Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-15
AN ENGLISHWOMAN
Writes on Her American Sister and
Brother.
SHE TELLS WHOLESOME TRUTHS.
The Woman Grown AWay From the American
Man Who is Absorbed In Money MaEIng-Th0
Rich American Unfit for Anything But War With
Labor and HOgIng Everything In Sight Rails
Ing Daughters for the Gentlemen OF Europe.

Ing Daughters FOR the Gentlemen OF Europe.
An English lady who has made a
study Of her American sister on her
native heath, publishes a column or
two Of her observations from which
we select a paragraph here and there
| Touching the American woman's ex.
travagance, her English sister says:
She Is an eXtrayagant person. this
! American woman, TOR she spends
| twice, If not three times, as much on
/ her dress as her English sister. and
| she certainly knows how to make mon.
/ ey fly I'm every direction Is this not a
| little hard on the poor husband? They
| have developed into mere mOney-mak
| ing machines, and yet, it is their own
| fault; they are utterly unselfsh as far
as their women folk are concerned.
| They want their wives to be smarter
than anyone else, their houses TO be
In the most fashionable quarter, and
above ALL their dinners to be described
| in the papers, For this they are will
ing to pay. Up early, hurried break
| fast and off TO the Office they go. They
| work hard all day i'm a pandemonium;
luncheon is a scrappy entertainment.
afternoon tea is unknown and they
arrive home for their o'clock dinner
dead beat and thoroughly played out.
| My heart often ached for those Door
| husbands; they seemed to have so lit
| tie relaxation i'm their strife for wealth.
Tis a hard life, that of the well-todo
American citizen but he never com
| plains, and goes on week after week
| with punctilious regularity, raking I'm
dollars for his wife to spend.
American women do spend, there is
no mistake about that. One drops i'm
TO the Holland House, the Waldorf,
/ Sherrys or DelmonicOs. and finds
these good ladies lunchng or dining
| together i'm twos or in dozens It is
quite surprising to the Britisher to see
| the way women in the States constant
| ly lunch and dine alone together, their
men being either too tired or too busy
to join them. These good ladies order
/ the most recherche little repasts; they
| rarely drink anything but iced water;
and they seldom smoke-that is a vice
or virtue pertaining to European
| shores. Occasionally an American wom-
an takes a cocktail before dinner com
| posed Of one or more spirits. in which
an olive or a cherry reposes; but she
never orders wine or spirit at the meal
itself At table America appears
land of teetotalers"
Speaking Of the American men, the
/ chaps who form trusts and combines
and crush the life out of the toiler, she
says;
Yes, these American women live
their lives apart from their men-fOlk
They invent pretty little dishes for
luncheon parties, invite their friends
to come and test them as epicures, or
dine together at restaurants. They
have their boxes at the opera, they run
over 20 Europe every two or three
years. they appreciate art and music
they belong to clubs i'm which culture
is written with a big c, they read and
hold debates on all sorts of subjects.
and are just as delightful to talk to
as they can possibly be. Their lives
are as full Of diversified interests as
their husbands are centered in one
groove The husbands never have time
to hunt shoot golf, cricket or tennis;
they simply toll week in, week out.
The leisured class is unknown, and the
athletic business man a rarity"
Too busy forming trusts and fight
ing the honest toilers.
In her summing up, this English
woman concludes in a most logical
vein thus
After many happy weeks spent in
the States, / am not in the least sur
prised that Englishmen should marry
American women. They show their
good taste-I should do the same were
! a man! Nor am [ surprised that
American women should prefer Eng
lishmen-for the same remark applies.
There is a delightful freedom, an air
of comradeship coupled with pleasant
manners and pretty looks I'm the Amer
lean woman which are most attrac-
tive. Her hospitality is unbounded.
her generosity thoughtful. and she is
in every way an all-round good sort.
There is no doubt about It, the
American dame is a great personality.
but either she viii have to educate
her sons to her own level. or descend
from the pedestal on which she now
reigns Which will IT, be?
I'm the meantime the men and wo-
men lead totally distinct lives; the
men work for gold the women strive
for intellectual charm; both are sue
cessful, but their interests in common
are surprisingly few. AS a nation ad-
vances men cease TO be content to
strive only for money, and women find
a lack Of sympathy I'm men who are
Intellectually their interiors
Quite correct, Miss Johnny Bull. The
American millionaire men never read
a book, hardly 80 to church, seldom
pray, and never miss an opportunity
to oppress their employees or cut down
wages or bust trades and labor or.
ganizations. Meantime their women
are growing away from them and seek
ing more civilized and cOngenial mates
among people who spend money like
gentlemen even II they make IL by the
lower wages paid their European serfs.
The American rich man lis becoming
not alone an unsociahle but a conspiC-
uously despicable creature. penurous
In his expenditures, and an unfeeling,
tyrannical taskmaster who hogs more
than the prOverbial lions share of the