The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

purpose=she looks 1ess-it Is dtInly
understood that she plays hockey, ten
mis- and golf, and has large feet. She
is an athletic Enigmas / write this, of
course, solely concerning those British
women, young, uafddIe-aged and elder
". who make sport and outdoor ex-
ercise the chief aid and end of ez-
istence. But yield to none in my love
and admiration for the real genuine,
unmodernized English maiden, at her
gen6lest and best-she Is the rosebud
of the world. And I tender devout
reverence and affection to the unfash-
ionabIe, Supplemented dear, loving
and over beloved English wife and
mother-she is the rose in all It's full
blown glory. Unfortunately, howevr,
these English rosebuds and roses are
bling crowd called society Ihey
dwell in quiet country places where the
lovely influences of their modest and
retiring lives are felt but never seen.
Society likes to be seen rather than
felt. There is all the difference. And
in that particular section of it whose
aim is seeing to be seen, and seen to
be seeing, the American woman is as
an oasis in the desert. She also wants
to be seen-Dut she expresses that de-
sire SO naively, and often SO bewitch-
IngIy, that it is a satisfaction to every
one to grant her request.
She also would see,-and her eyes are
SO bright and rowing, and restless that
M0LHSE BEAIaLll4d IS pSEL0AGe ECtHpSlAStA
to smile indulgently, and to open all her
social picture books for the pleasure of
the sDOilt child OF eternal Mayf1oWer
pedigree. It has to be said and frankly
admitted too, that much Of the popu-
larfty attending an American girl when
she first comes over to London for q
season" is due to an idea which the
stolid Britisher gets into his head.
namely that she has she must have,
Money. The American girl and Money
are twins, according to the stolid Brit
isher's belief And when the StOlid
Britisher fixes neutrality-suspicious.
to the passively-resisting matter COM
+ posing his brain, 1t would take LeVia-
than, with not one, but several hooks,
to un-fix it. And thus it often happens
that the sight OF a ez1armingly- dressed,
( graceful, generally smart" American
I girl attracts lie stolid Rritisher in the
I first place because he says to himself
I Money! He knows all the incomes OF
+ all the best families in his own cOun-
try,-and none Of them are big enough
/ 10 suit him. But the American girl
arrives as more or less of a financial
mystery. She may have thousands
she may have nlilliDns,-he can never
/ be quite sure. And ne does all he can
7 to ingratfate himself with her and give
her good time "on spec" to begin
with. while ne makes cautious and di-
+ Dlomatie enquiries. If his hopes rests
on q firm basis, his attentions are re-
+ doubled,-if. on the contrary, they are
OUA4E GIL EAtAAAEi5 -sAAAA= A4G & daHfAAAE I'll
nfnishes his ardour and like a willing
4 flower fades and .'fzzfes" away.
am here reminded Of a certain earl,
/ renowned IN the political and social
world. who. when a young man. went
/ over on a visit to America, and there
fell. or eeigned to fall. deeply in love
I with a very sweet, very beautiful. very
i gentle and lovable American girl In a
brief while ne became engaged to her.
4 The engagement was made public-the
wedding day was almost fixed The
girls father was extremely wealthy. and
she was his only child and sole neiress
4 But an unfortunate failure-a gigantic
I collapse in the money market made
havoc OF the fathers fortunes. and as
soon as his ruin was declared beyond g
i doubt, the noble earl. without much
hesitation or ado. broke eff his engage
nlent and rapidly decamped from this
states back to his own country. where
as all the world knows, he did very vel
for himself. Strange to say. however
the girl whom he had thus brutaIfs
forsaken for no fault Of her own, had
loved him with all the romantic and