Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-23
"They Are" Says Lively Mile. Regnault the
Distinguished Partisan Portrait
Painter, They're Not" Says Rose O'Neill the
Famous American illustrator

cut short ana evenly all round.
More often than not he is bald and
then he leaves his badness like a
neglected garden instead of brushing
the hair up coquettishly round it.
Three-quarters of the American
men met wore spectacles. Never
did they wear single eyeglass as
European gentleman would have
done. o l suppose they have neither
the courage nor the brains to do it!
A monocle lends so much distinction
to a man. One with black rim and
black band entirely transforms the
face of a pale, meek man. There
are twenty-seven different ways of
carrying a monocle, and everyone of
them gives individuality to the
wearer. The European army officers
always wear monocles, because they
know it helps to make them look
fierce. Diplomatists wear them be-
cause you cannot read the mind of a
man with monocle.
The young American man looks
like a sheep, the old one like a
monkey. Is it not a curious evolu-
ton?
oh how affreusement triste is
your American business man! He
has a gray face, gray hair and gray
clothes. Is it possible to describe
anything more desolate? I'll est bette
a faire pleurer." HE is stupid
enough to make you weep" as we
say in France-sometimes.
1t is impossible for the artist to
paint the American man. There is
no color to him, nothing that stands
out. 1t is equally impossible to
caricature him. Artistically he is a
nullity. If he had only a red nose
like the commonest Englishman, or
cash across his face, like a Ger
man, one might do something, but
there is not a redeeming feature.
No expression, no whiskers-just
nothing
The American has no converse.
ton, but | regret to say that he can
talk. He has no conception of carry
ing on a delicately personal CONVEX
satlon, such as a French gentleman
delights in. The American man can
only tell stories-and such stories,
All, mademoiselle," he saws. $50 Won
come from gay Paree." Then he
laughs as though he had said some
thing dreadfully funny, and he goes
on TO tell story about a man from
chicago who went to Paris and made
shocking faux pas.
The American men have no figures.
no carriage, no distinction. Some
OF them are absurdly thin, and others
are ridiculously fat. They stand on
their heels and walk about like me-
chanical dolls.
Their clothes are like themselves
-ready-made and uninteresting. II
seems to me as if the suit had been
maze hrst and that then the man
mad been poured into it. But | have
been told until grow sick that this
or that rich American was "self.
made" Ciel! Why did he not have
some one else do the work.
All the faults of the American man
arise from his one fault of falling to
appreciate the American woman as
sne should be appreciated. The
American husband takes all or most
or his money to his wife, and then
ne boasts about it brutally. For her
beauty, her society, Ter esprit, her
art. her charming costumes he has
little appreciation. The French gen.
tleman maintains a chivalrous devo-
ton to all women that never ceases
or wearies even in the most disoon.
certing and painful moments of life.
To the American man woman is a
toy; to the French man, she is all
of life.
Here you see the reason why the
richest and prettiest American girls
SO gladly seize the opportunity to
marry the European men. Even the
most undistinguished Europeans ap-
pear interesting by the side Of the
average American man.
How much rather would be the
bride of Servian, a Bulgarian, or
even a Turk, than of a plain, dull
American man! OF course, the Amer
lean girl, when she has had an OPP
portunity to compare the men of the
world. feels the same way.
1t is. through the society of women
that men become civilized. The
amazingly dull American man tells
me that he is kind to his women and
gives them money. 1t is the attitude
of the farmer toward his cattle. He
has no conception Of what she might
do for him by sharpening his wits
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