Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-20
ENGLISH WOMEN
AND AMERICAN MEN,

In London a short time ago a lady
who goes TO court was signing that
she had no more fingers on which Ia
count the titles captured" as she de-
clared. by American girls. Later she
faid that II was one Of the greatest
} rarieties TO meet an English woman
OF standing with an American husband
she recalls the marriage of Sir Edwin
| Arnolds daughter with a man Of this
country, that OF Sibyi Cuffe and MT
| Cutting and mentioned that Marshall
o. Roberts had married the daughter
OF Sir George Herbert Murray But
after naming few other notable in
stances OF such marriages she still de-
ciared that the attraction OF English
women for American men. and vice
versa, was not considerable.
1t must be a serious matter to fall
IN love with an English girl she was
then told by a young American, who
had just returned from fashionable
party In London, and where he had
taken neither the time nor the trouble
TO break through the wall OF reserve
and conventionality with which he had
found these girls surrounded.
They are all so alike" he COM
planned, unconsclously missing the va
riety which spices Intercourse with his
own country women. Charming, GER
taialy, tut we couldn't hit 1t offl'
Nor had he in the least appealed to
the English girls whose innate conser-
vatism holds them back from accom-
modating themselves to the ways Of
American men. A man who announces
himself the slave of time, who Is
known to spend his days SHUT up in an
ONCE Is frequently, even though UNI
"a
by the women accustomed TO men
whose fortunes have been made for
them long ago, and therefore have the
opportunity TO devote themselves to
other things.
is man extinct here?' asked Lady
Cunard when coming away from an
afternoon reception In New York. This
was natural for at similar time OF
day In London drawing rooms are
crowded with men. The EnglIshman
in short, has leisure to play the cava.
lier; the American has not
Many Of the English girls are strik-
ingly beautiful, sincere In their affec-
lions and seldom artificial nor are they
lacking In daring, adventurous spirit
which quite equals, II not outdoes, that
OF the American girls. As yet this
country has NOT produced a Dodo.
When the day perchance, shall have
come that greater proportion of our
men have more leisure, and the Eng
lish women have digested the fact that
a round hat and sack coat may still
be worn at the noon hour, II may be
that these splendid girls will queen 1t
over the man and great houses of the
new world IN a way similar 10 that
which they are now so amicably al
lowing American girls to do in Eng
land.
For some time English women have
carefully studied the attitude OF Amer.
lean men toward their wives. IT Is
acknowledged to be charming. Quite
sententiously some gene.ous soul may
"hope II VIII last Scientists even are
prying into what they regard as the
Americans extraordinary admiration
for and confidence In his own wife.
They are kind enough to explain that,
primarily, this has come about through
the early scarcity OF women IN the
states. They dwell on the days when
o man had TO be rather spruce and
rather spry to catch" a woman Fur
Their, they tell us that the present
pleasing condition of things cannot
last. I, Is argued abroad that Ameri-
can women are becoming overtrained,
or, II might be said. too finely bred, and
that this IL something which must
eventually react on the welfare OF the
country.