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Show Current Comment THE AMERICAN WOMAN. Chicago Tribune. The National Liberal club of London paid a gracious compliment to American Ameri-can womanhood when it invited Mrs. Craigle to give a lecture, she being the first woman over accorded that privilege. privi-lege. The honor was particularly notable, no-table, coming as It did when two other prominent? speakers were declaring English society inexpressibly dull and stupid, not to say vulgar. But even more Interesting is the tribute paid by the lecturer to the members of her own sex In this country. She described them as perhaps the most striking product pro-duct of America, as persons, who in a country where the mingling of all races has been a marked feature of life, have developed a character which combines the beat qualities of womanhood everywhere every-where with something distinctly Amorl-can. Amorl-can. She found In the girls of America Amer-ica the union of delicacy, vivacity, and frailty represented In the paintings of the old masters, and in the girls grown to womanhood an extraordinary extraordi-nary activity in club life and in organizations organ-izations of every description, philanthropic, philan-thropic, social and educational. FINGERS AND CHICKEN BONES. Now York "World. Some of the boys at the Valhalla Farm school have run away because they were forbidden to use their fingers in "picking the bones" of chicken. This revolt against an oppressive tnble etiquette has both a gastronomic and an ethical Interest. Where do they draw the line between fingers and forks at Valhalla? Which do they prescribe for asparagus and which for game birds? Would the valkyries of table manners there be shocked to see squab wings in dainty fingers at Sherry's? Nice table manners, which are easy I of acquiroment by Fauntleroys. provoke pro-voke rebellion In dauntless young breasts which nre later to buck the rush-line or carve out careers as captains cap-tains of Industry. A charge of slovenliness sloven-liness in this particular was recently made against a British armv officer of high standing, and the retort was that the great Duke of Marlborough was a notorious offender on this score. |