Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-09-13

Mr. Choate are types OF American
statesmen. Certainly all three were
thoroughly cultivated men. In Ger
many l met with the same uncultured
election procedure as 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. L found
something like it In Merrie Old Eng
land, so that finally / came to the cDn-
clusion that this not overrefined fea-
ture in politics is far from being an
American popularity.
The American father will say This
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.
The average run OF children is
healthy and anything you please but
hysterical and nervous; they would
compare very we'll indeed with the
average run of English hopef,lls.
Let it suffice to recollect the i'm
portant services rendered to- the cul.
tured interests of the world by Ameri-
ca as the permanent sociological
laboratory where most of the present
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 insplence 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 il would Ill
most appear to be bad ethics on the
part of the pot to accuse the kettle
at the same hearth of being black.
Yol certainly encounter the broad
est, most generous and most enjoy
able hospitality when invited by some
SeuJISlI1dH " Ills COQltIAy SCGAJ tAAONiSN
of course invitations do not occur
without your passing previously a
strict examination.
Excepting young clerks, office boys
and other young hopefuls, who accom-
pIish marvels in swallowing all kinds
of cakes and tarts at luncheon time,
you will hardly find anything really
resembling eating among the serious
men of business at that time Of the
day. A generous breakfaS: is thu
customary rule before leaving home,
then very little, if anything, for lunch,
and 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
Shakespeare reciter, Artemus Ward
and Mark Twain are too precious a
possession of the English-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 it's counterpart in England.
Leaving the cockney and Londoners'
Whitechapel as duly countered by the
Bowery of New York, we face the I'm
deniable fact that any Euglishman
travelling the 5000 miles from New
York to San Francisco and the Cali
fornia coast will be at fewer pains to
understand and be understood than
an American journeying some couple
of hundred miles or even less in Eng
land with it's localisms changing With
almost every county of the realm.