Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-05
REICH TALKS OF AMERICANS
Women Of AristOcraoy Of United States,
Says Sec al fhilOIcpier.
ALL QUALIFIED TO SHINE IN SOCIETY
Speaker Relates Personal Experience
When He Took Part i'm Discus
sion of Emerson at
Reception.

LONDON, May 4.-(special )-Dr. Emil
Reich, the popular society philosopher of
London. has just been interviewed upon
the Thsw case He says:
Whenever people study Americans they
come to the conclusion that madness has
its geography as its degrees. Where an
Englishman remains calm and callous an
Irishman is next door to insanity and vice
versa. The Americans, however, are high
strung TO a degree and show a mentality
totally different from the average Europ-
con. When they get excited they reach
rapid finale with a fearful crash. Their
governabe rage is neither big fire nor a
vast flood, but a volcanic eruption.
"Of the things that will bring the Ameri-
can volcano into eruption there is especi-
ally one that will seldom fail of effect. 1
mean attacks on their women.
Every American has in all truth and
sincerity a deep-seated respect for and
strong desire to worship his womenfolk.
He is chivalrous and invariably polite to
them. He treats every woman as If she
were lady born.
Attitude of the Men.
las has been remarked hundred times
the American gentleman is quite satisfied
to pile up money by continuous and most
worrying labor in the office or the factory
provided his 'missus' is thereby enabled to
give receptions, to do Europe to become
a scholar and to shine generally in society.
1t is quite true that millions Of American
women are working just as hard as do
American men.
This, however does not impair the gen.
eralization at all, Like all true generaliza-
lions the present one comprises both the
actual and the potential woman in America
Amy one Of the hard working American
would soon as her husband made
money enough TO render her personal labor
superiuous at once rise to the occasion
and shine-shine in the parlor, at the
thester, in the watering places; while her
husband would continue to drudge for her
with a contented smile.
Men are in America not supposed to In
terrupt the literary conversation OF the
ladies' On leaving Hungary l first went
to America and when l first saw the
Americans at reception l found all the
men standing speechlessly with arms
folded on their breast in the back drawing
room, while the ladies were briskly dis
cussing Emerson.
Being under the Magyar delusion that
a man in society must be amis BILE to women
1 stepped among the ladies and also talked
one of the Americans remark to another.
Has that Johnny been hired for that?'
AristOcracy of America.
''The fact Of the matter Is that the
women Of America form the aristOcracy Of
the nation.
NO people can be without an arislocracy
OF some kind. With one. the poets; with
another, the soldiers; with third, the
priests; with the fourth, the lawyers etc,
constitute what Is really the dominating or
socially supreme caste OF class.
In the states for reasons quite patent
such a class could not grow up among the
men. But since II is indispensable, as all
history proves. il arose perhaps for the
first time among women In America. Al
ready the Greeks, who thought they did,
said OF forefelt everything spoke OF the
realm OF the Amazons IN Asia Minor. Were
they not right?
IF In sculptor, a great artist OF our time
was TO represent In marble the type OF
woman so Enthusiastically embodied by
the American women. what better thing
could he do than 70 hew out OF the finest
Pentelic marble an ideal Amazon? SO great
Is the domination OF woman in the states
that / have no hesitation IN saying that
her position. rights ana activities-in short