Show ENGLANDS CRITICS CRITICISED Doe Stage Lords nail Ladles Said to Ito Groin Ciilcnturcs Wo are not accustomed as a rule tn pay much attention to foreign critics Usually they fall into too many errors generally of a comic natureto deserve very serious attention Even our cousins across tho Atlantic have some strange notions of us They tare quite convinced that ro all dropor as they call it clip our Hs from members of the peerage down to the gentlemen busied in carrying carry-ing fish at Billingsgate It is one of their traditions and perhaps wo cannot expect ex-pect them to discard it from love of ao curacy In a comedywe mean a comedy com-edy not a burlesquerunning tho other day in New York two English lords arrayed ar-rayed in check coats over widely open I waistcoats displaying linen of that start ling brilliancy of color and pattern dent to the music hall artiste appear on the I I stage Quoth tho first lord who is carrying I car-rying a fox terrier under his arm to tho I second member of our aristocracy I Ullo Enery ow arc yer whereupon the whole house is convulsed with laughter laugh-ter at so delicious a joke Tho Americans are just now incensed with tho British istocracy because some of the wealthiest of their daughters have married nn equal number of our noblemen noble-men Their vengeance has been pitiless They have robbed even the pcciage of their aspirates OIl would rather exclaims ex-claims the transatlantic stage father for such a majestic parent is of course not found anywhere elso but on the boards of melodrama see my daughter married mar-ried to the poorest American citizen than to the richest English lord I At which splendid sentiment the audience thrills with patriotic fervor If therefore our own kinsmen speaking speak-ing the same mother tongue will not see us as we are but rather as they would have us be for their own glorification how are we to expect foreigners to un derstand us Wo aro disliked everywhere every-where throughout Europe just now ex sept in Portugal where we are execrated Our Bin cannot be expiated VVe would not permit that enterprising power to dance on our flag so with one voice our neighbors all cried out at once Go along why dont you hit ono of your own size We have often heard them say this before so wo are not very much ashamed and perhaps not quite convinced con-vinced that our foreign critics in the newspapers believe themselves all they writo about us in journals frequently at a loss for startling copy Preston Chronicle Chron-icle |