The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-11-29

Mr.. Choate are types of American
statesmen. Certainly all three were
thoroughly. cultivated men. In Ger
many 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 l 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, so that finally came to the con-
clusion that this not overref1ned 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
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 hopefuls.
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 insolence among
the inferior, it is an international
characteristic, only perhaps more no.
ticeable in America. National brag
Is trait possessed In common with
the English cousin, and it 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.
Yoa 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 a
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,
1r3n hor With
resembling 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, if anything. for lunch.
and full spread for dinner at home
in the evening. Any drinking. and it
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 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'
Whitechapel as duly countered by the
Bowery of New York, we face the un.
deniable fact that any Englishman
travelling the 5000 miles from New
York to San Francisco and the Call
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.