The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25
THE AMERICAN ABROAD.
His Ubiquity Impressive and His Sang
 Froid Proves Most Striking.


 His ubiquity fmpresses you and com pels your admiration. His sang froid is in striking contrast to the manner of the average Englishman abroad. The true Englishman is never at home on the continent--it is too full of "foreig- ners" The American is the Bedoum of civilization, at home and at ease everywhere; and the more you see of him the more congenial do you you find him.
 I climbed to the top of Notre Dame in Paris and found there a party from across the Atlantic enjoying lunch. The day was hot, and a young man in the group offered me refreshing drink. At the top of the lace work in marble, which is the spire of Milan Cathedral three English speaking men met accidentally-an American, an English clergyman and myself He who hailed from the land of the Stars and Stripes offered me his field glass; the other did not even return our good morning salutation. In a beer garden at Lucerne I followed the GUS tom of the continent and asked per- mission before sitting at table of those already seated there, The only one who did not raise his hat and re- ply was an Englishman, and the only one to make excuses for him was a young man who prefxed his words with q guess
 At Ostend the usual crowd of camer- ists lodged about between the bathing machines, One of the bathers, with his kodak on his head, to keep 1t dry, his kidak on his head, to keep it dry watched the efforts of others for a While to snapshot a daringly attired French woman, then he coolly asked her to pose on the steps of her bathing machine for him. She did, with the remark; You droll Americans" In the Luxembourg at Paris I could not find Sargent's "Carmencita," and it was a student from Frisco who told me it had temporary consigned to the cellar, together with Whistler's portrait of his mother. The latter however, had been hastily dragged out and placed on a chair when the artist died.
 About half a dozen of us. represent ing nearly as many nationalities, stood at one of the finest parts of the Giess. bach cascades in Switzerland and ex. pressed a desire to see a huge log gt bounding down the torrent. Instantly an American in the party climbed over the parapet, and standing on the edgt of the precipice, too kthree of the ! largest logs from the pile kept there for the purpose and tossed them into the seething cataract. Where he stood the throw had to be careful in the extereme; overbalancing would have been fatal. Later the same day in the Dantesque of the Aar., near Meiringen some one wondered how a revolver would sound in that awe inspiring can on. Instantly an American drew his shooting iron from his hip pocket ant 1 woke the reverberating echoes.
 Tn Venice whenever I was in tht i Piazza San Marco during my stay fail Americans were busy kodaking on. another with half a dozen pigeon, perched on their arms and shoulders At night in the cosmopolitan crowd q, promenaders around the bandstand 1T | the famous square one beautiful wom. an wore evening dress. She came from the land of Edna May. Americar women wear evening dress everywhert even in the mountain villages of ] Switzerland, where they find to theil 1 cost that the hottest days are follow ed by cold nights.
 | In the Latin Quarter crowd at tn,