The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-30
FOREIGN VIEWS OF THE AMERICAN WOMEN

stdIlu tnat some American
make the. proposals. of marriage.
Ihat j dotnot doubt after Watching
them making themselves agreeable to
II MAJ at dinner. Lam not at all
surprised that American men do not
make love we'll. Tho women save
them the trouble"
Commenting on the foregoing, the
Indian editor reminds his. readers
that the Maharani sis not a western
woman, and therefore she does not
know. not having cultivated it, the
trick Of c~encealing or CLOSING over
her thoughts" Which comment rath-
er takes ones breath.
another woman Of India has also
expressed herself concerning US. The
Princess Prativa was reported In
London to have said this:
The women of the rest of the
world are SO unhappy. We Of india
alone know the art Of happiness. !
am glad that there is an opportunity
TO carry the gospel Of peace into the
nations of the restless. l want to so
to America. for 1t is the most rest
less. unhappy land Of all. have
been told that America is very rich.
Yes. yes: but what of that? We
judge a nation. by the status Of its
women. and the status Of the Ameri-
can women is eternal Unrest. One
woman once said to me, I have moth
ing but money. and I'm tired Of
philosophy without which life is a
whirlpool and the world Is a vast tur-
moil.> They talk loudly. They try to
lbe -sprightlS. and only succeed in
making ugly faces. :, They are not
enough alone. They do not read
enough. They chatter too much and
think toe little"
' And this from a land where the
percentage of women who know how
to read and write Is less. than six in a
thousand! -
There are evidently calms and
cai,nes. or Us there a difference be-
tween stupidity and peace? 1t was. "a
different story that was told by an
other woman of India. who looked
into the face Of her American teach
er and said, Your shastras must
have been written by a woman. they
speak SO 'tenderly of u.s..
But. after all. we are more con-
cerped with the opinions of our
nearer neighbors. the people of a CIV
flization like our own.
The German View.
This opinion appeared as a stimu-
latinE breeze. OF a sudden slap i'm the
face, to American reader who
he'd by chance picked up n copy OF
"uber Land und Meer." and was at
tracted by a; beautifully illustrated
article on the Yellowstone park, the
Opening sentence of which was SUBJ
stantially this: I've all know tina
Americans are so given to exaggera-
ton that we canno believe all they
say. but really they cannot overstatc
the beauties of Yellowstone park \
delicious frankness that causes one tn
gasp. but it is something to have The
scenic beauties of America recognize
ed.
But to return to the subject. A
few years ago a German author. Will
lam Polenz. wrote a book on America
which he called THE Land of the
Future" One chapter is devoted 10
american Women" We read with
humility:
1.-THE American family life has, like
all which is good and great in The
new world. it's roots in tho mother
land of Europe. Fol- secredness
be given the position which woman
holds in the family, and the consid-
GRAFTON which men give her" (Why
! not give: American men credit fol
their peculiar respect and considera
ton for women. since it is uniquely
He Is particularly interested. in our
Treatment of marriage and divorce
and. while: severely criticising the
lack of uniform laws of divorce in all
the states. he approves of the ease
with which divorce may be obtained:
But generally the tendency i'm the
practice OF law is towards making di-
vorce easy. In spite of family scandal
attending unusual vents in America
tdtvorces arc the order of the day. and
in all conditions. For the morality OF
the people this is indeed no injury,
for no mistake is more human than