Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-05
PRAISE FOR OUR GIRLS
50 Much Gayer Than English
 Sisters, Says Indian Nabob.
ypxEAsED WITH AMERICAN SOCIETY

anne Sahehxada Nasir Ali Khan of
 Rnmpux Declares the Real Thing I'm
 Anexaca Is Hospitality-says 1t Is
 0ur wonaerfuI Attribute, Our
 Bzrthrdght Optimasm Here Im-
 presses Him.
 The Sahebzada Nasir Ali Khan, ward Sf England and brother to his royal highness the Nawab Hamid Ali Khan, srxller of Rampur, a town in India, re gently returned to England after hay ing spent several weeks in New York es the guest of Mir. Jeffrey Duveen.
 The sahebzada has mingled with the common people, has eaten with the elite at Sherry's, has rubbed shoulders IEgith the masses in the street cars, has .nttended the theaters, danced with the American girl, penetrated into the mys- tteries of studio life; helped New York celebrate New Years eve and has in 'Westigated tie foreign quarter of the city. The other day he sat in the Savoy watching the snow clouds swirl across Central park and talked of his Impressions for the New York World.
 To begin with" he said, New York Is very much the freest city have ever seen, and cannot say that altogether approve of it. might say the people xof New York are somewhat offhand. Tn England the people of the servant class adhere more closely to their place Here I find the servant class thinks soniy of today and cares only for it's own comfort.
 What do you think of American so- EtetyY'
 *I ann delighted with it. There is a sr1easing absence of that convention alify which to mo is so t1resome. Real III I do not Ike conventionality. And fzbe American giri-ah, she is so much .EayerI She has So much more pleasure zhan her English sister. She is so unre- <9tratned. There is much less trouble from chaperons in New York than in &ontinental society. Chaperons ara Snx1isances. Yes, candidly regard them hs such. When take girl to the the ater in London, have to lug along her told father, her grumpy mother or her fznaiden aunt. Here she doesn't need a }eompanion. 1t is so much nicer. Last tuight but the sentence was never {Anished. T like the way you do things &n society in America. I don't like |pomp, and I don't like lot of cere-
 nony. It bores me.
 "How about American theaters? I jghave seen several performances One M liked. The rest were rank. They TWOuIdn't last week in London.
 tT went to the Stock Exchange one }Hay and saw a lot of Americans chas- Ing the dollar. Some of them were Ehasing 1t for bare existence, suppose. Others were trying to capture it that they might add 1t to their pile and sit on It. That is the American idea. Man cannot be rich enough in this country. .As I gather, the more money a man 71as the more he wants.
 TT have been impressed by the op- fi1nism, the splendid joviality, of the American people They are always on the go and always hopeful. I helped celebrate New Years eve with hun dreds and thousands on Broadway the other night bought me a horn and Aoctea with the crowd. 1t was great 1un The whole celebration was typical of America The very essence of aban- donment and merrymaking was in the air.
 "But it is of American hospitality Hhat would talk most That is the Meal thing in America hospitality. 1t I1s a characteristic which no other na- tfaon possesses In so full measure. It las your wonderful attribute. your birth bright It is not vanished over tnsin- >cerity It is real and true and admira- ,bie. don't mean that there is no such '5thing as insincerity in America, but the people with whom I have come in con Mact have been kinder to me than can May. Of course give all credit for the kwarmth of my reception to my hostess, Afrs. Duveen but I want to thank each