The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-09
From the New York American.

N LFRED HARMSWORTH Q1ord V Northcliffe) arrived in New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse full of enthusiasm for American women and English husbands. Observe the distinction, between American women and English husbands. Listen to the fol- lowing:
 ."The most interesting thing about America Is her women-at least that is what Bnglishmen think and we ought to know, for we have in London the very flower of American womanhood--women of your country who have married 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.
 "The American girl likes our men bet ter than she does the American; it's be- cause he knows better how to treat her.
 "T have studied the American girl not little bit. and it Is after much careful observation that have come to the con- clusion that our men make better hus- bands for the American girl than your own men. The American woman likes him better
 What the American woman-what any woman-likes is to be adored; to be made much of-to be worshiped in truth, and that is where the Englishman has the advantage over the Amreican. 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-gong wits of the average Englishman; the English man may be stupid-I don't think so-but if he Is, his stupidity Is of sort that ap- peals to the American girl so much that she marries him.
 Let the American girl deny that! I can prove what I say by statistics--ac- tual figures.
 Why, do you know, 1t has gotten to be so that when an American girl marries an American the public Is truly grateful. The newspapers devote columns to tho event; they speak of her common sense and of her--I was about to say heroism, but I will modify that-of her fine love of home and things of that sort. That in itself proves my statement-the Ameri- can girl who through choice and of her own volition marries an American is so singularly rare that she needs be pub licly commended for her noble act?
 You say these conditions exist, Lord Northcliffe. Why is 1t so?" was asked.
 For many reasons. I have told you one-that the Englishman worships his wife. Then, while the American is busy making money for his wife. the English man is busy making love to his. In the last analysis a woman prefers man who makes love to the one who can make money The American woman Is indeed fortunate; she has the advantage of hay ing fathers who make money. and she marries the Englishman who makes love to her.
 Your men, I take it, are too much in a hurry in their love affairs. They rush a girl That word is strictly American in the sense I have just used it, and very apropose of the methods your men pur- sue. The Englishman never rushes in anything particularly not in matters that affect his heart. A woman Is fattered by the time he takes in his love-making.
 lO LiiC SAuciitdh 6iii, uett eO hhO OhiAoA sort of man, 1t Is refreshing and has in it a subtitle fiattery, I dare say. that eventually wins her over. Your men rush the poor creature to death and all sentiment goes a-glimmering.
 American men may make fairly good lovers before marriage; they may shower their fancees with American Beauties: they may stun sweets down their pretty throats: they may provide all sorts of entertainment; but it is so palpably lav- ished upon the girl that she becomes surfeited with the purely material dem- onstrations of the mans affection.
 ''He forgets to tell her that he loves her; in his business-like way, he recalls they day when he honored her with the avowal of his affection, and he looks with pride upon the four-karat solitaire or the band of brilliants which gleams puon her third right-hand finger, and like that famous ad' he thinks 'nuf ced
 But with us it Is different. A man is more devoted after he Is married than before, and, while he doesn't buy roses by the ton. he does not forget the bunch