Show I The Best War Entertaining Borne of the more agreeable fea lures among the English social cue toms moot appreciated by foreign ers especially by Americans arise from this selfish national character btlc of selfsufllcieucy this Doric reticence and Insularity Anillus tration in roint is the vernge treatment of n guest in a country house To put guwts at their ease I ihoulu be the aim of every enter taluer This end Is perfectly I ac coinplbhtxl England Theabl Ity seems Inborn but it I frequent arises not from a scour of propriety and true politeness as when seen in I Americans but really from an Isolating racial selfchnesa by virtue of which an Individual Insisting upon being let alone himself allows 2mrd by neglect the name pleasure me pun WorkS well it works naturally And the opposite Ideal of entertainment seen In America and equally characteristic of the people works ill namely the tactless struggle to en tertain the nervous anxiety a guest always encounters in a host who fears he may suffer from enuul If every moment 100 not fllld forhlm This Is exasperating It renders avenge av-enge entertainment In America In tolerable to one who has tasted the delightful independence of the unencumbered un-encumbered hours in English country Tiouse |