Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-22
Outside Point of Wen

Because America is too crude and
because The people here do not under
stand her Mrs. Anne Warner French
left today TO make her permanent resi-
, dence in England
Born. educated and married in ST.
Paul. the author of The Regeneration
Of Aunt Mary and the Susan Clegg
stories has been pointed to with pride
for many years by ST. Paul and Min
rosetta people. Now she claims that she
| Is entirely traHsplarted.
" This country is really very young
and very crude she explains. and it
is difficult for the people. especially the
women to feel what my work feels TO
me and to respect it. Women of Amer
lea. tho they are petted and pampercd
as nowhere else, are not expected to
enter the real world of affairs. The
men do not take them into i, with them
and SO that can not GRASP whit my ser
ious work may mean to me.
English girls are trained as their
brothers so that when they are mature,
they take an earnest. active, and in
telligent part in social, political, and
economic affairs. With thoughtful and
sympathetic consideration for my work.
they never think Of disturbing me,
coming to visit me only when invited
and are not hurt if not often required
to be my guests, but they are my sim
cere friends, and when l 60 to London
for few days my time is planned out
for me and I am delightfully."- dined and
entertained by people who can talk
most interestingly on a variety of sub
jectS-never personalities
Nothing but slang fits the above.
Now, wouldn't that jar youo" Sure,
sit makes me tired" Ina CINE having
woman Of that kind, woman that
seriously talks such balderdash-for a
wife. Never disturb my work. only
when invited. ETC. And this Mrs.
French is product of the wild and
fWoolly west. What have we done to
be thus punished by this gifted author!
ess leaving US forever? Why can't we
understand her? Why are we not able
! to grasp her serious work? ," But
/ after all she said something. people
who can talk most interestingly on a
variety Of subjects-never personali-
ties
For once she smote US fairly In the
face. We do talk personalities to the
! exclusion of nearly everything else.
Listen at the next gathering you hap
pen to be one Of the many. We talk OF
musicians rather than music. Artists
rather than art. Preachers more than
sermons. We talk shop because we
know NICE about 1t than other things.
Our children grow up hearing day
after day in the family circle. the gen.
eral conversation about persons rather
than things. Conversation as this vol
unfairly transplanted Mrs. French
! finds in England is really a lost art in
! ST. Paul and elsewhere in the west
That's not the way to put It, It is
not lost art because we never have
possessed it. OF course this statement
is too general, too wide. Once In a
While. even in society, people converse
but If they keep it up any length OF
tince they are voted bores. A woman
that "converses" is soon dubbed a blue
stocking. A man that dares to talk OF
ANYTHING but baseball automobiling OF
golf soon finds he has no listeners
What is all this leading to? Nothing
absolutely nothing. only it seems funny
that a woman giving a reporter such a
lot of "tommyrot' should really say
something.