The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

American men are 50 diherent. They have nobility of their own. and when 1t comes to making love, an American man. even if he Is always chasing the dollar, comes pretty close to being as good as the best of the foreigners. with all their practice.
 Abroad the American man has the reputation of making the most admir- able of husbands. In Europe they think that the American husbands spoil their wives-and isn't that the right sort of a husband to have? The young French girls and the young Russian girls know all about them. and their highest ambition is to marry an Amer fcan. Why, there were two or three who wanted me to bring them over to New York just to meet some nice American men Oh. yes. the American husband has fine reputation abroad!
 But if love- making and love is so different over in Europe, SO is every thing else. The days seem so short here. Everybody and everything Is in such 6 rush all the time. We never seem to accomplish everything here in a day that we set out to accomplish. Abroad we do as much, but the days seem easier. more tranquil. We take life more calmly in Europe.
 Take Paris. for instance. Every body seems to have plenty of leisure. You see just as many men everywhere as you see women. The 5-o'clock-teas that all the French women have are crowded with men--their homes at these times are perfect little Paradises. None of the Frenchmen you meet there seems to work: they are all people of leisure, apparently.
 "But I don't think. with all their leisure and their ease. that they enjoy life as much as we do. People abroad rarely travel as much as Americans. for instance. People of position think nothing of staying at home all their lives. The average Frenchwoman of wealth and standing merely goes to her chateau near Paris. nothing more. Few French women ever come to America-they told me on the Maure- French are such poor sailors. A French woman Is frightfuIly seasick always when she crosses. English woman travel more; you see them con- stantiy on the Riviera and all over Europe as well. They sail well. too; and with their excellent constitutions they are so vigorous. so straightfor- ward. so honest and wholesome.
 These women of Europe don't make 1t hard for an American woman abroad who wants social recognition. When | went InSfe hucW put OnG WOIldn, but she soon introduced me to others. and before I had been there long seemed to know everybo ody. and every body was so charming to me, a stranger!
 'I arrived in London in Ascot week. oh. London's hard to talk about: Lon- don is a great mystery. I'm going to explore 1t some day and solve the mys- tery. But London women ,are just charming--they were so amiable to me. They took right to me at once. Londoners have a look that you never see on the continent-they look more like Americans than Europeans.
 "The London women are discriminat- ing. Above all things they have had more experience than the average American woman. They show their gentle breeding, too--you can see that they have had it for more than one generation. Don't think by all this praise of EnglishwomeB that I'm not fond of American women. Why. my ahdest0rsi >@9rSf Anaeffcan ever since I've had sany.5sfa sW
 London women don't carry them serves as well as American women do-- even the King has noticed that. At Mahienbad His Majesty remarked that the lady just ahead of him was an American. I can tell her by her walk he explained. The King was right; the lady was from Chicago. The Eng lishw dress we'll. but they don't carry their clothes as well as Ameri- can women do, though they have the best of frocks. And they have awfully pretty faces. The English women of high breeding are really beautiful. They have better complexions than American women and have prettier hair. And they are so very fair when they are fair.
 But we Americans are away ahead when 1t comes to feet and hands. It Is almost impossible eto@get. them to wear the dainty. pretty shoes we have. I went to the finest shoe stores they have in Paris and London, but I couldn't get what could get In New pair of shoes. as did in Paris. or four pounds in London. Their shoes don't fit on American feet. The French woman's foot, the Englishwoman's foot is long and fiat. They don't have the high insteps that we have or me arch our feet have. And their hands are not as small or their fingers as tapering
 aThe real Parisian women are quite another story from that the average American has in mind. There are two kinds of women in Paris-the women of fine family, who invite you to their homes, and the women one sees in the theatres, at the restaurants and on the bouievards. The Frenchwoman of the home doesn't devote the time to dress that we think she does. She lives in her family and for her family. And she has the most wonderful eyes you can tell her anywhere.
 T consider 1t such a rare good for tune that I got to know them. They are so hospitable. Each one wants you to meet ail her incest friends-thats the spirit in which they all receive you. They are perfectly adorable. The other kind of ParIsienne, the kind of whom you involuntarily say, Isn't she chicT I didn't meet.
 "And the ladies of the fine French families keep their youth so! They don't age half as fast as the strenuous Americai woman does. I remember French Countess I got to know quite well. She introduced me to the Count one day and I thought he was her huHband--he was her son!
 Adorable as they are, the Russian. women don't look well In their clothes. They are too solid, they are usually blonde and their eyes are too small. They have nice complexions and they are all the time women or the world, the Russian woman-and the Russian man. for that matter-is at home every where in the world and never makes a mistake in the conventions.
 tBut for all these nice things, the American woman, and particularly the New York woman. is prettier, and that's so much. It seems to me that fn the heart of the American woman you've got something more. It may