Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-01
CHICAGO SAVAGE TOWN,
SAYS ENGLISH MAIDEN
HOST REFUSED TO WEAR DRESS
SUIT AT DINNER
Man Chews Tobacco, While One
Woman Picked Her Teeth-others
Found SoIace in Chew
ing Gum

LONDON, Dec. 31.-A young daughter OF
the English aristocracy who has just re-
turned to London from year spent III
America, largely in the middle west, mas
written a book on Some Manners OF
Some Americans" which Will be sehsa-
ton if it is ever published. she mas
shown 1t TO several friends, but her par
ents are making a vigorous eftort 10 as
suade her from putting 1t In print, az
ehey feel sure that, although she might
publish 1t anonymously, her identity
would soon be discovered.
They seem not so much afraid or a
row as that certain financial relations III
America which the young woman
father sustains with the American friends
who entertained the daughter might be
jeopardized.
American manners, which Charles DICK
ems made a byword throughout the world
with his American Notes" and Martin
Chuzzlewit," have apparently not inn
proved a whit. according to this young
woman. as least not in Chicago. And
as everybody who knows anything about
it knows that she was entertained by
the most distinguished people in Chicago,
the blow is the more telling.
'',rhev were not only distinguished for
one generation, but for several, and came
of the lest stock in America" she says
in her opening chapter, tracing their
ancestry back to the Mayfower and way
beyond, and belonging to all kinds of
exclusive societies of Sons and Daugh-
ters'."
Tells Experiences
She tells about her experience at her
first dirner with the family she went to
visit for several months They had Known
her father in bushes way for a quar-
a. al adj
once to the family intimacy. The head
of the family was a man who had been
in the diplomatic service, and at seme
of the best courts, and who knew practlc-
ally everybody of Importance in America
His father HAD been a distinguished fig
ure in Washington politics and the family
had been on intimate terms at the White
House through half dozen administra-
items
The wife was the sister of one of the
most famous judges of the United States
supreme court. whose speeches adorned
the drawingroom t9ble and whose por-
trait in oil was conspicuous figure in
the dining ROOM
There were several political friends in
to aim but the host came down in his
dressing gown and slippers After din
ner some of the gentlemen accepted
cigars but one of them preferred his own
particular brand~of Chew, excusing
himself several times to go to the front
door and expectorate and one OF the
women of the party surreptitiously picked
her teeth with hairpin.
The young authoress speaks of visiting
another family at their country home
Just out of Chicago. 1t was an old home-
stead, and they were acquainted with
all their neighbors for miles around, liv-
ing among them with the most delightful
democracy. but APPARENTLY SO interested
in their family affairs that every time the
telephone rang on the party line which
they shared with a dozen other families,
some one ran to the receiver and lis
tened, afterward telling all the news.
1t was during visit at this house that
the young English woman speaks of a
dinner party, attended by a large COM
pany from Chicago, at which she mar
veled at the gowns the women wore. i'm :.
ported from Paris. but marveled still
more when the dinner finished with
chewing gum.
There was big bank president, a
railroad magnate, dry goods store mil