Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
SEES MANY FAULTS
IN AMERICAN
WOMEN
Scathing Arrangement by a Cam
did Swedish Writer-caIls
Them Selfish, Poor Mothers,
Characterized by Lack of Self
Control, Naggers of Husbands,
Spoilers OF Home, and Follow
Lives of Social Butterflies.

| 1.-TWO VI OVOLQI DuttCl titCos
EA ELOW are some of the first In
! # Id pressions made by America i
| general and American wome
@ in particular on Ezra Heliberg
an observant and up-to-dat
young Swedish newspaper woman. nov
In this country for the purpose o
sending back descriptive articles
about us to the paper which employ!
her, a leading Liberal organ of Stock
holm. the capital OF her native land
The article is reprinted from the Bos
ton Herald:
America is like a painting, thea
ter curtain which is, at first, taken fol
| the real scene, looked at, criticised
! and judged Then all of sudden you
discover that there is peephole in
the curtain, that the perspective was
only painted, and you realize that be
yond there is something quite differ.
ent
There is so much to listen to and SO
much to see.
you have never seen before is the
American woman.
One comes from Europe; from Ber-
lin, where the domestic "hausfrau
mends stockings, bears children and is
eminently respectable; from that gay
sinner, Paris, who keeps an open
house for the worlds intelligence and
where Marie Antoinette still puts her
high small heels on the asphalt pave
ment; from the Scandinavian coun-
tries, where the women go silent, hur-
r1ed and dreaming between the office,
the university and the home; from
Rome, Madrid or Lisbon, where the
woman, be she rich or poor, dances
with naked feet on the sunIit road,
and, with a jug of wine on her shout
er. smiles with her dark eyes and
sings out: Your health"
trom these one comes to America,
to the American woman.
You find yourself in the eddy-whirIs
of main thoroughfare, you feel the
pulse of mighty town of millions
You saunter between buildings of
many stories above ground.
Or you-but no, will not try to de-
scribe any great American city. Even
diiettante for the gigantic engineering
skill which is the creative power over
here, / will not tire readers with that
which is close at hand for the Euro
pean visitor to stop and look at.
The Woman the Attraction.
The woman in the river of human
ity is always the startling thing where
ever she is. She is the life of the
street; she 1t is who gives the street
its color. But in Europe she is never |
what she is here in America. Over |
there wherever you meet her she
melts into the surroundings, she is
like the pearl in beautiful ornament |
on which the jeweler has spent much |
laborious work.
She is a part of the whole. Her
very figure, her walk, her way of
dressing, her manners, have sprung
directly from her immediate surround
ings.
She is the child of the natural seen
cry. the child of Architecture.
Look at the Scandinavian countries
with their small frame houses or big
stone palaces, with their door-knock-
ers. their high, spacious rooms and
through which the sunbeams
play on well scrubbed floors. Look at
the German cities, with their irregular
streets, their corbel-step houses, their
market places where the grass grows
between the cobble stones. Look at
the white loggias on the green hills OF
South Europe. the old doge palaces,
the gothic art In the chateaux OF
Paris, the slender spires, the broad
avenues. Look at England-crowded,
but old-fashioned and dignified. All of
hem make picture in which the
woman in the street is a detail; beau
.iful, peculiar and stimulating.
But here in America, the painting is
changed. There is not a !
spark of phantasy, of dreams of vener-
alton. of longing, of old-fashioned
beauty, nothing which amalgamates
With the grace. the poetry, the pic
uresqueness in feminine personality.
Is Type Unique.
The woman in America is not like
he woman anywhere else. She is
Yearly related to the English woman,
'ut the English girl is softer In her
makeup than the American. She does
lot. however, possess the brilliant
reacury of a practical mind combined |
With intelligence which is character
site of the woman OF the new world.
What first impresses you is the phys !
cal superiority of the American I
Voman. Here Is a personal cleanli- g
ess which is lacking in Europe. ~
elieve that bathrooms are more pow i,
rful agents in the development of a
atoms health than almost anything
lse.
Her physical fvne fc ctrc,,c o~x,I -