Show English Jlancerj In America We do not claim t have all the graces that come from generations of culture leisure and wealth but when you speak of the manners of English and French girls a being s far superior to anything we can show I would like to remind lk t rmind you I of some things I have met with among English people For example a distinguished tngl Englishman wag traveling in this country with his daughter This man was a renowned scholar and was supposed t be a gentleman He was very severe In his criticisms upon Americanmanneni and he did not spare us In any direction Our manners were ooriIi l our scholarshIp scholar-ship superficial our institutions badly managed our political organ motions very inadequateand lt though I aumlttlng our country was large and materially prosperous in his estimation estima-tion it was altogether a failure in everything that constituted dignity scholarship culture This gentleman Itn tleman was received by the best families ho was dined and wined and feted he was taken by our most iultlvated and scholarly gentlemen to visit 1 the cols and Ktate iustl tutions nothing in the wayof cordial i 1 n ed hospitality left undone Iluwas I dining with one of our best families one day and while at the table his daughter a young woman ot twenty or more remarked to herfatheruho nat on the onnoUe sidfof I thin table Papar this dinner I not as narsty as the dinner where we dined tarot For true loliteness could any American girl exceed this Anothei example there arc some I importable families who from urlnciplodo not use wlnu on their table An Englishman dinlugwllh 1 a family who had provided every luxury that the market could afford af-ford said l to the hOt Why do you not otRrr wine to your guests She replied I am conscientiously conscientious-ly t the use of wine opp I said I you do not use i yourself I do understand why you cannot proviuo I for your guests One mot An Englishman was Invited to dine with one of our mot prominent gentlemen who had provided a dish peculiarly American forth first course n fish > chowder the hot said courteously after they w ere seated at the table I shall oiler you a dish which I presume you will never find out of America I Is a favorite dish with us I tru tyou will enjoy i The guest tasted tho chowder gave his plate a little push and said I have tasted many concoctions concoc-tions in countries but I tlolln many counl never tasted aiothlug quite > narrty as thIs American lish of yourc yaw Margaret you may say the are exceptional casec Granted they are but I Insist that you could tIoL not find in America a westeru miner or n poor white from the everglades of Florida who would table mlk such remarks ata gentlemans A western miner might say if he wished for a potato chuck teen spud or a poor white might say tote them ynnmbut never to his host your ym Is nnrotyhrs Ctafun il April Wide Aicaie |