Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-20
ELEANOR GLYN-
HER BOOK AND
IMPRESSIONS

Mrs. Glyn visited America a year
ago with che avowed purpose and de-
termination to write a book about the
country-and here it is. The volume of
impressions" is made up of letters
from Elizabeth, some time married to
Lord Valmond, to her mother in Eng
land.
Lord Valmond, Harry, quarreled with
the marchioness over her flirtatious
conduct, and fled to Africa. In mo-
ment of pique Elizabeth sails for Amer
lea. After she travels far and wide,
Harry joins her in the west-and
Elizabeth confesses she is "crazily
happy" over the reconciliation.
Elizabeth tells of New York. Phila-
delphia, Niagara. Chicago, San Fran
cisco, Usage CITY, of her travelling
experiences, of people she met, the GUS
toms of the country 'peculiarities" as
she saw them and many other things
all in a lightsome, blithsome and girl
ish way according to the Philadelphia
Record
Among the "early impressions" were
those concerning interviewers - who
quantity asked many questions-re-
porters who had the expression of a
good terrier after a rat-the most in
tense concentration" Mrs. Glyn does
not like the "hideous architecture" of
the metropolis; she went to Sherry S
and vents her feelings thus:
Everything is so amusing! And we
have had a delightful evening. 1t is
more like Paris than England, because
one wears a hat at dinner. which 1 al
ways think looks so much better in a
restaurant. The party was about 49,
and L sat next the host. American men
as far as | have yet SEEM, are of quite
another sex to English or French
mean you feel more as if you were
out with kind aunts or grandmothers
or benevolent uncles than just men,
They don't try to make the least love
to you or say things with two mean
ings, and they are perfectly brotherly
and serious unless they are telling an
ecdotes with American humor-and
that is not subtle. 1t is something
that makes you laugh the moment you
hear it, and you have not to think a
scrap. When they are not practically
English like the ones we see in Lon
don every season, they wear such fun
nv clothes-often velvet collars on
their coats! and the shoulders padded
out so that every man is perfectly
square: but everything looks extra
ordinarily we'll sewn and ironed and
everybody is clean shaVen; and Octa-
via says it takes at least two hundred
years of gently-bred ancestors to look
like a gentleman clean shaVen in even
ing dress, so perhaps that is why lots
of them have the appearance OIL
actors
In a similar hysterical manner Mrs.
Glyn discusses the "manners" of the
people-their attitude of I'm as COCOA
as you, indeed, better This surprised
her. because the people here are GER
tainly more Intelligent than any other
people on earth. and one would have
thought they would have seen how
futile and funny that side of them is
Mrs. Glyn declares American hus-
bands fetch and carry and come to
heels like trained spaniels, and it is
perfectly lovely" The facility with
which divorces are obtained is subject
ed to ridicule, and some of the elder
men, over 40, are really attractive and
intensely clever; but. as every one IS
married, one would always have the
bore of the wives frowns if one played
with them"
People in Smart Set are exonerated
from the charge of harping upon the