Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-11
American Women
And English Men

TN London short time ago lady who
goes to court was signing that she had
no more fingers on which to count the
titles captured" as she declared, by
American girls. Later she said that it
was one of the greatest rarities to meet an
Englfshwoman of standing with an Ameri-
can husband She recalled the marriage of
Sir Edwin Arnold's daughter with a man
eof this country, that of Sibyl Cufre and
Mr.. Cutting, and mentioned that Marshall
o. Roberts had married the daughter of
Sir George Herbert Murray. But after
naming few other notable instances of
such marriages she still declared that the
attraction of English women for American
men. and vice versa, was not considerable.
1T must be serious matter to fall in
love with an English GIRL" she was then
told by young American who had just
returned from fashionable party in Lon
don, and where he had taken neither the
time nor the trouble to break through the
wall Of reserve and conventionaIity with
which he had found those girls surrounded.
They are all alike" he complained,
unconsciously missing the variety which
spices intercourse with his own country
women. Charming, certainly, but we
couldn't hit it Off"
Nor had he in the least appealed to the
English girls. whose innate conservatism
uOluS tuciu UdCh lTOIl accommodating tn6fn-
selves 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 Office, Is frequently, even though
unjuStly, regarded as money grubber by
the woman accustomed to men whose for
tunes have been made for them long ago,
and who. therefore. have the opportunity
to devote themselves to other things.
SIS man extinct here? asked Lady Cum
ard when coming away from an afternoon
reception in New York. This was natural,
for. at a similar time of day in London
drawing rooms are crowded with men. The
Englishman. in short, has leisure to play
the cavalier; the American has not.
Many of the English girls are strikingly
beautiful, sincere in their affections and
seldom artificial; nor are they lacking in
daring, adventurous spirit which quite
equals, II not outdoes, that of the Ameri-
can girls AS yet this country has not pro-
duced a Dode. .--
When the day, perchance shall have come
that a greater proportion of our men have
more leisure and the English women have
digested the fact that a round hat and a
sack coat may still be worn by a gentle
man at the noon hour, 1t may be that these
splendid girls will queen it over the men
and great houses of the new world in
way similar to that which they are now
SO amicably allowing American girls to do
In England.
For some time English women have care
fully studied the attitude of American men
toward their wives. 1t is acknowledged to
De CIldFIulHS. quite SeHltIliOuSly SOmS
generous soul may hope 1t will last" Sci
entsts even are prying into what they
gard as the Americans extraordinary ad
mration 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 a
man had to be rather spruce and rather
spry to catch woman. Further. they
tell US that the present pleasing condition
of things cannot last. 1t is argued abroad
that American women are becoming over
trained. or. it might be said. too finely
bred, and that this is something which
must eventually react on the welfare of the
country