The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-11
ON SWEET LITTLE CHERUBS
IMERICiN CHILDkEN as SEEN
IN ~ ROPR.
Europe Believes mat GrOWnup People
are More Important Hence . vast
Difference In the BehaN Tor % Euro
pean children Ideas on Manners.

Difference in the BehaN Tor % Euro
Pean children Ideas on Manners
The man and his wife we're sitting in this
breakfast room Of hotel. IL Was a large
white room, with pictures on the cellin
81 little India rubber cupids swimming
in fiat salmon pink clouds Around the
salmon pink clouds ran distorted frame
works Of very yellow gilt Doubtless the
! person who designed the ceiling thought
, 1t was Louis the Something style. but II
/ looked - II q scene painter had hNen try
ing to improve the appearance OF con-
tract fresco
However. the cheerful spaciousne-a Of
the room partly atonecl' for the ceiling and
II you kept your head down and attended
strictly 10 the business OF eating (which
wcs wha' tho room WAS forI yea did not
have to look a. the rubber Cupids The
/ front Of the room was composed princi-
( rally Of window II vas window all the
way from the ceiling to the hoor. and the
only interruption was here and there a
slim panel to which the wiadows were
effi Xed
They were French windows and opened
like doors Outside was a terrace % grass
with borders of brilliant flowers. Beyond
these was a lawn edged with tall trees,
and through these trees from IN the break
fest room you could catch glimpSes Of a
green lake backed by purple mountains.
The man and his wife en- JOY cd ca ting their
breakfast in the room Most Americans
when IN Europe gel out Of bed take a
bath when they can Get il. throw on a
wrapper and u pair ~ slippers. and then
ring for breakfast To bs sent 10 the bed-
room The American thinks he shows
great familiarity with the customs Of the
country when he docs this He believes
in his soul that all Europeans do It end
thct Ivy doing lik~rise he reve-ls himself
AS a true citizen ~ the world. ~ home IN
every cline. Pesides it c,s;s q little more.
and one ~ IN" principal rims ~ all Ameri-
cans abroad IL 10 find out the most e1rcn-
sive way 81 doing everything This il
one ~ the things that help every ono To
know that they are Americans
Europeans do not find il necessary Ia
so about trying TO convince the world
that they are very rich Most ~ them
seem To he unconoerned about what the
world thinks. They seem to feel per.
fectlV certain that their POSITION will not
be mistaken.
Old Austrian counte.ss-. whose families
date back to the Middle Ages put up in
Vienna AZ a hotel with a nm. Aust rian
name where no Americans ever 20 10
cause It does not cust enough and because
other Americans will not see them In the
act ~ being rich. The countesses never
worry about this. for they are sure to
neet other countesses who know they are
ColnteSses and who do not try to find
out what their income H. but the Amer
can who goes to Vienna must stop At a
certain hotel in the Ring or he u lost
50 too he must have his breakfast
sent uretaIrs lest some other American
see him eating II in the restaurant and
susre"t that he - trying To save half a
crown But the man and his wife did
not care whether other Americans thought
them poor or not They were no, trying
to ret INTO rocIety. They were walking
pea cefully through this vale 81 sorrows
occupying themselves with their own
AFFAIR.". and while in Europe trying to
live among the Europeans and get away
from their vociferous countrymen
While they were sitting at breakfast in
the white room there entered q silver
haired woman with a face Of comfort
She sat Al a large table and presently
there entered unto her q man who bent
and kissed her hand before he took his
seat. few moments later two young
men entered and they in turn kissed her
hand. Then a young woman came and
she kissed the older woman's lps. and
when they all began TO talk the man and
his wife discovered that they were
AustriAns
Presently a child entered the room II
vas a pretty little girl or years old
with hATen hair and large gray eyes.
She was singing when she entered the
dining room. and the Austrians stopped
talking and stared at each other in a.
constituent The child sat down and in
irnperious tones called the waiter She
gave her order loudly and began a shrill
conversation with the maItre d'hoCeI
For twenty minutes she dominated
that restaurant. making piercing sounds
with her incessant chatter. sin RinR. kick
ing her heels against the chair rung and
rafting the things on the table IL was
impossible for other persons in the room
IN converr@ When she had finished her
meal she rusa and started out of the room
singing The man and his wife kazed
a, her sadly She saw them and throwing
up UrT Ue-asl WIN - t'-S rhl1 ln drawing
and nsolenf tones
oh dear"
The Austrians glanced swiftly AZ the
man and his wife and then AZ one another.
Then the mother said to the Others in an
undertone:
An American child
SO II was; and the man and wife
many other American
children whom they had seen in Europe.
and also many European children. and
they were compelled TO admit TO one
another that tho American children did
not shine IN comparison.
What 10 the ma ter with the American
chIldren2- asked the man
You must he singularly unobservant
n you cannot answer that question for
yourself responded his wife IN q calm
manner.
I arm all things that begin with the
syllable un. replied the man.
That ~ glttering generalization.
and like all that glitter- ~ - too gifted in