New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-23
IT'S ALL III SOBER TRUTH.

"Ah you maxim this up as YOU 70
along?" asked the literary critic, still with
his Regent street accent
ole likes to hear himself talk said the
cartoorlst
81 am telling YOU tho sober truth re-
pljc1 the naturallzcd citizen. The peycho-
osv Of tho better class young European on
his way 10 the New World Will be studied
some day His mind expands faster In
! transit than this country has grown.
/ "Ilowevcr 10 return to my representative
case Of the foreign correspondent In Amer
lea. He lands, puts up at hotel that Is
entirely beyond his means, and spends
week or so in seeing New York. a delight
ful village he calls f. or course. 1t IS
not Ike Paris. or Berlin. or London, or
Vienna-where he probably has never been
but It will do. This is mere swagger to
make himself interesting. At heart he Is
! enchanted; this is life at last after the
provincial pleasures OF his home town.
! I'VE will assume that he is not sand
Ragged. or even simply robbed. though his
I behavior actually invites either experience.
EarIv in the second week he visits his con-
sups Office where no Is received with con-
siderable reserve When he has made 1t
plain that he has not come to oorro"
money, or 10 be sent home. Here
depression IS necessary
cut It short, BIZ" said the literary
critic, dropping into Americanese with
startling abruptness
81 am trying to I'll the hiatus In your
knowledge with useful information saiu
the hvphenated American narrator WIN
great dignity. But l can stop right now
Garcon. Laddition! Kellner! Zahlen'
mo. no! Go on Your time Is extended
indefinitely"
.cyyou then. what / am going TO tell you
rou Is not a popularity of the European
abroad alone, but OF the American as well
They ALI 20 around with the mistaken luea
tbot n consul is an official appointed for the
nurpose OF giving pecuniary assistance ~
Ito fcllow-countrymen stranded In iof-
oicr land. Some OF them even go so far
90 IN he convinced that their governments
sunnly special funds for Just such pu-
roee and that the consul Is granting Wheh
no refuses to hand out part OF IL. Inc pe-
l,i.s I'm Intentionally Is also Worid"lue'
IL foreigner arrested for creating puDHc
| disturbance? He at once gets cohiuseu
hut firm idea that, as foreigner ne Is not
c,htect TO the laws Of the country In Whlch
he misbehaves himself, or TO the ORDINANCES
80 the city in which he kicks up rumpus.
~. onneals TO his consul. The consul says
,bJngs 70 himself. so do the vlce-consui ana
chancellor Of the consulate and the
cIorks. Is the immigrant put on the SIDE
u,oik and does his landlady Keep ms TRUNK
40 eecurity? TO the consul! Ana Always
lets and even demands. for money,
often with fabulous tales of delayed remit
,ances on! The foreign consuls In New
York have a happy time Of it with thelr
,,or,igrant countrymen! No wonder there
g., their offices a spirit of uneasness
nd suspicion whenever one of them steps
a. 0 overlooking with affability and certain
- q hearty reception"
van are wandering from your subject
Ia ,ne sunday editor severely. You need
blue penciillng" - ..,..,.or q.
added the cartoonist.
.vbere is your correspondent from
,<an,gspers. or Pauillac. or H1oFruhs