Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-05
WOMAN HAS
CHAMPION IN ENGLAND
SPECIALISTS Caustic Criticisms
Refuted by Daily Express
of London.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON. August 81, 1910.
1t was to be expected that some one on
this side OF the water would pounce on
DR.. Stanley Hall Of Clark College.
Worcester, Mass. for defending Irritation
and defining love itself as an "emotive
obsession."
DIR. Emil has done this in the Daily Ex-
press. He has also taken advantage OF
the opportunity to condemn the Ameri-
can woman as a flirt who firts without
having respect for her victim
DR.. Reich does not wonder at all That
DR.. Hall finds that love is merely NOR
bidity among American women. He says
they have no 'pectoral momentum.
which Is the reason they cannot love. and
which Is also the cause OF their thin
voices and the celebrated American
twang. Love and friendship among
American women. says DIR. Reich, have
practically no Importance.
Daily Express Disagrees.
The Daily Express then goes on to say:
This is the same old criticism Of
American women that we have heard
during the past half century. They are
accused Of having no blood, but only tee
water. flowing in their veins. Cold and
bold-this is the criticism most often
heard of them.
Now, the fact Of the matter is that the
average American woman, far from being
cold, is an artist in love. She has keen
perception of all its little shades and
gradations.
Instead of falling in love-, she more
often grows in love-. which is far the
happier and wiser thing Her so-called
Irritation is merely the beginning of what
Dr. Reich names as the war between
men and women But your true Ameri-
can woman does not admit the theory or
a natural war between the sexes. Her
Irritation is the beginning Of the peace
of her soul.
"It has become tie fashion to call the
American woman flirt Yet when We
ask her critics why she is a f1irt they
gives them TO understand that she wants
them to propose to her when she mas
no intention Of accepting them.
This is the basest of ISLANDERS, II II
is applied to American women In the
main. In the spirit of good comradesnip
they accept attentions from men In the
most natural way, without beginning at
once to ponder upon the mems intentions.
American View Of Englishwomen.
The average American does not con-
slider his countrywomen to be fiirts. l
have yet to meet the American man who
says that GOODNESS in love is one OF their
natural traits. Indeed, the American man
looks upon the Englishwoman as cold,
and more than once I have heard
American men accuse the Englishwomen
of knowing nothing Of the rules OF the
game when II comes to friendship as
DISTINGUISHED from courtship.
This Is the reason so many American
men give for a Discrimination to marry
Englishwomen. or. rather. they give It
as their reason for not attempting 10
court them.
BE this as 1t may. the accusation OF
GOODNESS against American women comes
as a Joke to one who really knows them.
Imperviousness to love Is surely not their
DISTINGUISHING trait.
Their lack of 'pectoral momentum
NAV give them a twang. 1t certainly
does not seem to have made them unpop-
ular among men,.