Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-02-05
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europeans see MIN IN far pleaSanter
fashion than this. We see him for
the most part through the seductive
personality of his womankind. While
he stays at home to toll at hard pres
sure his wife and daughter come
abroad to amuse themselves.
They don't come in family parties by
any means, and no sight is more IA
miliar on the continent than that of
two or three young American women
friends driving up by themselves,
each with two huge boxes, to the hotel
of their choice.
Sister Jonathan at her best is daintI-
ly pretty and well dressed. The young
globe-trotter is often only 10 or 20
years of age, bnt seems older, for she
has been required to take an active
part in the entertainment of her
mother sguests since before she put
on long dresses. She is always alb
solutely mistress of the situation, she
is always refreshingly self-suficing.
Spectators do not embarrass her.
She knows her charms and accepts
admiration as just tribute to them.
Many a man, mistaking her independ-
ence and inocent frankness for levity,
has received from the young Ameri-
can girl salutary Lesson in manners.
remember a charming Philadelphia
girl in Florence, where she was study
ing singing at the School of Music, and
living in an Italian family at the other
end of the town. She had naturally to
walk to and fro very often urattend-
ed, and she thus attracted the notice
of one of the many italian officers
who, wrapped in their pale blue cloaks
form such picturesque patches of color
in the old Florentine streets.
He took to following the girl every
where and to complimenting her fire.
quently, as the Italian habit is, on her
beauty and grace Heavens! How
beautiful you are!" as the italian will
say as he passes a pretty woman, and
sometimes he will fall upon his knees
in the middle of the path before her
and say it from that posture.
Our young officer di not go to this
length with the Philadelphia damsel,
but he went far enough to bore her,
and she begged him, in very IMAM
biguous language, for the future to
leave her alone. However by this
time his vanity was piqued and it had
now become with him almost a point
of honor to win her favor.
She, being an American girl, was
not in the least alarmed by his per
sistence, and she could even have par
doned an infatuation so fattering to
! herself, but she could not pardon his
disobedience. She, who must be
obeyed" in America at any rate, had
told him that he was not to follow her
or address her any more, and never
! theless he continued to do so. Such
conduct deserved severe treatment
So she contrived to lead him one day
| in front of the club at an hour when
the club was most crowded and the
/ windows stood open to the hot April
sun; there she turned and said in heI
clear, musical voice and faultless
Italian, while she took from her purse
Ira and pressed it into his hand
| Here, my good man, here's a franc
for you. Now, go away and don't
worry me any more"
The poor young man never heard
the end of this story from his brother
officers, but he had the wit to take his
punishment smiling, and the happy
thought of having the coin pierced and
wearing it henceforth on his chain as
| a souvenir. 1t was just so much
saved, he said, from the shipwreck of
his hopes, for he had looked to receive
many hundreds and thousands of lire
with the young beauty's hand.
The American woman takes very
kindly TO foreign titles over here, and
away home in New York has created
an aristocracy of her own. Some years
ago the cream of good society there
consisted OF 400 families only, and
lately, l understand these have been
so weeded out that only rs remain.
The extraordinary acquisition of huge
fortunes by mere nobodies during the
last 20 years has, | suppose, made the
| New York elite even more particular
than it used to be. But, in spite of
| the struggles of the noble rs, wealth
will always have its say and way in
New York, where a host thinks moth
ing of spending e1 500 in the flower
DECORATIONS for a single dinner
Ia Boston, pronounced by Ameri-
! cas- "Bauston," it is tnot money, but
brains, which rule the roost. Or.
rather. it is not the possession of of
brains so much as the affectation OF
culture which is there the passport of
good society. The result of this af-
fectation almost justifes the current
INSTRUMENTATION of the city's name.
But, to be honest, it must be con-
! fessed that brains are more appreciat-
ed all over America than here in Eng
land. Even a New Yorker will talk
of "brainy man. in the same tone of
approval that an Englishman mentions
"a keen sportsman" To do Brother
Jonathan justice, he should be visited
on mis- native heath, where the most in
credulous will admit that there is no
better, warmer hearted, more tactful,
amusing and humane fellow on earth.
Boston is a literary center, or. in the