The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-15
AN ENGLISH VIEW OF AMERICAN
 WOMEN.


 One secret of the American woman's charm is her individuality. She is al- waysoriginaI and gay and merry, gen. erally amiable, and, more often than not, gcod-tempered. Her adaptability arises in great measure from her cos mopolitan bringing-up. She creates no routine of duties or habits. She lays down no abitrary laws for herself. Have not "Poppa and Momma'' and she simply followed their own sweet wills for months at a time, living in their trunks all over Europe? What is the good of making laws or rules if they are only to be broken? Another of the intricacies of the American female per son and character is that it so seldom
 betrays affinity with undesirable bour-
 geois ancestry. On the contrary, pork
 butchers and patent pill makers
 daughters often possess extreme dis tinction of feature and bearing, as well as delicacy and refinement which are the reverse of the legacy usually be-
 queathed by the proletarian to his off, spring in other countries. Why John Tompkins's progeny in England should have snub noses and thick ankles and long upper lips. and John Tompkins's family in America bear every external mark of breeding is a. mystery which I leave to wiser heads than mine to solve. Possibly in America the Tompkinses have reverted for model to q patrican great-grandmother, one of the stately ladies who adorned American society in the time of Alexander Hamilton. How ever that may be, thefd isno doubt that the large proportion of those ladies whom Fate sends to Sour shores are what Mir. Collins would have described as elegant females.
 The American woman, where she is not blue-stocking Gas sometimes hap pens), is accomplished rather than soundly educated. As a rule she has travelled and seen far more of the world than her English sister, and be- ing observant and qufck-witted she has profited by what she has seen. Most American women talk Continental lam guages with facility, though not always with correctness I have heard of the American girl who told her occhiere iii Florence to go to the bottom of the Arno and turn round therei ('.Andate al fondo dell, Arno poi girare," was what she said. Still, the best class of American women undoubtedly can make themselves understood in most foreign countries, although their knowl- edge of a language seldom extends to it's literature There are, of course, many American women of high order fo intelligence and interlect, but they scarcely belong to the representative type. All American women, however, are born takers, and they possess the faculty of interesting their listeners in subjects no more occult than visit to the milliners or "Momma's S love of 'to- dnaytoes." Whatever be the topic, they bring to it's discussion a keen sense of humor and power of racy description which arrest attention. Women in Amer ica may occasionally Gas in England) be empty-headed; they are never bores. The transatlantic of a subject and use ful appendage, as the English middle class woman reverses hers in the spir- it of Katherine after Petruchio had tanned her. To her husband the Ameri- cdil Hay Be Cdpficlous, tllcoHSlu6faIe, selfish, exacting. but in her relation to her children all the nobler qualities of her character comes out. In them she forgets egotism, and is ready for self sacrifice. As years lay hold upon her, she becomes more and more disciplinec by her children and more and more un- obedient. In this phase the American is at once pathetic and curious spectacle.-London. World.