Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-05-03
SEES MANY IN! FAULTS
IN AMERICAN
WOMEN
Scathing Arrangement by a Can
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.

pressiOns made by America IL
general and American women
in particular on Ezra Heliberg
an observant and up-to-date
young Swedish newspaper woman. now
In this country for the purpose Of
sending back descriptive articles
about us to the paper which employs
her, leading Liberal organ Of Stock.
holm, the capital OF her native land.
The article is reprinted from the Bos-
ton He4ald:
America is like painting, thea
Ter curtain which is, at first, taken fer
the real scene, looked at, criticised
aud judged. Then all of sudden you
discover that there Is a peephole in
the curtain, that the perspective was
only painted, and you realize that be-
yond there IL something quite differ-
emit
There is SO much to listen to and so
much to see.
The first OF all those things which
you have never seen before Is the
American woman.
One comes from Europe; from Ber-
lin, where the domestic 'hausfrau"
C1ends 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
1nent; from the Scandinavian coun-
tries, where the women go silent, hur-
T1ed 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 sunlit road.
and, with Jug of wine on her shout
or. smiles with her dark eyes and
sings out: your health"
IRON these one comes to America.
to the American woman.
You find yourself in the eddy-whirls
Of a main thoroughfare, you feel the
pulse Of a mighty town of millions.
You, lunter between buildings OF
many stories above ground.
Or you-but no, will not try to de-
scribe any great American city. Even
though l have the admiration OF a
dilettante for the gigantic engineering
skill which Is the creative power over
here, l 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 seem
cry, the child of the 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
windows, 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
taeh&hite 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
them make a picture in which the
woman in the street is detail; beau
tiful, peculiar and stimulating.
But here in America, the painting Is
wonderfully changed. There Is not
spark of phantasy, of dreams OF vener-
alton. Of longing. of old-fashioned
beauty, nothing which amaigamates
with the grace, the poetry, the pic
turesQueness in feminine personality.
10 Type Unique.
The woman in America Is not like
the woman anywhere else. She is
nearly related to the English woman,
but the English girl is softer in her
makeup than the American. She does
not. however, possess the brilliant
treacury of practical mind combined
with intelligence which is character
fstic of the woman of the new world.
What first impresses you is the phys
fcal superiority OF the American
woman. Here is a personal cleanli-
ness which is lacking in Europe.
believe that bathrooms are more pow
erful agents in the development OF a
uation's health than almost anything
else.
Her physical type is strong and
elastic. She has way OF raising her
head and carrying her body with a
self-consciousness born of perfect and
unrestricted liberty.
TIE German woman has an unre-
fined but honest expression of face.
Herllutch cousin is like her, but is
EofUfigid, and lacks the Anglo-Saxon
supplsn ess. The woman OF South Eu-