The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-17
London Truth Voices Some Rather
Remarkable Sentiments Con.
corning Her.
SOCIETY HER PROFESSION.
Is Above the Laws in Her Own
Country and Feels Herself AL
ways "On Parade" When
Abroad.

Special. by CABLE TO THE NEW YORK
HERALD AND TIN: ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC
London. March 16.-(Copyr!ght. 1903 This
weeks London Truth says:
The influence of woman in English-speak-
ing countries has recently grown, and Is
growing with startling rapidity. In the
United States, woman enjoys a position
which some NEUROLOGICAL goddesses might
envy. For her men work and worry almost
without ceasng.
''If accounts which are published in Amer
lean newspapers may be relied upon, women
in that country are, for all practical pur-
poses. above the laws-divine or human,
and in return for this worship maryland
some of those most indulged-prefer to
marry bankrupt peers or pennless foreign
noblemen than to wed men of their own
nation.
The American woman has unquestion-
ably been a success in Europe. She is gen.
TO please those she considers worth pleas
ing. She has that instinct for the class
above which only they have who belong. to
the class below and. to use an expression
employed by 7. Taine, she always stands
with shouldered arms and feels herself on
parade.
SHE is THE FASHION"
Her affectations and the sins which she
ropean good manners are overlooked be-
cause of her American origin, moreover be-
cause of the favor accorded to them by
royal personages. and also because of the
exalted positions which many American
women have acquired by marriage. They
are the fashion, and it is impossible to
escape the influence of the fashions of our
own times. With those advantages, is it to
be wondered at that American women have
succeeded socially in Europe?
But are they also a success as wives?
II Is true that comparatively few Amer
lean women have trailed their character
through the divorce courts in England.
Social success is that which they aim at
and the exposure entailed by divorce court
proceedings might endanger this success
the more so because their social position Is
not as protected as If they were surround
ed by connections as are women in this
country.
They are tolerant and expect their hus-
bands to be tolerant. Society is the end-all
of the life Of such All American woman,
and. since she has obtained foothoid in
England. society has degenerated from
polite pleasure into profession.
There is little privacy in English soci-
ETY. now; Dinners and dances are fully de-
walks is reported. The slightest occurrence
is alluded to in print. paragraph writer
calls in early in the morning. and again
late IN the afternoon. and is inspired so that
the most trifiing and apparently uninter-
esting personal detail may be published in
the newspapers.
HAS SHE COME TO STAYr'
Is "OUldn Ill Europe q Sue
cess as a mother? 1t is too early to answer
that question. 1t will be surprising If 1t
later is found that the kind of woman that
has been described has been successful
trainer of her children. and II she proves
successful in that direction 1t will be n
proof of the good qualities Of the American
character and the results of free and indie
pendent institutions
Has the American woman come to stay?
That. too. remains to be seen. If the
women OF this country can maintain the
higher and more womanly ideals which
have been handed down to them from past
generations and profit by the education and
experience of modern surroundings, they
may await a reaction with confidence as
sured that their beauty. their home making
qualities and their disnclInation to thrust
themselves under the limelight will be ap-
preciated when men Of the Old World cease.
TO go to the new to procure money and
when the American woman and her ways
are no longer popular novelties In Europe
1T scarcely need be added that these OBJ
servatlons must not be applied to all Amer
lean women or wives in Europe. There are
many of them who are ornaments morally.
mentally and physically. to the country Of
their adoption. and who. by their example.
teach their European sisters lessons of
reasonabeness and self-re.iance which are
of considerable value"