Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09

of good social position hold on to their
manners and let the train go. To be
sure. 70 some extent this is temperament
| tai; nevertheless it gives a handle for
the assertion that American manners
leave something TO be desired.
| Another thing that the English wom-
an does more politely than the American,
| is Ia scrutiniZe her fellow travellers. In
| novels you read IA good deal about the
cold English stare, but have come 70
the conclusion that if that stare really
| exists it must be confined to private
drawing rooms or court circles. In the
| ordinary paths of travel. in hotels and
pensions we'll bred English women never
| stare. They have the art of looking
| without appearing to look down to a fine
art There are only Il few Americans
who can equal them in this. The latter
when abroad stare with the utmost
franknesS at everybody and everything
| within -9nge of their eyes. Young girls
| and old women are equally culpable |
| find myself doing it, and | have moved
about a great deal and know better We
| forget. The English woman does not for
! get. Her lessons of department are ever
! with her.
There are certain shops in Vienna
and in other continental cities which
nearly every woman traveller is sure TO
visit. and there are days when the num-
/
gain brushes in New York. On such oc-
casions it is almost funny to notice the
! difference between American and Eng
| fish buyers. Rather than push and
scramble to get to the front the English
woman will retreat altogether and wait
for better chance, which, of course,
| is sure to come. She viii say calmly:
Let us go here or there, or do this or
| that and come back again. and turn
away with Indifference. Not so the
American. The fact that there is some
thing like a crowd in the place makes
| her all the more anxious to get to the
| front and see the goods, and in she
| plunges, pushing right and left, not at
all particular whose toes she steps on,
| so long as she gets there Wait till
| there is less of a rush? Not she.
Europeans call this sort of thing bad
manners. and in all large European cit
| ies, including London and Paris, where
shopping is conducted differently from
what it is over here and bargain coun-
| ters are almost unknown. naturally the
American way of shopping is not adj
mired. In ways and Mt times such
as | have mentioned the superior surface
| pOliteness must be conceded, | think.
At any late, l concede it, and l admire
| it the more because when all is said and
done the travelling English woman is far
more consistently reserved, far more
particular about the acquaintance she
makes than Americans are.
Take the two ladies, for instance, /
met at the Switzerland pension who so
graciously bowed at they seated them
selves at breakfast. They were plainly
| dressed, as English women when travel
ing are apt to be, and refined in appear
ance, without indicating wealth or great
| eXclusiveness. Therefore, miSled prob
| ably by that gracious bow. later in the
| day three of those ut our table who were
planning drive TO some one of the show
places approached the two ladies sitting
in a retired nook of the piazza and asked
| them to Join the party.
| "GraciOusly the older of the two de-
| clined with the remark: Our plans win
not permit it
Il wonder what their plans areY l
| heard one of the party remark as the
| vehicle drove off, leaving the two ladies
seated in the same spot, and there they
| continued TO sit for the remainder of the
| afternoon.
During the four days | stayed at the
| hotel not once did those ladies enter
into conversation with any one and not
once did they omit their polite bow on
| sitting down at the table. Now this
would be simply impossible for an Amer
lean with companionable. presentable
! persons at her elbow three times day,
/ and it is for this reason that American
women as a general thing nave the bet
| ter time when travelling and that they
are apt TO be the more popular in the
J long run
"For all around, everyday, consistent
| good manners, though. when in mixed
company the English woman is in my
| opinion we'll ahead of us yet."-New
| York Sun.
Uses Ice Cream to Reform Boys.
The tanning Of the New York tough
| boy is one of the specific accomplish
ments of the gospel workers of the evan
gelical committee of Greater New York.
| They have him so he eats out of their
hand-ice cream and cake. Afterward
| he doesn't throw so many stones as he
did nor disturb the services with uu-
| friendly epithets. | believe it was in
| Mulberry Bend at the Italian tent that
they discovered the real, right way to
regenerate boy. 1t had happened they
| had pitched the tent on a vacant lot the
| boys had always had for baseball. The
| boys weren't willing to give it up for the
gospel, so one dark night they tore the
tent to shreds and burned the stakes be
meath it. B. Franklin Butts, the gospel
singer, was one of the workers there
| that summer. Seems to know boys.
Says he was one once himself. Well,
when he found the wreckage, ne lust
! quietly put up another tent. Then he
passed round word that there would be
a Big Boys club formed to play base
ball and there would be ice cream and
cake for the organization meeting. Now
they have a b. b. c." at every tent,
and along with the other proceedings
| there's a gospel talk sandwiched in
You ought to see r. Franklin Butts
conduct a boys meeting. Then you'd
know why, when last summer he was
going to be removed from one tent to
another they thought needed him more,
this wall went up that reached head
quarters: whenever us felers down
here gifts anything we like, it's always
| pinched on u.s. So Mr.. Butts wasn't
| 'pinched'' on the Canal street tent after
all. but allowed to remain with them
Mabel Potter Daggett in The Define
ator.