Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 May 1895 — Page 6

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BAB'S LETTER.

THE WAY WE HAVE OF IMPRESSING FOREIGNERS.

American Women "Who Revolutionise £ugllihmtii' Cwttoms—Children With Angel Face* «nd Demon Wayi-LifeloDj .Di»antroQ« .Effects o(Frl(hteninc th«Little Folks.

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All NewJYork has been laughing over the impressions of Count Castellsne— im presslcns that he claims to have gained during bis two weeks'stay in this country. I didn't bother myself about readIng them, for, usually, I have found that Impressions, opinions or sketches of America, writteri by foreigners, are great nonsense. And life is too short to bore one's self with them. The funny thine about the Castellane article is that It is a diatribe against the almighty dollar you would£never think that the Castellane family considered money as worth anything. And yet their oldest son married the daughter of a man whose views in regard to money and the making of it were, to put it plainly, so peculiar that an honest American, or «n honest Englishman, would rather not have mingled with the blood. Not long ago a Frenchman came to New York, stayed seven days at a cheap hotel, and announced that all New York ladies wore white muslin aprons when out walking, and that all American men hired tbeir olothes when they went to evening affairs! What sort of people did he go among?

Then there was another—an Englishman. Now fault-finding is in the British blood. They come over here, find no end of fault with everything, go baok home, flndvno end of fault with everything there die and go to Heaven and find no end of fault with everything there, because it is tbeir nature. An Englishman by birth and education is a brute, but he usually tries to tell the truth just as he makes a violent effort to pay hlsfdebts of honor. AN ENGLISH MAN UNDER AMERICAN

TRAINING.

Physically,|he is the most beautiful specimen inftbe world he knows how to put hlsjolothes on, and be never looks conscious of them. Occasionally an Englishman comes over here and lives. An American woman trains him, knocks some of the brutality out of him, and then he is the nearest thing to a gentleman angel I ever met. Not long ago an English visitor got in a bad temper, went home and wrote a book. One always has tojhave one's peck of dirt, so I thought I (would have mine in one dose and read this book. He told one great truth.&He said the streets of New York were the filthiest in the world but the most surprising thing was to hear—"in fashionable sooiety" gentlemen invariably struck matches on their trou.nersl 3$ He confessed that the effect was peculiar—"he seemed to be drawing Are from that part of his body." Then, to be more positive, he announced that nobody ever strikes matches in any other way! And he confessed that he himself got into the habit. Though since be "has returned to civilization be has not been so naughty." He saw "a very nice girl" do this, but persuaded mother that^it was rather dangerous. I think thatany Englishman or American would begcharmed to meet a nice girl like that. He also said that our cups had no handles, and that an Englishman Is invariably spoken of as a Britisher—a something that is as absolutely unknown In this country as the vulgarity of the man who wrote him down a fool.

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manner, with tbs stride of a man sod thevoioeof a fish woman. She was from England, and had coin* to write a book on this country. She got into the so Called literary set, met women who never bad any position In good society, and pictured them as representing the best element in the oountry. She said all American women painted, all talked through their noses, and that when they wished to entertain, the hostess always read a paper, and there was nothing to eat or drink but stale cake and olaret punohl I know there are some Americans who do speak with the nasal sound, but I think they are found only in the extreme Northeast. The Western woman has an aooent and speaks a little loudly, but her words are distinct and well chosen. New York women are almost entirely free from accent of any kind, and Southern women, if they do out tbeir words a little and forget their r's, usually have sweet, low voices and use good English. They could not only teach this woman how to speak well and gently, but they oould remind her that the hybrid something, with the stride of a man and the vulgarity of a barmaid, seldom commends itself to the world at large as a teaoher of either manners of morals.

SPEAKING OF MANNERS,

the exoluaive set in New York is growing English to this extent—"What I do is right." Not long ago I heard of a woman who occupies an extremely good position in society, saying to her daughter, who objected to getting into an open oar because it was "so common": "My dear, when we are there, it ceases to be common." Then, too, they have taken to dressing as they like for the street. Old clothes are worn out, and if they look shabby it is because "we" oan afford it. The funniest thing done was by an independent young woman of twenty-five. She was going to spend Sunday with a friend in the oountry. She wanted to take a dinner gown and morning dress with her, and she bad no bag large enough to hold both. She sent to the laundry for a basket, and a twohandled one came up to her. The dresses were folded and put in it, and, wearing one of Redfern's duck suits, she boarded the Madison avenue car with her basket, never looked embarrassed, never cared what the people thought, and did what she wished.

Not long ago I sat next to a girl whom I know slightly, the daughter of one of the richest men in New York and the fortunate possessor of some millions from her grandfather. She had on a blue cloth skirt, whole and clean, but old-fashioned in cut a cotton blouse made before big sleeves were in fashion, and an inexpensive hat. She was on her way to a hospital where she is on the committee that looks after the comfort of sick babies. Two over dressed women criticised hei audibly, laughed at her appearance, and seemed to think that their rioh frocks must make them subjects of envy to her. When she left a man sitting near them eould not resist telling them who she was, and I haven't the slightest doubt that they took to thinking and learned one good lessonthat fine feathers do not always make fine birds. FORWARD WOMEN AND WOMEN'S CLUBS.

Bye the bye, one of the most Unpleasant specimens of the new woman is the over-smart girl. One of them met her match the other day. She entered a crowded street oar no man arose to offer his place. Miss Too-Clever sailed up to a man and said to him, "Ob, Mr. Brown, did you offer me your seat? Thank you, I shall be glad to take it, for I am very tlrad." The man got up and said "Why, Sarah, has Mrs. Jones given yon an afternoon outT And on wash day! You must be tired after standing at the tubs all morning." I don't believe she will ever try that game again.

I think men are beginning to discover that the independent woman is too diffusive: Bhe permeates most every place and can't be made to understand that nobody in this world is absolutely independent, and that we would be a very nasty, cocky lot if we were. The young woman who, like Solomon, is immensely puffed up, who twists her hair in a Psyche knot which doesn't harmonize with her pug nose, wears a three-cor-nered hat and sleeves that look like balloons, talks in the street-oar about her club and her paper and the election until you wish she would dissolve, or fade away in some fashion. It is awfully funny, but whenever you are asked to go to a woman's olub, you are spoken or as an "invited guest," as if guests weren't always invited. Most of the ones that I have been to, as the aforesaid "invited guest" were oonspicuous by tbeir noise —every womanlhad an opinion of her own, and each had an amiable desire to speak at the same time. In union there was strength of voices. The member who Invited me told me that they did a great de*l of good. I tried to find it oat, but all I oould discover was that each bought a ticket to hear the other elocute. Elocution, to my way of thtnklng, is a mortal sin, and the enoonrsging of it by any olub Is dangerous. It is a fact that women as organized bodies are seldom successful unless they have, as their motive, the doing of some eharitahle work. The squabbles of church socleties are laughed at, the hospital com* mitUfe is made a subject of mirth, but, though them women may say mean little things among themselves, still they do tbeir work well and accomplish more than double what men would. Look at any of the religious institutions man aged hy women. Nine times out of ten they are out of debt, nearly or entirely self-supporting, and exquisitely clean.

WOXXN IN THOSE DRfcADFCL PAJAMA* The Independent woman Is very startling to the fire department. The idea Is of carrying her down the ladder in a

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long, white nightgown, witl her hair streaming and general limp air, which seems to say "You area man I am only a weak woman take care of me," She of the new kind steps out in striped silk pajamas, and the gallant fireman feels that the article is able to take care of itself, and he will look after the women and children. These psjarnw are like the masculine ones, except that they are in one piece, a ribbon holds them at the waist line, there is a frill of lace at the neok and sleeves, eyelets for the jeweled buttons, while the ends of the—of the—of the pantalettes are drawn around the ankles with ribbons and frills of lace, Fancy Romeo going up a ladder to tell of his love to Juliet in pajamasi Fancy the supremely feminine in this get-up Fancy anything you like in it, my dear man, but if any of your womankind incline toward it. set fire to It when it appears on the clothesline, and t^ke away theiir pinmoney.

The fashionable woman is achieving a carriage that gives her the air of a duchess. The rules for it are: Shoulders straight, head well back, eyelids drooping, and eyes looking out from under them as if they never saw anything BO low as the earth. It is most effective. A woman who carried herself this way showed a beautiful fan the other day at an afternoon tea. Originally, it was a plain, white wood one that cost, fifty oents. Now it would fetch thousands of dollars. On each stiok is the name of some oelebrity, and with the name is drawn something that tells of bis lifework. On one stick, just below the name of Alma Tadema is that of Edwin Burne Jones, who, after putting the dale below bis signature, drew the bead of the other artist. Tosti and Josefly each have drawn a bar of musio, wbile Qeorge Henohel sketched a tiny piano and a violin. Detaille drew, in miniature, a soldier, presumably of the Legion, while George Boughton, on tbe next stiok, sketched the face of a beautiful girl. Maurice Courant drew a ma rlne, and Luke Fildes gave a picture of an Englishman, who in point of shabbiness, compared well with Mr. Micaw ber. George Du l^Iaurier (he hadn't written "Trilby" then) was content,to sign his name in tiny letters, and so was Helena Modjeska. Bastien Lepage drew a tiny sketch of himself and tbe Bonaparte bee, while Mounet Sully wrote a reminder of "Pierrot," and everybody else added to his autograph something that was specially individual. Wasn't that fan worth having? fe'

This woman, with her dignified walk, had taught herself something else. She remembered what Dumas said: "No woman should ever laugh she may smile, for this gives to her mouth a graceful curve." He goes on to say that when a woman laughs she makes herself ridiculous.

ALLOWING BABY HABITS

People who have studied these things agree with the French writer, and it must be confessed that there is nothing prettier to see than a woman's lips parted in a smile, and showing between their redness glistening white teeth. Who doesn't remember Theo's smile? Who doesn't remember Judic's smile? But fancy if these women had been Japanese—and had, after the fashion in that country, shown gilded teeth! Or if, instead of being clear white, they had been, after tbe fashion of the far East,blackened! As a general thing, American women have pretty teeth but too often tbeir mouths are not well shaped, the result of overindulgent mothers per mltting babies to suck their fingers. One of the prettiest women in New York has coarse lips, for which she blames her mother as a ohild she was allowed to go to sleep with her tlii£mb in her mouth. Another woman whose lips protrude just in the centre also blames her mother for allowing her to find consolation in her two forefingers. If a child'can't be persuaded into breaking these bad habits, then its bands should be tied together with broad rib bobs. Schoolgirls have away of biting their lower lips, making them supersensitive, and spoiling the entire shape of the mouth. I speak of this because mothers are invariably blamed for permitting their ohildren todosuoh things, and some mother may take to heart what I sav about it.

It is very nice to preach to" mothers, to tell them how they ought to make their children behave, and how they ought to dress them and care for them. Good ohildren are the exception, I regret to say, rather than the rule. I don't like prigs among children, but I do like nice children. That small Boston boy who told his New York cousin that the way to spell "fuss" was "im-brog lio" Is a little too much for me, but I do like a well-mannered ohild. Tbe small girl who looks like an angel and behaves like a demon was met by me the other day. Her eyes were blue, her long curls were golden, and she ANSWSR8D TO THE NAME OF "CYNTHIA."

She insisted upon having some candy. She screamed for it, she kicked for it, she threw herself on the pavement and moaned nntil a crowd gathered around and called her mother hard-hearted, and sympathised with that angel child. Her mother flushed but never gave in, and after Cynthia had orled herself bofioe, had soiled the entire front of her w» ::««frock, she walked away beside her mother, conquered. And the only regret her mother had was, that the professional spanker's office was not near. At tbe same time, Cynthia In the fnture will be lees of an angei and more of a well-mannered child than If ahe bad triumphed. All mothers, however, are not like this one. In a large shop tbe other day there was a small child who objected to waiting while her mother did her shopping, they left, the child1tn

having a stronger will than her mother.

Later on I met them in a street oar the small imp had eaten candy, drank soda water and consumed bananas until she waa sick and cross. She wouldn't sit still, and her mother said tome "Marie is so sensitive that I dare not contradict her." Marie beard ber say this and an nounoed that unless she could play with her mother's watch she would scream herself into a nervous attack, Sbe got the watch. Now, what Marie wanted badly was to be taught that she had three meals a day and that sbe was to eat what sbe wanted at those times that when sbe went out with her mother sbe was to behave herself, and that tbe first time sbe threatened to scream herself Into a nervous attack sbe would be, per ujitted to do so,

I think it dreadful to frighten children, and any one who does it should be whipped, but I do believe in raising children so that they will be decentmembers of society and not general nuisances. Speaking of frightening children, there came under my observation not long ago a young girl who was so nervous that sbe scarcely knows an hour of good health, and this nervous neas was caused by the wickedness of a nurse, Years'before, when she was a baby, this girl's mother was called to tbe deathbed of a relation. Sbe went, leaviug tbe children in the charge of a nurse and there was also a cook in tbe house,

MY LADY'S UNEXPECTED RETURN. Tbe mistress said that sbe did not think she would be back until the next morning. It happened, however, that Bhe returned at midnight. In going up stairs with her husband, sbe heard tbe oldest boy, five years of age, and a girl of four, crying bitterly. In a second tbe mother was in the nursery. The little tots were crouched in a corner in their nightdresses, the light was out and tbe baby wasn't visible. As soon as be oould, between his sobs, the boy told this story: "Nurse and cook have gone out, and when Baby wouldn't go to sleep, nurse put ber in a cupboard and told ber that, if sbe cried, the rats would eat fcer, and she did cry, and sister and I would have gone to her, but we were afraid tbe rats would eat us." Tbe baby was discovered, unconsoious, in theoupboard, and when tpe doctor was gotten, he said that sbe had gone from one spasm into another as a result of the fright, and be did not know whether she would eyer get over it. For a year none of those children could be left alone, day or night, and the baby, now this girl of sixteen, has a nervous Kpell to-day if she is left alone in tbe dark. All that could be done was to discharge these wicked servants, and yet, I think they ought to have boen whipped and lynched. They had, of oourse, counted on the mistress not coming back until morning, on their getting home before her, and frightening tbe children ipto silence. A rpan who beard this story told—an Englishman, 42 years old, 6 feet 2 in height, with the shoulders of an athlete—said that, when he was a boy, he was told of bogy men and gbouls who eat up boys until, even now, although he knew it was nonsepse, he would trembleln the dark if he thought of them. All this is true. It is'hoped tbat tbene stories have adorned a tale, and it is most earnestly trusted tbat they will point a moral to people who believe that children can be governed by fright and made to do right because of fear. It is wrong, all wrofig, on the word of BAB

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