The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-05-26
AMERICAN
WOMEN
Married 10 Members oi
the Nobility
OF ENGLAND ARE CRITICISED
For Lack of Manners-A Spirited
Reply by One of Those
Concerned

LOndOn.-An anonymous writer in
,he press during the week made a
long and savage attack upon the man
ners of American women with Brit
Ssh titles. After admitting that there
We're some excellent American peer
esses the writer said the variety he
objected to were the hybrids. the
Chicago, Park Lane, 400, upper ten
variety"
The writer. who apparently is a
woman, continues:
Il accuse this hybrid of striking at
all that is most cherished in the
home life of England, at all that is
most modest. unselfish and reveren-
lial.
Il accuse her Of introducing the
apelike' decadence of New York So
ciety, where eXtrava gance is distinc-
ton, display is nobility and notoriety
the ideal at which to aim.
Il accuse her of neglecting the du-
ties to which she has married a1d
setting an evil example to those Of
lower station
She is a snob to her finger dps:
her tuft-hurting struggles for social
advancement are based on the Amer
lean plan OF getting there.
Has No Scruples.
She has no scruples in her moth
ods, applying to social life tn ethics
Of modern finance.
She has 40 conception OF home
life; her husband is a partner to be
thrown over if tending 10 bore.
IL,
Iren
She considers knowledge Of do
nestle economies degrading for a
wealthy lady.
She has no reverence. and there
fore cannot understand that there are
duties which long custom has bound
round the high name she has bought
Her actions are those of creature
newly civilized. Yielding to within
or caprice in dress, she encourages a
prodigality which is the curse of
womankind today"
The writer denounces American
women generally for extravaganza.
lightly regarding the marriage ties
and vulgarity advertising their char
tiles, gowns, dinners and Incomes.
EVokes a Reply.
This assault upon the character of
American peeresses She never met
an Englishman who did not admit that
American women were decided ac-
qujsition to the British peerage She
writes:
i am personally acquainted with
every American woman who It's mar
ried into the great families Of Britain
a aj
ing, mOdasty and expenditure. con
sidering their great wealth, are a
standing reproach to the majority Of
English women Of the same class.
Il know no American bridge -amb-
lers. We don't dread theGl. There
may be such a class in New York,
but We don't call them society. They
are drones in America, cutting the
same cloth which gives England her
bankrupt peers.
My father was a business man.
I've become a business woman per
force, because my husband has neith-
or the inclination nor the brains to
attend to his affairs.
A Fair Exchange.
My husband brought me title
which | neither seemed nor dia1iked.
I b"oughl him sufficient wealth to
save him and his army of relations
and hangers-Cn from bankruptcy and
I-Whai'S more dreaded-hoDest work.
4 paid the debts Of his estate.
bought back the pictures which had
been pawned. replacing a thousand
things which yandaI hands had de
stroyed through ia greedy craze for
money.
If 1t We're not for American wO,
men large proportion of your great
estates would have been lost to the
British aristocracy.
Your hours of lords would by this
time have been turned into a store for
want OF better purchasers.
Your noble descendants of Will
ham s Emigres would probably be OBJ
| llged to work for a living. or else
seek in marriage the daughter Of
some British millionaire of the peo-
pie, and you all know what that
means.
! Should Worship Them.
If | were Of your nationality 7
should put every American woman
upon a pedestal and Worship her for
II 1t mad not been for us your women
would still be the dowdy. frowsy. bad
~ dressed, down trodden housekeep-
ers of former days.
1T Is not true that we rule our
husbands. except where our husbands
| are unable to rule themselves. 1t
would have been fine thing if |. with
my money had allowed my husband
TO spend it in riotous living did not
marry him for that.
became peeress. firstly. be-
cause | wanted title. just as much
as every English woman wants it.
! and secondly tlirdlN fnurthlr and