The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-14

or nlcheS cut Tn the walls or portions oL the Interior of the house. About four and half feet long and perhaps three feet wide where the bed is made. Just how full-grown person can stretch himself in such bed is hard to see. The Hollanders are not small. It cer- tainly seems an impossibility for two persons to curl up in such box.
 Holland was one of the few countries that warmly sympathized with the
 United States in the recent war; the same is true of Belgium. But this is not due to any love of Americans, nor to the belief that our country was fight ing for humanitys sake. A tradition al hatred of Spain has come down from the day of the Duke of Ava, when atrocities unparalleled in the history of warfare were perpetrated in the Meth | erlands. When asked Hollander on which side of our war the sympathy of his country ranged itself, the answer in substance invariably was, with the United States; we know what Spain Is of old"
 l had while in Holland constant ac- cess to the leading papers both of France and Germany. If there ever was any bitter feeling toward us in France, it seems to have subsided. I read only one unpleasant article that appeared a week ago in the Figaro, which paper seems to me to be by far
 the ablest of the Parisian press. This
 was criticism on the alleged tendency
 ot the American press to indulge in bragadocio. The article further said
 that the Americans seemed to be spoil ing for fight with the European pow
 CTS. Possibly so far as the tendency to
 bragadocio is concerned the criticism l may have a grain of justice in it. I
 have hot seen an American newspaper for some time.
 There is not the slightest doubt of very general ill-feeling towards us in Germany. There was something of the same feeling, though not so bitter, in
 Austria and even in Switzerland h. deed, there was no country on the con- tinent except the Low Countries where there was any warm sympathy with the United States in the recent war. I don't think any very satisfactory ex- planation has been given of this feeling. This is due I think to unwillingness on the part of newspaper correspondents to tell the real truth. The fact is Americans are not loved in Europe. They were not in England until 1t be- came matter of interest to like them. It was but a short time before the war 1 broke out that a writer in the CoSmop l oils remarked that it was the universal l feeling in England that their American | visitors (not cousins as now) were not agreeble companions. Real America is
 not represented by the American tour
 ists. There is no country in the world
 where so many people become suddenly
 rich as in ours; in other words, there are thousands in America who have
 wealth and nothing else; who have
 means without culture or even good
 manners. It is true that there are no I travellers in Europe who make such q l vulgar display of wealth, and it may be 1 added. of themselves too, as the Ameri- l can travellers do. It is these Americans 1 who attract the most attention who un- 1 fortunately give a character to all the
 rest. On the Champs Elysees it is not | the Englishman, nor the German, nor
 even the Frenchman that makes the
 sensation; it is the American. Vulgar
 display in a guided city like Paris will | be at least tolerated and often forgiven,
 but it is detested in Germany. Ameri- | cans are all believed to be rich. Many | an American has found this out to his i great inconvenience, but they generally
 are regarded, just as the writer in the 1 Cosmopolis said, as not being compan- 1 ionable people The American German
 who goes back to his native land does
 not tend to mitigate this impression. He l is too apt to show off to his former
 countryman his better fortune, and the
 poor German tradesman, farmer and
 mechanhic crushed down by the weight l of American competition, and with a
 soldier on his back besides, looks with
 "mauvais oeil'' upon his Americanized l countryman and thinks that the Amer ] ican people is a nation made up of vul- gar parvenues That such a nation
 should be stealing their trade and ren-
 dering their fields unproductive is hard
 enough to bear, but that they should be
 whipping Europeans in war was simply
 intoIerable. Even the Hollanders told
 me that it would be going too far if the l American fleet had come over to Spain. ] They thought Europe ought not to per-
 init that, According to the German l VIEW Ol It, SdHdlIJ ulti EPdlll, plOuu,
 courteous, dignified Spain. with his-
 tory from the days of the Romans, had
 been beaten and despoiled by a nation of parvenues A German gentleman asked if did not feel sympathy for
 Spain. "Haben Sic Kein Mitleid, Ach! es ist traurig!"
 Of course this unjust view of Ameri- l cans is not as general as it once was 1 Prof. Bryce in England and Paul Bour- get in France have done much to dispel the i'll opinion which our own country men have established for us. The lat
 ter author in "Outre Mer'' tells his countrymen that the Americans of 1 America are not the American tourists l and I have seen the same statement | from the pen of more than one foreign
 writer who has visited our shores. The
 war has done good deal for us; it has at least shown that Americans are strong and capable. It has done more 1 it has shown that Americans are gene rous and magnanimous.
 I am happy to have been here when 1 Europe was thrilled with the great l message of the Czar. It seemed like
 the sunrise of new age. It is believed
 here that the Kaiser and the Czar are in
 accord with one another Both are | young men of high and noble ambi- tions and anxious to leave a glorious | name behind them and what can he