The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-03-24

1IAdHtittos Hipid dii1f HChNaiiNf anu /
physically. to the country for their
adoption We shall all sleep easier
o. nights for the assurance
There IS phllosophic pleasure,
moreover. to be derived from the dis
covery, through the same journal. that
one reason why so much complaint is
made abroad against the feminine in !
vasion from the United States is that
il has sounded the death knell ~ do |
nestle privacy Why2 Because the
American woman Graves the publicity
OF newspaper notice of her social do
ings She must have a reporter hang
ing about to chronicle the small things
OF her daily life so that the most
tnfing and apparently uninteresting
details of dinners and dances, drives
and walks. may appear in the news
papers.
Coming from such a source, this
testimony is most significant We had
somehow acquired the impression that.
before the American woman had quite
reconciled herself to the idea of even
Legitimate publicity regarding innocent
things her neighbors lilged to read
about.~it was London Truth that used
to fill its columns with spicily told
tales of the doings of aristocratic Eng
lish women who forgot for the time
that they had husbands We thought
that royalty and the peerage came in
for some particularly high colored
passages of private history in our con
ltemporary's pages and that London
correspondents Of American newspa-
lpers. when they ran short of better
gossip. used to draw on Labby's weekly
arsenal for a few illustrations Of the
risque careers represented in Heng-
lish Ugh life
It is because at home they are idol
lied and worshiped and raised above
all laws. divine or human. that so
many of our countrywomen prefer to
marry penniless noblemen rather than
men Of their own nation, adds the
same authority This is an argument
which would not have occurred 10
many minds 1t is a good deal like
saying that the reason so many girls
go wrong is that they have 50 pleas
ant homes. The truth is. the girls who
have comfortable home surroundings
and forsake them for a life of wrong
doing constitute an infnitesimal frac-
ton of cneir class. Their happy do
mestic conditions save the bulk OF
them from even the suggestion, let
alone the temptation of ev.i. so iii
the United States the way We treat ou
women-call it worship, II you will
tends to keep the vast majority OF
them from looking beyond the bor-
ders OF their own country fo- hus-
vands The American girl here and
there who goes abroad picks up Q
bundle of vices. wrapped in tissue Of
nobility and calls it a husband for
forms sake. does one Of two things
she either wrecks her future just as
an Englishwoman would who married
an American scamp or she does thai
for him which no Englishwoman has
succeeded in doing, as witness the
? work of the American wife OF the late
Duke OF Marlborough
: We agree with Truth In wishing
that the American girl would AWAY.
stay at nome: but not for the sam,
reasons. Truth wishes it because i
has had too much of her; we wish I
=, because we have not had enough. Ou
; contemporary does her tie credit t
2 say that, aside for her love of beinl
on parade. she behaves herself prett!
+ well She does not figure in cour
scandale or make Decameronesqu'
confessions in the divorce courts as
I rule. If she is brighter and more win
Y ming than the girls of other national
r tiles and thereby attracts attention
5 wherever she goes abroad. well. VIII
can find It in his heart TO blame he
4 for enjoying a triumph that comes Il
her unsought?
Truth looks for a revulsion Of fee
ing in Europe against her We vii
back her against odds to take care o
herself when II comes. She is on
product Of this country which need
no protective tariff to foster its FOL
tunes-God bless herl
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