Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-06
LOVE OF LUXURY running THE
AMERICAN WOMEN, SAYS GERMAN
CBy Margaret Hubbard Ayer)

by Margaret Hubbard Ayer)
THE first thing that impresses a
foreigner in this country is the ire.
mendous luxury one sees everywhere
But does this not set terrible exam
pie to people of small means, and does
! it not make women very extravagant
to see all the luxury constantly pa
raded before their eyes?"
Nine. Frieda Hemple asked the
question today, and the daily papers
answered her. They told the tale Of
the little shopgirl of It, who dazzled
by all the beautiful things around her
which she could not have, had trained
herself Systematically to be a pick
pocket until she was caught by the
police
The newspapers told of Dr. Angen-
cite Parry, who says that college girls
demand an income not less than $1O,-
600 when they marry, and college girls
are supposed to think more of the
higher life than of automobiling and
other frivolous things.
AS l related these incidents to Nine.
Hemple, which point the way the wind
blows, the famous coloratura soprano,
the rara avis of the opera nowadays,
looked at me with wide, astonishing
eyes.
But this is dreadful. Ten THOUSAND
dollars? We have no women's COZ
leges in Germany. Perhaps it is just
as we'll The women are allowed to
study at many of the big universities,
but there they get some idea of the av-
erage income of the university gradu-
ate, and they know enough not 10
expect the impossible"
The young prima donna is the sim
plest and most natural of persons. Her
plain tailor suit, her smart little hat
and face quite as nature made it,
and very pretty in consequence, ex-
press frank and sincere personal
ity.
The German girl marries for lose
1--WE are a sentimental nation), and #
she gets love in return, that is
CROUCH continued the singer.
"Of course marriages are arranged
in which money plays great part.
The girl brings the money to the
young man, a title of great social posi-
ton, but these are marriages of cou-
venience.
I'm all lands the rich mans vile
will spend just as much as she can
get She does the same here as in
Berlin or Paris. The reason there is
so much luxury here is because there
are more rich people, more rich men.
Madame Hemple disposed of the
subject of luxury while in the lower
parts of the town the streets vera
black with crowds of striking men
and women, the very people who
manufacture many Of the "luxuries, =
and little Bessie Gartenberk was ex-
planning to Justice Hoyt that it was
the easiest thing to pick pockets
and get money to buy the luxuries
that she wanted.
The question of morals and econ
omics in the days news was too much
Of a problem for the singer of highest
top notes, as it is for the the most OF
US
"All this display of wealth is I'M
doubtedly setting an unfortunate ey-
ample because everyone wants what
the others have. But American wo-
men look as if they got what they
wanted anyhow"
The German prima donna went on,
We all marvel that women of all sta
tons in life are so perfectly dressed
over here. To see the American wo-
man at her best l think you must see
her on horseback. There she is per.
feet. My one desire is to ride like an
American woman. But don't ask ne
to be a suffragist"