Show TH THE E AM AMERICAN E ICAN WOMAN rs Craigie who e pen name Is John liver Hobbes Jobbe lectured to the National Liberal society in England recently on what she had INId observed in ift America a a late visit on this side Mrs rd is American born but has spent a good part jart of her Ute life in Eng England England land She declared there were few men in hI Ch o and New York who were ere content to lIve in no matter what their me means as or the temp temptation tation to u useless ee leisure American lilen as 52 a 8 rule she said are not con cont content t tent nt to Ite he without and von ven the r of them die of tenor from overwork and worry than from the rust of Idle dissipation Commenting on the American type which has baa developed by the admixture of f races att and the environment ot of the new world she observes The uThe temperament ot of the American people is of the p past st age ge their faces and feAtures belong to another period They su suggest est the old masterS r i saw people constantly who mIght ha have 0 been the originals of portraits of Rembrandt or Jan Steen girls with types of countenances associated with the French before the revolution with the same combination of delicacy vI vIvacity vivacity and anc frailty Among Amont modern Europe Europeans ns these thee are ver very the moat meet tot r of the products of America Is Its women tile take little or no in ill political affairs hUe they if over show the least interest In tile the business or professional work of their male relatives they shoW an extraordinary activity in club life and In or organization of every eory description phi I foe l pd tInn of so luany ru produced a Woman oman haUng s something In U all the and 1 something hl hi hcan be defined as American Part art of this description may be ac accepted accepted as accurate but If f Mrs Craigie had come further west she would have noted that American women take a keen Interest In politics and public affairs and their interest has a practical practical weight not to be overlooked by bythe bythe the candidate for tor public office or the Incumbent of political place Her be belief lief Ilet that the American woman takes comparatively little interest In her husbands business affairs is probably true so far as it applies to the large majority The French woman for tor instance knows infinitely more other of her husbands business than most Amen merl can women know ot of such things and the comparison Is not altogether to the advantage of the sister But when Jt It comes down to real comparIsons Mrs Craigle Craigie concedes the charm the Intellectual acuteness the unfailing attractiveness of the AmerIcan girl in terms which every American man will Indorse without qualifications She has the keenness of the Colt Celt the substantial frank good sense ot of the the good taste of the Gaul and the do domestic mastic skill of the Added to these she he has a sense of humor pe peculiarly American which Is the spIce of 11 life fe the saving raving grace In hi trial the very ery savor of existence i I iI |