Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-04-12
.PAOEREWS AND WOMEN
Views of Famous Pianist on Some
Pertinent Questions.
THE AMERICAN GIRL.
Suffers Somewhat Comparison with
Her English Cousin-Eulogy
of Children.

The approach to the rooms Of Jan IL.
mace Padercwski. in the Hotel Manhat-
tan, i'll New York. is like walking up the
alley of a garden full of flowers. | was
ploted through hedgerows of pink roses
carnations, orchids and peach blossoms
to the masters apartment.
If the hall is an alley of blossoms, then
the apartment is small Garden of
Eden. In this flower laden room it was
that | was left to await NJ. Padcrewskl,
while his secretary disappeared behind ii
pOrtiere where | could hear him say
something to someone who replied in ali
hysterical voice; then a silence, some
more quick, short calculations, then the
curtains parted with Il jerk, and a man.
straight, slender, quick in every motion,
glided. rather than moved, toward me.
Cordially, he held out a long thin hand
like alabaster.
Monster Paderewski?"
"Oui. mademoiselle, oui; you have come
for talk, n chat, on
On the American girl-about her
les, yes; let me see-what shall | say
about her-shall. shall it be Pray b..
seated All this rapidly, neryously STAG
cato.
"About the American girls enthusiasm
perhaps, first" l said, by way of u
feeler.
"Over music-eh? Well, well, it is
great. to be sure-great. If she is sim
cere, it is extraordinary IL she is not
sincere, she is nm extraordinary deceiver.
and is as wonderful as ever
But, would you not rather have an
audience of American girisg
Up went the nervous shoulders down
the hands, and the eyebrows lifted them
selves on the white forehead
"Oh--um-Im not so sure-Pm not so
qitp IF CHI
". The English girl make a good au-
dience."
mo. no: the American girl is always
but the English girl is not too
enthusiastic. Hers is the juste milieu.
do not mean this exactly as a criticism
of In belle Americana, but she is Pc
culiar, your American girl-charminG.
but always coquettish- daring-bold.
You have them all in one-French Eng
fish. German all. yet only American,
after ALL"
But some things she does"
The lips closed tightly, and compressed
were decidedly things disapproved Of
He played nervously with Il silver paper
cutter as he continued
For instance. the way she often
dresses herself. She does wear some
times the most outandish things-out-
Iandish, but therc--that's enough about
fhat-She is"
We'll, perhaps it would not be gallant
to so into minute particulars. but short
skirts, still cravats. mems coats mems
hats, mems shoes. mems Shirts-rghi she
should never wear such things, it is not
womanly, it is not delicate, it is not be-
coming. The new woman, as You call
her, is not sympathetic She is unwin-
some, unlovable. How could an artist
. l. low - n
hee-deouS automobile coats you see ev-
erNwhere here in New York. for in
stance! 1t is not possible" The eye
brows and hands went up again.
she IS not the sweet woman we like.
then We want the woman TO be gen.
tie and Wear things that are peculiarly
and particularly hers. We want her TO
'ee feminine in thought and manner--the
sweat gentle woman~that is the woman
but. helas. you don't always find her
today
held in my hand q collection of
American types Of fair women
lie turned TO some i6ruiizatiuns of the
typical American girl When Padercw-
ski saw fhe Stanlaws girls his face was
~ $eHsP- SGFpfiSe. perpieNlty ana mirth
chased over his mobile features,
.N"noSsibIe, impossible French.
dainty. otrra bougc, but impossible, alb
solutely." And the StIllaws girl was
impatiently pushed one sue. because she
was not American-t~ ~ French, impos-
sible."
Then there was the ..owaid Chandler
Christy type-"coy, yet very much SO
phiSticated" murmured NJ. Haderewski.
That man made something one sees
everyday, the young woman who is so
intensely coy She is amusiug-he has II
right there. She is human. She is the
typical American matron, not dgnlhen,
enough But that other. what you call
her, Stanlaws, it is too droll type TO
be real"
The last he had come to. He leaned
his head on one side and. with one eye
closed. said slowly. rs if weighing ms
words
"Ah! | know her She is Gibson
girl She is too angular too long In hg-
nrc' too hard every way. She could not
be so in life. no. she could not | should
say she was an American type but she
Is too long; oh, much too long and angu'
lar. Then, too, her forehead is too mas
culine She lacks, in my opinion, some
thing of the essential. eternal feminine
She is high bred, perhaps. but too con
,scious of it. It's type that | think q
man would tire of. 1t lacks warmth
heart, what YOU will,
"The American girl. just rs long rs sh,
keens her pretty head on her feminine
shoulders. and keeps her woman hand'
in woman : gloves Is charming -hut th'
English
NJ. Paderewski looked over the larg
rose howl full of American Beauties tina
he was now standing behind, and HI
eyes beamed as he said THE Eengleesh.
And is she more-charmlng!
mo. not more eharming-but true
woman-trlpr. | mean, inasmuch as sh
is more domestic. she does not 80 ahea
in affairs of state; she does not take tn
reins i'm her own hands; she loves he
children: she loves her home-generall
her husband-she is content to help a