The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-23
AMERICAN GIRLS
LACK SENTIMENT
Novelist Oppenheim Says
They Are Beautiful, but
Decidedly Cold.

New York, June 23-Having had
jolly, we'll entertained stay with us
for six weeks, you know, f. Phillips
Oppenheim. rapid fire novelist. sailed
on the Oceanic yesterday.
In his rooms at the Majestic he talk.
ed of many things before he left. Most.
~ il was about women-our own Am
erican women, YOU understand,-with
a flutter of comparison now and then
that brought in British and French
women.
And he was surprising, this British
novelist. We are SO used to having
our American women Landed by for.
eign visitors of distinction that when
one of them drags forth his little ham,
mer-why, the jolt is almost enjoya-
BILE II may be said the English novel
list was at no time brutal. His ham,
mer had a velvet cushion on the head
Of 1t, but he was busy with it, just the
same.
"Deucedly self.contained."
He put his hand halftragically to
his forehead when he began about the
women:
"Pretty-beautiful? o, yes, yes; l
should say so. But they're too much
for me. They're-well. they are so
deucedly self-contained; so bally we'll
sure of themselves, don't you know.
They are such a stunning combina-
ton of beauty, new hats. cocktails and
INSTRUMENTATION.
do you know" added Mr.. Open
n 81, .,st bat h~@n L. = o
fair American creatures are totally de-
void Of sentiment. And there you are
really. I've been around great
deal in my six weeks stay-been to
Boston, New York, Newport and other
famous spots. and have seen a good
can society women, and-well, that's
my opinion. They are totally devoid
of sentiment. They do not suggest
and of that charming trait of femi-
ninity which requires that somebody
must be around making love to them.
"An American girl doesn't need any
body to make love to her. If she feels
the necessity she can create the sit
uation. believe me.
where she can positively find and pos
sess man to buy her hats. Appar-
emily she must always have new hats
She can get along without sentiment.
but II life is worth living with her it
must be crowded with hats, hats. hats
"It is different with the English wo-
man. She prefers sentiment always
She can get along happily with last
years hat, but il you take away this
years sentiment she will NOPE grew.
iously. Fact. l assure you.
The novelist. who is trim littel
man with semi-bald head and a Gym
ically turned mouth, looked wholly in
earnest.
"They are not intellectual" he said,
but they are dreadfully inquisitive
They ask SO many searching questions
they suggest the intellectual. but they
really are only inquisitive. But, by
the same token, they are highly stimu-
lating.
Back to Placid English
I'm really quite afraid of them,
you know. They work a fellow SO
hard. you know. Yes, I'm going right
home to the dear, placid sentimental
English women. Not but what your
girls are stunning.
But they all seem so devoid Of
sentiment-beautiful but cold. They
have been compared to French wo-
men, but that's absurd. French wo.
men have no intellect whatever They
don't know anything and nobody
wants them to. They are just attrac-
tive and stand simply on the good old
platform of their sex. And that isn't
disagreeable to fellow, you know"