked alono with anyone but MY sister,
because tho girls III Rotterdam would
not understand, and would Immediately
look conscious and as though they were
expecting a propusai; while you sit
there talking economies as uncUnuern.
egly us man,
assured him of my unconceFn, and
Of his own safety, also that in America
mcn nowadays have to resort to William
the Cunqueror' means TO induce the
women tu murry them AT all, So far has
Independence gone with US; which
do not think he believed altogether,
being professional student Of human
nature
IN farewell, must tell the cleverest
thing | have eyer heard from an Eug.
lishman's lips directly. 4 mechanical
engineer who has lived both III SnutA
America ana Africa in the interests ut
his profession, was talking to me aiout
the difference between IN American
and English locomotive. said /
What miss about your engine il
what we call the COW catcher il
America, believe. Your tcchnica
term for it is fender. Why don't you
have them on your enginps?"
We don need theln," he sale
quickly. Our cows can't catch ur
with our engines over here. speed i.
our speciality"