The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-07

Better Husbands.
The reason why so many American
girls choose English husbands Is that
the Englishman Is more devoted and
knows how to treat her better than
does the American, was the explana-
ton recently given at the Hotel St.
Regis, in New York, by Alfred Harms
! worth, Lord Northcliffe. who arrived
on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. says
the New York American.
1.-The most interesting thing about
America is her women-at least that Is
what Englishmen think, and we ought
to know, for we have in London the
very flower Of American womanhood-
women of your country who have mar
ried our men and who never come over
to this side unless it may be to make
mamma a brief visit or to see how
the States have grown" said the great
English editor.
1.-The American girl likes our men
better than she does the American. It's
because he knows better how to treat
her.
II have studied the American girl,
not a little bit, and it is after much
careful observation that l have come
to the conclusion that our men make
better husbands for the American girl
than your own men. The American
woman likes him better. What the
American woman likes-what any wo-
man likes-is to be adored-to be made
much Otto be worshiped, in truth
and that is where the Englishman has
the advantage over the American. He
adores, worships, lavishes his affection
on his wife.
"The American calls us a stupid lot
He loves to tell the American girl those
stories, referring to the slow going wits
Of the average Englishman. The En-
glishman may be stupid don't think
so-Dut If he is his stupidity is of a
sort that appeals to the American girl
SO much that she marries him. Let
the American man deny that! I can
prove what l say by statistics-actual
figures.
"Why, do you know, it has got to be
SO that when an American girl marries
an American the public is truly CRATE
full. The newspapers devote columns
to the event. They speak of her COM
mon sense and of her-I was about to
say heroism, but will modify that-of
her fine love of home and things Of the
sort. That in itself proves my state
ment. The American girl who through
choice and of her own vOlition marries
the American Is SO singularly rare that
she needs be publicly commended for
her noble actr'
You say these conditions exist, Lord
Northcliffe. Why is it SOP was asked.
For many reasons. l have told you
one-that the Englishman worships his
wife. Then while the American Is
busy making money for his wife the
Englishman is busy making love to
his. In the last analysis woman pre-
fers man who makes love to the one
who can make money. The American
woman is indeed fortunate. She has
the advantage of having fathers who
make money, and she marries the En-
gliShman who makes love to her.
"Your men, l take it, are too much
in hurry in their love affairs. They
rush girl. That word is strictly
American in the sense l have just used
it and very apropos of the methods
your men pursue. The Englishman
never rushes in anything, particularly
not in matters that affect his heart. A
woman is hattered by the time he
takes in his lovemaking. To the Amer
lean girl used to the other sort Of man
it is refreshing and has In it subtle
fattery, l dare say, that eventually
wins her over. Your men rush the
poor creature to death, and all senti-
ment goes a-glimmering.
american men may make fairly good
lovers before marriage; they may
shower their fiancees with American
Beauties, they may stuff sweets down
their pretty Threats, they may provide
all sorts Of entertainment, but it Is so
palpably lavished upon the girl that she
becomes surfeited with the purely
material demonstrations of the mans
affection.
HE forgets to tell her that he loves
her; in his businesslike way he recalls
the day when he honored her with the
avowal Of his affection and he looks
with pride upon the four carat solitaire
or the band of brilliants which CLEAN
upon her third right hand finger, and
like that famous adj he thinks 'nuf
ced'
But with US it is different. A man is
more devoted after he Is married than
before, and while he does not buy roses
by the ton, he does not forget the bunch
of violets or the roadside buttercup, it
might be, Of which he has heard his wife
express herself as fond ON some happy
occasion In the past-an occasion Of
which she may have forgotten until re-
minded of it through the thoughtful
ness and sentiment Of her husband.
Those are some Of the reasons why
our men make American women better
husbands. Your women are filed with
sentiment; they must have flattery.
must have affection, and when the
American gets to taking too much for
granted the stupid Englishman comes
in and flies of with the Yankee BRIDE"