Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
AMERICA H0RR|D?
Too Much ,Buste in Life in
United States.
CRITICISM FROM EUROPE
Charge Made That New Workers. Do
Not Know How to Lve-Rest-
less and Eager.
CRITICISM FROM EUROPE
From the London Standard. !.

From the London Standard.
Yes" the countess Is absolutely right"
said the Rev. Hugh B. Chapman Of the
Chapel Royal Savoy. when his attention
was called to the remarks on America
made by the Countess Krasicka to New
York reporters on her return from Eu-
rope, which were printed in yesterdays
Standard.
'"The countess says that New Workers
don't know how to live; that the average
American has no culture. and that the
statue of liberty did not thrill her one
bit, and she is right. Ny many visits to
the United States have taught me that
there is something rastleess, feverish and
hard in American life that Is absolutely
intoierabe to European Of real culture
Money dominates American life to the
point Of absurdtty, and a visitor Is made
to feel that every one is trying to do him
in the eye.' Americans really don't
know how to live. How we envy you for
your taking life so quietly my good
American friends say to me when visit
them. You don't seem to have any wor-
ries at allv And reply that I'm content
because I don't want anything. Calm
ness, carslessness- those are the great
virtues the American haven't got, and l
1.-The countess says that she doesn't
love her own country. and that. ! assure
you. Is because her countrymen don t
know how to take their amussments.
Iayely Is luuSIcul III CbQE0QSdu pEQpicS-
is natural to them The American. on the
other hand, says, Well. I've been shaving
here long enough. Now I'll knock on and
be gay for three months And forthwith
he labors at his pastime even as he did
at his roll-top desk. 1t is pitiful to watch
him trying to have a good time He lands
In London, fits wildly and nervously
about, ever saying, nasally, I've got to
rush off some cablegrams or Say! how
can I take on Oxford. Canterbury and
Chester in one dayG or Hustle up. thereT
"As for being thrilled at the sight Of
the statue of liberty-no, 1t never i'm
pressed me. much. either Why celebrate
anything SO obvious and matter OF fact as
liberty? The statue is an expression OF
the same trait which leads The American
to boast of the number Of polo ponies and
Italian paintings he possesses
A somewhat different but equally eluci
dating opinion as to the "horridness" OF
America was given to q representative by
DR.. Carl Hagen. an American living In
London Yes" he limited, America is
body. For won, j Of the leisure class.
who prefer all I'ie picturesque and roman
tic reinements lat go with the enjoyment
of ancestral fortunes and ancient estates,
that there is IN the new world. for the
tone of strenuousness In our life reaches
to the women as Well as to the men. In
no country is woman more the sceptered
queen Of the home. with every good thing
layished upon her. than she is with us
with this difference: The American hus-
band is apt to give his wife everything
but himself. He is too busy making
money for her to spend to associate much
with her.
After ALL said DR.. Hagen, IT believe
the countess remarks were simply little
hoax on our rather officious newspaper
men We Americans have good deal of
national vanity, you know, and rather
like to have the incense burned under our
noses The countess had doubtless been
through that ordeal OF landing before and
mentors"