The evening times., 1897-03-10

! tom house regulations viii be of 10 avail
TO you. IL you carry anything for which
duties must tie paid. offer SO to the officer
| IN attendance. lo the same thing even IN
| case you have TO pay nothing, so that they
may not bother YOU Edch passenger re
lated his experience ia American Gust on
Louses, and all added: These officials re
| the meanest and most miserable fellows u
be found among politicians"
And here follows Senior De Lome's pictur,
| OF the free American citizen:
| We have air heard OF the American,
such as he is usually described, with re-
| volver in his pocket, at the mines in Cali
forna ana Nevada; scaiped by Indians or
scslping Indians; losing health and life
IN the whiriwind OF business or politics;
struggling 10 satisfy his unquenchable
| thirst for gold, intelligent and active, with
lnnorn mercantile feelings and having no
iiea or art outside that which is geotnet-
| neatly modelled. great patriot, he al
most invariably robs his country whenever
he is called 10 its service.
This will interest American men; but
what follows, being about American wo-
men, will interest them still more. The
selection is somewhat lengthy, but 1T is
worth careful reading. Senior De Lone
says:
We all know what woman in the United
She travels alone, with fun liberty, pro-
tected more by fear of the law than 10y
the respect which she inspires. She Is
spendthnft, elegant. and wears the most
risky fashions, knowing well that every
thing becomes her. She is Eenteeii her
feet are small; her hair is beautiful.
no. Know / have seen ameriean women
living at the otels in California, in Paris,
all over Europe, always extravagtlnt,
snendlng more money than their husbands
stk.l -
earned God knows how or where.
before marriage, as said before. they
arc more feared than respected. When
they marry how do they behave? Who can
tel? People have been inclined 20 believe
that they make model wives. i do not
think that they are the worst in the world
Due there are indications which do not COM
mend them much; for instance, the mysteri-
Gus history OF a certain witch, who now
owns palace on Fifth avenue, and whose
fortune, of which she now makes an inso-
lent show, was amassed b preventing the
increase of population in the great re-
public; the personals in a New York news
paper, tue excursions on steamboats,, which
follow the publication of these "personals;'
their trips 20 Europe, and the lives they
lead in Paris
Are all men and women i'm the United
states like this? Maybe not / do not
Know them To be so; but let there be no
misunderstanding upon this subject We
are tired OF seeing and knowing persons
~no a ,; iaCer prove TO be rascals; OF hearing
anu All the more when they happen to be
nlgniy placed: OF shaking hands with persons
%no ought TO wear manacles instead of
gIoVes: We're we 10 believe what those who
know them say.
We repeat that this little work, the pater-
nifty OF which we believe senor de LONE
has not yet denied, deserves his careful. if
not his prayerful, consideration ow.
What has he to say about it? If he wrote
these things, did he mean them; or was he
joking? Does he entertain al the present
time these notions about American men?
And does he ever take occasion now.
and especially in certain circles of society
in Washington, which he is supposed
more or less to adorn, to reiteIate these
opinions OF American women?
Weshould be adtoprnt Senior de Lome's
fun answer to these inquiries