Show AMERICAN FAULTS En English Critic Declares They Are I Those of Youth If w Va analyze analyse e. e the worst amon among the characteristics which I t ha have 0 called American we find hypocrisy v. v sentimentality cruelty and boastfulness and they are ara all aU qualities whir whir-h in in the individual individual in in- are are characteristic of imma imma- imma- imma An American is in truth very verv like a a child at th the awkward age exhibiting ex- ex ex cx hh t her faults faults' very Cry patently 1 and nd hiding her virtues If one accepts this as the tho explanation of many of these defects they thee do not appear so ver en formidable after all aH Childishness 0 30 o long as it does docs not outlive outlive- its proper time tinie is is not a fault it is s a condition and perhaps it would show a more just discrimination d to regard these defects which I have hine mentioned as symptoms rather thau than as qualities The Ameri Amen childish in every everything thins in in th th their ir r simp simplicity city of heart in the gusto guto with wit J which they themselves to life in in their adherence to artificial and und imposed im posed standards of conduct in their tendency to talk too mu much h and too much about themselves in their profound and admirable curiosity in their wholehearted wholehearted whole whole- hearted desire desiro to imitate or acquire alquire what they admire in other othE people popl and d. at th the same samp time in their innate dis clis distrust is trust of p people who iI Ho 1 o not t think think ox- ox iIi nn Trai Trait Trails as us they do o.- o. i b. b by Filson lon Y Voun Young z i ill i t till the hi l I oci M t i l ne |