Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-07
ELLEN ADATR FINDS
TRUE HOSPITALITY
AMONG AMERICANS
She Sees Less Caution Here
About the Business of
Meeting New People Than
There Is in England.


MI.
The American people as a race strike
me as being most truly hospltable l
think that they have kindly, generous
hearts and that their kindliness is
prompted-in my case, at any rate-by
quite dIsinterested motives.
They love to entertain. aud have their
friends come around. Expecting com
pany'' is the first watchword in the
American housewives category
AT home. in England, we are slower.
much more cautious in the welcoming
of folks. We like to know the why's
and whercfores Of their ancestry "who
are they? Who was their great-grand-
father? What profession do they follow?
Did you say they were in trade? Dear.
dear! now that is rather dreadful. is it
not?' l think in that quite prevalent at
ttude the English point OF view is wrong
too sudden welcoming Of the stran-
ger within our gates would strike us as
bad form" a little vulgar premature.
in England we do not incline to take the
stranger on his outward merits and to
welcome him on those alone. All, no,
We certainly do like to know his family
history. | am an English girl, and deep
within my heart long centuries have bred
that old conception of the Family When
am introduced to now friend instinct
lively / want to know just who his or her
people are, and what they do and all .
about them. Yet | Go not think that
that is snohbCry Instead ii Is the great
unspoken belief in the strong power or
heredity.
There may be many Americans who
have the same dceH-rooted instinct as
myself. can only write Of the great
middle class of each country But taken
as whole X seems to me that over here
the pride of birth is not so strong nor
does IT flourish as it does in England
THE PRIDE OF THE "sELF-MADE."
Yet in its place is pride Of other things-
the pride OF work and Of accomplishment
the pride Of the new self-madc man. the
pride of push and grit and brains.
think that all these things arc very fine
to start with nothing. and to work ones
way right to the very top Of fortunes
ladder is a splendid thing Tho accumu-
latins of great wealth in honest ways
mas Very real moral significance, a high
ethical value.
Here in America no talents over are
allowed to lie deep buried in the earth,
but are unwrapped until they seem to
grow thousandfold. The energy OF this
new country is astounding, One man will
follow dozen professions at the same
time, aFd will engineer a dozen irons in
-tire--cohsuming fires of his business en-
thusiasm - successfully. TOO, Here i'm
America. no mute inElcrious Milton"
ever rests He gets right up and starts
In speculatlng and working hard
knOW thar in -
calm and dignitied. We love our quiet
homes and old, time-honored traditions
Life runs in slower, easier channels We
work less hard, we take our pleasures
in n calmer way.
Life in America goes AT an infinitely
harder pace. The nerves Of England never
would keep up that strain.
PAUsES FOR O'CLOCK
TEA.
Right in the busiest part of London
! have often seen a curious sirht 1t is
a trivial incident. yet will serve to illus
trate my meaning on this point Round
by the Bank of England the heaviest
business of the world goes on. For
blocks one will not src a woman on the
street. Sllk-hatted, frock-coated business
men are crowding each other on the pave
ments for miles around the neighbor-
hood.
When 4 o'clock comes every afternoon.
one sees the stranEest thing. In all
directions, youthful clerks are hurryinE
with cream jugs, carried carefully, Each
business man of London pauses for his
daily cup of afternoon tea, He may have
only half minute 10 spare upon it, but
no pressure OF time can stop him from
this old-established custom. II Is
serious rite, and cannot be omitted,
At o'clock beside the great Stock
Exchange the same thing happens. too.
It happens everywhere in London. II
business Offices are near "a teashop-aud |
in London, every street has half a dozen
tearooms, where you can drink no other |
beverage than tea-Why, business men
slip in there for a cup. But falling such
proximity, the office boy puts on the ket-
tie, and goes out to buy the daily two
pence worth OF cream,
In Fleet street, too, at 1 o'clock, one
sees a hundred ofice boys go scurrying
into all the newspaper offices with little
Jugs of cream For every afternoon. each
London editor must have his cup Of tea.
II is a national rite. The Stock Exchange
may rise and fan, newspaper life may
have its ups and downs, financial crisis
may threaten the business world, but
nothing can upset the cup Of tea at 1
o'clock on every afternoon.
I cannot understand how the American
men can work so hard, year in, year out
achieve so much. and turn night into day
he way they do. Their constitutions
! lust be built Of iron!
, Each Englishman spends almost every
ght at golf and PLAYS on summer
ghts till half past TENN daylight too
J. IS! EnEland's daily round OF life runs
ga gentler pace!
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