Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-03-31
The American Girl
vs.. the English Girl.

Inc American Glrl
vs. the English Girl.
When a foreigner asked an American
what Americas finest product was the
answer came quick and briet. Girls
And it was correct.
Every country can boast of its beauti-
full type of women, but in no country is
there anything to equal the beautiful.
bonny, unaffected American girl
The men of all nations must believe
this, else why the worldwide demand for
American girls III the matrimonial mar
ket?
Over in London just now young Wal
d0rf Aston, with his many millions, is
great eaten.
He would have no trouble in finding an
English wife of title and wealth to share
his fortunes, but his choice has fallen on
a beautiful young American, Mrs. Nam
ME Langhorne Shaw.
She has no wealth to recommend her
nothing but her pretty face and her CAV
natural charm of manner.
What is the matter with the English
girls that they let their American cou-
sins get ahead of them so often where
attention from men is concerned?
Perhaps the fault lies in their stiffness
and self-consciousness of manner.
Here is young man worth nearly a
hundred million dollars.
He has been brought up in England
and has associated with English girls all
his life.
The natural supposition would be thai
he would fall i'll love with an English
girl.
But five minutes i'll the society of n
wide-awake American did more damage
to his heart than the English girls could
do in all his twenty years.
There is no doubt about 1.-THE Eng
lish girl does not stand a chance in com
petition with the American girl
Englishmen are constantly falling in
love with the American girls but how
often do you hear of an American man
falling in love with an English girl
Very rarely, and the reason is that he
cannot stand her dullness.
He is so used to the sparkle and
charm of his own countrywomen that
the English woman seems utterly devoid
of attraction
She has been brought up in such mar
row, CONSTRUCTED surroundings that she is
mere automaton, with but little imagi-
nation and no originality.
An American girl can enter an Eng
lsh drawing room and in ten minutes
attract every man in the room to her
side, leaving the English girls forlorn
and cavalieress.
She has all the attractions which the
others lack.
She is chic which they are not. and
she is never at a loss for conversation.
So. altogether, it is not to be Won
dcrcd at that when an attractive Amer
lCan girl came upon the scene the Eng
iish girls chances with young Aston were
null and void.
Mrs. Shaw has been seen galloping
along country road on polo pony. her
laugh ringing out as merrily and unaf-
fectedly as Il child's.
1t must have been that natural @iriSlt-
ness and lack of affectation that made
her so popular in London, for undOubt-
edly she has been n great belle on the
other side of the water.
The English complain that the Amer
lean girl is allowed too much freedom.
Well. perhaps. in some cases she is.
but certainly, whatever the general meth
cd Of bringing up an American girl may
be, the result as a whole is highly salts
factory.
Her English cousins would do well to
relax somewhat and pattern themselves
ihore on the American girl plan.
What the English girl needs is more
Niy1city and less reserve and stiffness.
There is no harm in being natural and
say and lively-that's what Il girl is
meant to be.
She is not supposed to be rs sedate
and dignied as Il woman Of forty
There is no charm equal 10 that of I'M
affected joyous giriishnesS. \ few Years
ago Dana Gibson. Mrs. I.auehorne'>
hrother-m-law, drew picture called
The American Girl to the World. 1t
vas supposed to represent the typical
american girl challenging the world
She stood on n hill. Il beautiful. brave.
athletic young goddess worthy of all the
worship that could he laid at her feet.
hat is the kind of girl that is making
America famous for her daughterS-thc
-iri that Is stealing the hearts of men of
all nations.
The only way to keep En=lishmen's
.artS from Straying acroSS seas i FOR
English girls to learn the secret of the
american girls charm and emulate it,
t.hlIadcIphia Evening Bulletin.