The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-18
WOMAN UpLlFTS
PINK SHIRT MAN
She Is AmarlCa's Rnp9 rOr Ret
ter OTiSS, Says EOakman
STUDYING WORLDS MANNERS.

Count Seymore Declares Our Men 10
Not Know How to Harmonic Colors,
and Some of the Results Are Awful.
His Book Is Likely to Guido Dickens
and kipIns.
The ears Of ninety odd million Amer
leans should have tingled recently II
the old superstition be true TINT uu-
complimentary remarks cause the
blood to rush to those organs. The
plain remarks rejecting on the inhul-
| itants OF the greatest of nations cnme
from August Schaefelysky de Aukka-
del de Castellane Seymore of Paris
This Partisan OF proud name also bears
the title Of count. but he does not use
1t, because his mother once told him
to go forth and do something first
and claim the title later"
He is now following that advice,
and among the things which he is do.
ing is making n study of the manners,
dress and customs of the peoples OF
| the world.
With this object in view Count de
Castellane Seymore, who is q member
Of the same family as that fasidi0us
former husband of Anna Gould. who
was also an authority on dress. came
to the United States about twelve
months ago and has Travelled through
practically all sections Of the country
with both eyes open for American pc.
culiarities.
And the count has gathered some
data which, If he makes literary use
Of them, as he says he proposes doing.
will make the American appear to as
great a disadvantage as did the por-
trayals Of either Dickens or Kipling
Criticism of Europeans.
Recently an American newspaper.
the count says. had the audacity To
publish an article suggesting that EU
ropeans needed little brushing up
on dress"
why" remarked the count, "you
| Americans do not know how to dis
tnguish between the proper dress for
wedding breakfast, noon wedding
or an evening wedding. i have travel
ed throughout your country, and
have seen the guests coming to wed
ding breakfasts in swallowtails and
tuXedos. 1t is nothing uncommon to
see an American appear at an even
ing function in swallowtail coat, a
broad expanse Of white shirt front. set
with gold buttons. and black tie.
"Out on the coast l was struck with
the custom of clubmen, who would ar.
ray themselves in evening dress and
parade the streets with topcoats
thrown over their arms, displaying
their dress. as much as to say, Look
who am
mo; the American knows nothing of
dress. And the reason is that he does
not know how to harmonic colors.
Why, darn II, an American will pass
a show window and be attracted by
the very color scheme which the mer-
chants clerks have worked out, and
then he will walk in and purchase a
pink shirt and a green tie. 1t is awful.
But the American is being lifted up
by the American women. In England
John Bull always goes FIRST. while his
wife follows. In America things are
turned around. The woman goes first,
and she is lifting up her husband. She
says, Brush up there: shine up bit,
and the man has to do IT. But you
can't blame the American. He has
been too busy with his machine shops
and meals to give consideration to
dress.
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not taking the highest or lowest strata
of society, but that great middle class
which is the great average In all ma
tons"
His Ideas on Marriage.
The count also has some well defined
IDEAS on marriage. He is a wtdower
and says that he expects that he will
remain one. since IT does not seem
probable that he will discover a part.
uer" whose views accord with his own.
woman has gradually been raised
through several stages until now she
stands on parity with man." he add
ed. Way back in the dark ages she
was chattel property, then man spoke
or her as the female, later as the wife.
and now he is coming to regard her as
the partner. In those former stages
we had marriages OF the eye We are
now coming to the era OF marriages OF
reason. In this era man will seek his
wife for partner and not be guided
by his physical appetites.
PERSONALLY | believe that men and
women should weigh experience and
wealth against each other in making
their choices-that Is, II a man has had
experience in the ways OF the business
world and finds a woman with capital
and no experience. they are well
matched. do not think that the man
should ask, or. II he were the proper