The evening world., 1911-09-20

Ovoh ~ NOooiuio, W hVo ShoAo uoPP'
Only . few weeks ago Mrs. Anne
Warner French. an American author
shook the dust OF her native soil from
her spurning feet. and set sail for Eng
land.
The American atmosphere 10 TOO
crude-I cannot work IN IT," wss her e.
PLANTATION.
What 10 the matter With these
American womsn9
And with the scores OF otnsx
daughters or wives Of American
men who return from . SIX WssAs
tour OF Europe with = patronasins
distasts for their native landf
II We look at the portraits OF Amer'-
can girls who have married Ensiish-
men. nine-tenths Of them will show the
deadly, hideous British fringe or frizzsd
bang with which daughters OF ALBION
disngure themselves. There Is q young
French duchess (born out West some
where) whose friends discovered re-
Gently when she returned to the United
states on a visit that she now speaks
English with an Anna Held accent
Mary Garden. born In Scotland and
brought up In New York. 10 ~noticeably
Gallo In her speech and mannerisms
But It Is useless to cite sporadic In
stances of this singular preference Tor
foreign men and manners. to say moth
Ing OF morals.
SHOULD BE TAXED Tor "uN.
sPEAkAeLE FOOLlShNEss."
An American woman who acquires .
French or British accent 10 unspeak-
ably silly. She should be required to
pay 10 or 100 per cent. duty on her I'm
portations of speech as upon other tro-
phies Of foreign travel. Not even 500
worth of broad AS or Gallo shrugs
should be permitted to come In free OF
duty. Silller ever 10 an American au-
thor who parrots the catch-phrase OF
the foreign dilettante o the crude
ness of America" She should remem-
Der that when this particular criticism
is uttered our novelists are invariably
mentioned first.
All these women are victims OF "exag-
gerated ego.' which Is q popular fem
mime disease these days. But certainly
the most pitiful OF them all Is the indi-
vldual who spends the money OF an
American father or husband to find out
that American men are DOORS"
Now. exactly what does the grand
daughter Of ex-Gov. Spragus mean by
"boors?" Having had exactly the same
sort OF education In a French convent
which the young woman mentions as
having influenced her point of view. l
may be able to discuss the differences
between French and American men
without crude fiag-waving on the one
hand. or provincial and discriminating
admiration on the other.
LATIN DIFFERENCE TO WOMEN
WELLS CONTEMPT.
The Latin races have an Oriental
contempt for and distrust OF
women, combined with an un-
pleasantly practical nssd OF them
o. wives and mothers. The Latin
manner OF exaggerated Difference,
Of nowery compliment, OF subtle
fencing for coqustry. 10 merely the
veil which hides from the Latin
woman the crude realities Of her
existence.
The more closely a European woman
sdheres 10 the accepted type OF human
Incubator the more she inspires respect
in the European man, to wnom. on the
contrary. the daring. unknown and. al
most Invariably. misunderstood Ameri-
can woman is a dlsquieting intoxication.
Perhaps the main difference bet the
American and the Frenchman is that
tie former begins by taking a woman
at her W valuation. while the latter
Is possessed by his own theory Of all
women which the individual woman has
to disprove. =
yAs American mas. - Q ssIS =