The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-05

Mr.. Choate are types of American
statesmen. Certainly all three were
thoroughly cultivated men. In Ger
many | met with the same uncultured
election procedure a. In the United
States-gross personal blackmail. pro
duced In the same way. only with less
good nature and apparently In full
earnest. In Russia ] heard the Wild
est abuse of some OF the best and
cleanest men In the country. found
something like It In Merrie Old Eng
land, 80 that finally came to the con-
clusion that this not overrefined fea-
ture In politics is far from being an
American popularity.
The American father will say his
boy has to touch bottom when young"
and touching bottom In the United
States means an early mutual under
standing with the healthy element OF
earnest workers from below and not
intercourse with the few vanished
figures above a4
The average run of children Is
healthy and anything you please but
hysterical and nervous; they would
compare very well indeed with the
average run of English hopefuls.
Let II suffice to recollect the Inn
portant services rendered to the cul.
tured interests of the world by Ameri-
ca as the permanent sociological
Iohoratnry uhara ,nost ~ tho praoaut
isms and even some embryos OF fu-
ture vagaries have never ceased to be
experimental upon.
The American Is just the man who
appreciates personality In the fullest
sense of the word AS to the trade
mark of the common insolence among
the inferior, 1t Is an International
characteristic, only perhaps more no
ticeable in America. National brag
is trait possessed In common with
the English cousin, and 1t would al
most appear to be bad ethics on the
part of the pot to accuse the Kettle
at the same hearth of being black.
You certainly encounter the broad
est, most generous and most enjoy
able hospitality when invited by some
gentleman to his country seat. though
of course invitations do not occur
without your passing previously q
strict examination.
Excepting young clerks, office boys
and other young hopefuls. who accom-
plish marvels In swallowing all kinds
of cakes and tarts at luncheon time,
you will hardly find anything really
eating among the serious
men of business at that time Of the
day. A generous breakfast Is the
customary rule before leaving home.
then very little, II anything. for lunch.
and a full spread for dinner at home
In the evening. Any drinking, and 1t
Is very little prevalent except at din
ner and after dinner, is INDUCED in
only outside of office and working
hours.
OF the American humor there Is no
need to speak Old Sam Slick, the
Clock Maker" Methody preacher and
and Mark Twain are too precious
possession OF the Englfsh-lOving feel
Ing and speaking people all over the
world to need a defense.
AS to the English language used In
america. the popular medium is, far
ahead of its counterpart in England
leaving the cockney and ,Londoners'
as duly countered by the
3owery of New York, we face the un.
leniable fact that any Englishman
raveling the 5000 miles from New
York to San Francisco and the Cali
ornia coast will be at fewer pains to
understand and be understood than
N American journeying some couple
II hundred miles or even less in Eng
and. with its localisms changing with
4lmost every county of the realm.