The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-26
COMEDY TYPES IN EUROPE
TOURISTS JUST LIkE ThOsE
SEEN ON FMS STAGE.
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on . tFip 70 Europe Good old fashioned
comedy ohAEactsrs happen along az every
turn. All the old friends are present, and
thea a0ma.
There is the Englishman with hts draul
and his tub; The English woman uith her
reversible figure. also her implaoahle
feet; the French waiter. aSsshing and
frOthing with Language: the demi-mon-
dame. whose department u 90 discreet
that you can scarcely bslisys that il
goes down with the sun; the German. Who
According 10 circumstance h either
lump or In explosion: the Italian with
you would swear item hands and forty
fingers on each hand.
or course there are plenty 81 new
types. but these old friends are %
familiar that they give yOa almost a.
hOmy q feeling - fellow American
tourists do. American men with their
short speeches and long cigars, American
women with thsir pretty clothes, also
thsir pretty noses. which thsy migtAksnly
insist on using ~ q vocal organ.
The British traveller used 10 be disliked
all over Europe. He thought he vas
4 cock % tho walk. Whenever he moved
he seemed TO BE- doing Il to the tune Of
See. the Conqusring Hero Gomez For
the last ten years he has been q chRstened
creature.
Whan England had her hands full with
the Beer war people in Europe toOs that
opportunity to try TO get eve n. They
did il in funny futile little wayss such a.
jostliRg lone English women and making
uncOmplimentary remarks concerning the
anatomical architscscrs 10 those some
what gothic psrsOns.
Il was like q lot Of little dogs yelping
Al the heels Of a big dog when the big
fellow was safely occupied with q scrap
Of his own, but II. made the English
open ehSir eyes They we're shocked and
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cordially disliked They became re-
formed characters. They we're the kind
liess d fellow travellers They seemed
TO be saying wistfully'
Just see what . good sort really ami
They complained little and they paid
bg. To all Appearances they had been
born again and born betteT. OF course
they didn't sparkle. hut you really
couldn't expect people nourishsd on
mutton and cold pork pies cold. remsm-
berl-tO sparkle.
Speaking Of food. the Continental
traveller leans % dread ono Engliah
type in particular That is he avoids
eating with the species. When Il comes
10 table manners the English curats. At
least ON his travels, 10 almost on q plane
with French drummer. than which there
is no lower depth.
These curates seem % DO kindly. harm
less creatures. much taken up with con-
sderatiOn Of altitude and temperature
and botany, but Il you can manage to
let them get past the soup before you 90
20 tho table you will enjoy your dinner
more.
The young curaie's wife has better
table manners but worse general manners.
She needs another Beer var 10 chaatsn
her She has besa called the most un-
regsnsrate snOb that CROSSES the Channel.
but sho IL forgotten IN the charm Of a
nice old poroaniAl typsof English woman
whose shadow. though generous, Will
nsvsr grow les II the prayers Of trav-
ellers shall have their way. She too
il allied with the clergy. ShS may be
tho wife Of a vicar 6r even Of a bishop
She 10 alW avs the same
You will Sss hsr In thousand moderate
priced Continental hotels. Her smooth
gray hair IL topped with fussy little b.
ribboned cap. Her god. homaly face
has settled into lines Of poaos. she has
long ago given up that desperate struggle
which young English women are always
making 20 he lively and having tern
poraFiiy escaped the parish or the do
oaas aud her husbands patrons and tho
necessity Of pushing her dauEhtsrs' social
prospects, she can just relax and be her
own simple. commonplace, comfortable
self
Her train Of daughters traipse about
At -p'pah's' hsels. but shs sta near the
public drawing room fire IN winter or by
the best window in summer, her broad
feet on a fOOtstool. an embodied spirit Of
dOmesticity calming the most ieverish
traveller She is frequently occupied
with what she calls WOODS. for the
motto Of the English woman Of all CLASSES
": what IL home without an antima-
caaaarl'
Occasionally you run across a duoheus
and her friends with their cigarettes
handy smoking on terraces and In
FestaurRnts You know Il must ~ a
ducheas. nobody else would show such
sublime Indifference 20 fashion plates and
20 preiudices
Every now and then YOU meet good.
sound wholesome men ard women. who
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warm are % clever A. they are kindly.
They mske the American clad about thlt
"tranHatlantic COUSIN phrase
The old habitue Of Welkr and Fields's
i right ~ home when be runs ARMS a
marty 0f German travellers abroad 1he
German nils the sans role ia the larger
play Of travel that h. dos On the stage
here
Who ever made a wholly seriou. role OS
the German? II IL always 10 laugh when
he comes on It's the same thing abroad
On his native heath he takes lie RAyly and
easily.
He's a good fellow and . good friend;
bu he II q different Creature when sobered
by ths Responsibilities IL travel He
aightRsea with the energy and de con
OentratiOn Of one Of bis own kTupp guns
Ne bOoms and blundsFs around like burly
: humble bee drunk with the hunt fOF honey.
he wesI q foolish little green Ielt has
With fuzzy bet Of feather stuck IN he
band at the exact middle Of the back
Words cannot express how trihing this
little oontrivRnCe looks atop of his bag
bulk: eHpeCially when that bulk h in-
. creased a. Il = ON ali possible occasions.
BY immense tapping cape oyercnats %
mackntOahe@ These cape Affairs, far
ing wildly through museums churches,
open squares. somehow gst 10 be irre-
niBiibly funny