Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1910 — WHO IS THE BEST LOVER. [ARTICLE]

WHO IS THE BEST LOVER.

Bsasnns Why Some People In Enrland Think the EngHshman la. For lone it has been supposed that Englishmen do not make good lovers. It Is said they are too plain, straightforward and downright. They lack, It has been suggested, the finesse and •kill of foreign men In wooing, the London Mirror says. But the statement of Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, the famous American novelist, that If she married again she would marry an Englishman for choice, since he is far the most interesting type, raises the question anew. Inquiries go to show that, In the opinion of some people at any rate, not only is the Englishman a better lover than the American man, but better even than the Frenchman, the Spaniard or the Austrian. Mrs. Atherton added that as her profession made her habltb and home unjtaMe, she did not Intend to marry anybody. But she was sure that men of other than English nationality, and American men especially, lacked the subtlety of the well-bred Englishman, his fitness and his charm of conversation and manner. Another English author, who asked that her Identity might not be disclosed, as she did not wish to quarrel with American friends, spoke even more definitely. “When do you ever hear of English girls marrying Americans?” she asked. “There Is a good reason for this. “However wealthy their parents, the majority of the boys In rich American - homes grow up to be drawing-room hooligans, while their sisters are developing all the refinement and more than the style and Intelligence of European women of corresponding social position. “These young money grubbers of the States enter a ladies’ drawing room looking like furniture removers. They have no graces, no conversation. They are on a lower social plane than their own sisters. “And for this reason, perhaps, they have no power to compel the respect of women. AU true women feel the need of a master, or, as an American would say, a ‘boss.’ “I believe that, every really good woman wants to look upon a man as literally her lord and master. But, of course, she wants to feel that the man Is her superior In all that matters. American women do not find that sort of man among their own countrymen.” Mrs. Elizabeth York Miller, who Is herself an American, and has only lived In England for two years, admitted that the American husband is not so companionable as the English husband. But Americans were very unselfish. They were more generous with their money than Englishmen and allowed their wives more freedom. “As a lover I think the American is sincere. If blunt," she continued. “He says to a girl, ‘Now, Took here, I love you. You are the nicest girl I’ve ever met. Let's get hitched right now.’ From a sentimental point of view this is not Idyllic, but It is straightforward. “The Englishman Is attractive to the American girl because he Is so different from the men she has known. She can’t be ‘pally’ with him, and it takes some time to understand him.”