The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-08
"HER ROYAL RICHNESS, WOMAN"
Max O'ReII's Analysis of the GcntIer
Sex.

Sex.
Max O'Rell, wit humorist and cosmo-
politan, lectured on Her Royal Highness,
Woman" last night at the Guard hall
before probably the largest audience that
has patronized an affair of the kind in
this city in years. Maj A. r. Lawton,
Jr., made the Introductory speech, in
which he Congratulated the committee of
the Young Mems Christian Association
on its good fortune in securing a gentle
man of such worldwide reputation as
Max O'Rell.
ORell is an intellectual and distin-
guished looking man. with a clear voice,
tinged with a slight French accent. HIS
lecture was unique from the fact that
il more resembled friendly talk with his
audience and was delivered entirely with
out reference to notes. From the mo-
ment he commenced to speak he held the
attention and interest of his audience.
That Mr.. O'Rell is a born diplomat was
evinced by the fact that he opened the
fire of kindly satire and criticism on his
own nationality, the French Frenchmen,
he said, are the most modest people on
the face of the earth, and know less of
other nations than any other people. They
know there are other nations and pity
them, because they are not French. In
illustration 0Rell related an anecdote of
his mother, who had spent her life In
small provincial town in France, and who
objected strongly to his coming to Amer
lea, expressing her surprise that Ameri-
cans spoke English, and. in a postscript
to her letter, told him not to worry, that
she would not let a soul know in her town
that he was going to America, as it did
not look respectable.
O'Rell divided his lecture in two
French women, of whom he said
"In the French household woman is
queen. She is not only wife, but business
partner and manages her husbands affairs
much better than he could possibly manage
them himself. She knows that love lives
on trihes and the married French woman
is therefore careful of her personal ap-
pearance, seldom appearing in the same
dress before her husband more than once,
and trying to make his home life happy
and entertaining by every means in her
power
ORell said the fact that so few married
men in France are members of clubs is
the greatest compliment Frenchmen pay
to their women. In speaking of matrimony
he said, that on marrying, the French girl
gains her liberty; the English girl loses it
and the American girl retains it.
O'Rell in common with all his country
men has an intense dislike for John Bull,
and his criticisms of English men and wo-
men were sharp and incisive. One that
was thoroughly characteristic was his des-
cription of an English dowager as "a wo-
man who was"
In speaking of American women O'Rell
prefaced his remarks with a compliment
lasting some ten seconds at the end of
which he frankly stated that ''he was glad
the typical American man does not exist,
but the typical American. woman certainly
does. There are no women, he said with
whom men feel so much at home, no 9TH
er women in the world make such a sue
cess in the ball room or salon. The wit,
vivacity and beauty of American women
are famous the world over. You are not
all beautiful" said O'Rell, but you are
all intelligent" 1.-The American girl" he
| said, lis allowed almost every liberty and
| she takes the rest He described the sem
sation his statement that American girls
are allowed to have latch keys caused in
| France and England. He said that the
| toughest most illiterate American man
can teach lesson to all Europe in his
| respectful treatment of women. The re-
Spect American men have for their wo-
/ men arises from the fact that women
! have better educational advantages in
| America than they do elsewhere. O'Rell
| admires American girls, for their health,
/ their high spirits and their great appetite.
| He concluded his lecture with a disser-
| tation on love, which he declared is para
| mount in all the affairs of life. The three
| most sacred words in life, he said, are Il
/ love you" No man should ever utter
| them except in reverence. when you win
| woman" he said, place her on a pedes-
| tai and adore her; she is above you in all
things; man at his very best is unworthy
] of woman"
ORen has a distinguishing feature in
| his power of pantomimic expression
| Whether expressing in dumb show the
| slow progress of French elevator or the
vagaries of an overdressed woman's bon
net, his audience never fails to grasp his
/ meaning.