Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-31

10 seems to me imperative thaN some
lead should be given 10 the women Of
England. 50 that out OF the chaos they
may be helped TO form saner ideals,
nobler principles, and a larger concep-
ton OF the place which awaits them
when peace is once more established.
Il feel confident that women every
where are waiting for this message. and
that they are looking to the known
leaders OF social life for the inspiration
(which will help them to find them
yes"
he editor OF PeaTson's wants this
iter's suggestions, and they are given
dly and freely through the medium
the Evening journal.
rffhere are no more charming and low
able women on earth than the English
women when one comes to know them.
There is only one other country which
can produce more disagreeable women,
when met casually, in travel and at re
sorts. than England has produced.
II the English woman wants now to
find herself let her first see herself as
others see her Let her know that the
cold. distant, naughty exterior which
she carries into the world and which
she utterly discards like a mask (as IL
is) in her own home, is unbecoming, and
that It swskens in the hearts of ami
able and kind people impulses OF resent
nent and dislike which are destructive
TO both the sender and the receiver.
II does not create a Christian feeling
or promuigats that sense OF brotherhood
and sisterhood which must exist before
the New Golden Age can be established
on earth.
A two weeks stay in an English re-
sort a few years ago aroused in our
fearts-the hearts of two very good
tured and amiahle Americans sense
of evaporation toward two English peo-
pie, who sat at the table next our won,
- who were often near US in the
sic room and elsewhere.
Dur slight overtures toward courteous
5Rtment were met with a cold stare,
Hnd utter Indifference marked their de-
meanor during the entire fortnight. Sim
liar experiences had been passed through
on ships and at other resorts in EnglapS
and in English colonies.
on leaving one place we were, curl
ously enough, placed in the same COM
partment with the naughty couple
when. 10 and behold! after few hours
the mask was thrown aside and the de-
lightful, cultured and genial English ma
to the home OF this couple, and have for
a period OF several years been the best
of friends.
The man is an officer at the front to-
day and the wife a Red Cross nurse. 1t
was discovered that her distant manner
really hid a timid and shrinking nature
which lacked self-confidence and po!se
in meeting strangers.
This 10 frequently the explanation of
this English fragidlty of department;
D ndeportment which conceals hearts as
warm and genial as any which beat in
human breasts. But let the English
women know that their attitude is un-
necessarily and disagreeRbly repelling,
and let them realize that IL they would
be helpers in the world and lifteTs Of
the race they must unbend and unmask.
Then let all right thinking English
women start a crusade against the smok-
ing habit which charaeterises the ma
tion. II was from England. not from
Russia or Turkey, or any other land,
that the American women adopted this
ungraceful and unsanitary habit
The smart women OF England took
it up-heAven only knows why or how;
but we first saw II In the English plays,
and We later saw Il In English drawing
4.
Ships, and in truth everywhere that we
saw the English woman OF position.
So universal has II been for some years.
that one who was a visitor in England
and did not smoke was obliged TO ex-
plain her ''eccentricity"
II. as the editor OF Pearson's says, the
English women are waiting TO find their
place OF usefulness when peace is estab-
lished. let them drop this unlovely habit.
Then. perhaps, the American women.
who pattern all their vices after foreign
fashions, will throw away their cigar
cites, and come into the march OF prog
ress toward cleaner and saner way
of life.
We asked n distinguished and bril-
liant Englishman who was at the head OF
the medical department in Ceylon. why
is il that English people in general
and English women in particular. are
the most disagreeable human beings one
meets abroad, and the most delightful
and lovable OF souls when met in their
own land and homes?"
IT don't know why It is." he replied
but / do know il Is a fact see 1,
and hear II expressed wherever I 60
One thing. English women are In truth
very retiring and timid by nature, and
the limelight. They shield themselveI
IN consequence behind this distant de,
meanor, which is often mistaken fol
and indifference TO 9th,
, rs"
But since this demeanor has caused thu
English woman TO be disliked so uni
versslly when she is met outside OF hei
home, II would be well for her now tC
consider the advisbility Of changing hel
manner 10 one of gracious affability ant
kindliness; let her not be afraid TO show
The transient acquaintance or the stran
ger encountered in travel a little OF th'
lovely nature and tender heart which
characterize her in her native heath,
Trusting the editor OF Pearson's viii
pass on these suggestions from one Amer
lean wcnan 10 all English women, an
his and theirs for reform.