| Show C o I 16 icl it 4 1 I It 1 A LOOK AT OURSELVES A 11 the of a Prominent British I i I f11rough Eyes i t I Celtic I 1 No character Is I quite eo IntPrtlng the 1 fit ngllhmn I 10 thoughtful yet Lmerlcon It Is I eo 110 our un complex and yt so elm unlike eo k an 01 un lu Ie so Intellghle tol yet 0 lll11eult Ixpeoled lurn A Thy nre os < for v a eem to Ila men I I 10 depltt os Ingllhmen tou lit 10 do II It I it And if e tig era nn < best ik tilonsclouaness that nlter our I luU concloune will N it I IIIcts 01 the it tire lTorte man tO e Ila I ndencribeall Rut for unMcrl1 < W C 1 ItlU rmoln universal and i which ace peouUIIrltl w to modUS proloundlY Y I l keep enough at the hould say Ihat Rlt we H Character nation mOe clocl I y as 0 N Lmerlcon I I resemble Ihe English In Icland lhan I In tile world 11 any other people contest with eneAlen with I it 7 The long h bM with cIcumstance 4 nature hadno and Incn Inner 41 In them the 10 nrpoltlon which 01 yltlcllng aelty from Its J hat pocuUnr cute derives I ng habit 01 keeping down superio trib them a and exacting from 11 umbers In ROme here There In I dourno ute they American a Starts punas every themselves to which If you gt say he to luther Irogcs lown there III I no i node You II1Ut ush It to powder IV etreat and nine times out 01 tn re I I treat i ij found to Ie the easier course In fact character rot qt The American substratum which hna on been All of thdr valeceRs and a tile mastery 01 the 11 III give thm I I I vlrl atern homlphoe It Is not merel I the English dogsjedn rs though It I doubl1ess hal its root In It It 19 I 0 I quality which enables Its PPAPxrOr toro I to-ro on whatever happenlo charge A II were Instead of merely 81ao11n4 10 receive the assault 11 I In 1 IIIcl If We 11 are 10 be minute doggcdaes made I I I rim hy nn Infusion 01 hope 01 a Rang 1 Ulneno whIch you would never expect I I I ex-pect from all Amerlcnn Incethat 1 In climatic Iecullarlt I lavving to some usually careworn especially In the Ill which colors him very blood I In OUt Wo neVer met uu American live who did not believe ho should WOy through tiny tolllM on hand and reach al lat tivi poInt desired Ill however distant It might em to ho Like the Anlolrlhman also the American has 0 quick ene 01 the In tongruouho percelvT the comicality alike nr things and Iloon and lie I has a habit of pointing that out with a reserve shrewdness which has always I the effect of and sometimes really Is I 1 mordant humor Like the Anlolrlh 1 t too the American has a strong sense oCr 4 I dignity he 1 cannot bear Id Na I I Hilled and Is It Anything oversenta five on the core of his Individual claim to re ipect Ills pride is I not the glacial pride 01 the EIIIIhmBII who lit art hold the man who offends him to bo a boor fO dolllg It and would an soon quarrel with a cabmnn an with Ill him but to I a growing pride quick perhaps E per-haps oernulck to resent Insult and 10 J i Imagine wrong Add to thee traits all almost Innnite I depth 01 Inner hindnews I k Pe long no there is I M 1lOvooation still I 1 1 no resistance from Inflos and you have the Anglolrlh character on It strong sides and that la I ahx the Amcrl I 4 can about as efficient a character as the world presents to our view 1 Ire can light or he can bargain lie I 11 nn build or he can diplomatize and 11 when doing any of theRe things he generally I gen-erally contrives to come out at the top with perhaps jut a glance around to lee that the high pUce out of which he l emerges with unmoved countenance hat it been noticed by the world around We I 1 I should ndd for It Is I characteristic I though perhaps it Is I of little Import ti once that the manner of 0 wellbllo i American Is I uually land allowing Ir 4 Individual Idlosyncrnslen almost exactly 11 exact-ly that ot a wellbred AngloIrlthman I courteous and kindly with a touch of I Intended grace and with a certain patience as of ono necutomc 10 other mens folly which Is I not English at nil that Is I the testimony ot mankind to the Englishmans great perplexitybut the Americans patience and thai of the AngloIrishman leave a sensation not t always fully Justlfled of friendliness There are a hundred Lord Dufterlns In mlcll The American has however as we saw two peculiarities which differentiate differen-tiate him from all mankind We should I not call him a happy man exactly but I 1 i he la I an Incurably cheerful one The weight of the dozen Atmospheres which press down the Englishman Is off tho 1 Americans spirit lie does not expect I to find anywhere Perm no sups lor 10 himself he thinks ho cnn make Instead I I i In-stead of obeying etiquettes lie sees no on i 1 1 reason unless Indeed he Is I n candl I dint for his municipality or for Con i gresi 1 for professing to he l anything I but what he Is I He Is I quite contented oi1 us to his past and quite satisfied that 4 the future will go his way He lives I mainly In the present but as the Past i I 1 was good and the future will be better 11 I the present will do very well for the r limo holnl l noone has affronted P I him he has Itn Q tuarrel with anyone 11 any-one but Is I disposed to look on all men l 11 with nn appreciative smile as being all I 14 equally creatures of Allah poor crea lurea some of them no doubt but still 5 creatures He takes life as It comes In T fact with little concern whether anybody any-body takes It different and with n Ili complete admission not only from the thai It takes 1 lips but from the heart n good many sorts 01 men 10 make up 1 a world The conviction of oqualltj with all men his taken the social lid I I get out of him and glen him an Inner f ease unit tninlull ty never I tense Absent even when lit external smannersectatinvikivard cnlrnlnI It follows that he Is I always ready In try anything and that the English Idea of living In a groove seems to him I 1i Pro fined nnd mall n waste of the file r I uille that Ootl has given AIII It fol I I Ion also that hollllC 1 Inwarnv con 1I lent to mork with himself and hnln I n whole continent tn work III he IN I 0 seldom so thorough an the Englishman j r 5 is I satined with knowing many things i less completely than the Englishman 4 knows one and has for Intellectual I 11 I thai the I I temptation Always Providedthat task before him l not machine I mak 1 U Inc a certain shalloflems 111 1 The klnt of man vho 10 Int like an 1 American Is the kind of man about the British museum who knows upon someone I I some-one subject nearly all them Is I to know and can tell You almost to a foot whore 11 all that remains to be known will ulll it mately bo found We doubt If the American In I fuller 01 resource than the i nngllshmanwho generally has his plan at least but he Is much quicker In bringing his wits to benrand much less I I J disposed to let any habitude of mint Blnd for n mment In Ills way In I fact though the Amercan like every I other of his sons nf Ee Is I clothed In 1 r I habits he wears them with singular llRhlneiui and If Ws sense of proprlel I would permit i would on the smiles I I proocuton east them all away Th n I 1 ore only two exceptions to thai with an American his 1 I religion and the Constitution il I Con-stitution ot the United Stales Those 11 I Iwo are not habits nt all In the Carly J leon Person hut matter anti Inner kIM I There remains the rtrongeo atilt I 1 firnsigest pecularity of all vilitch nl road differentiate the American com ptetely from the Englishman anal n hundred years hence will make of him I an entirely separate being The l American IN I 0 nervous man In the sense In which doctors the study constitution constitu-tion use that word He Is I not neurotic neuro-tic no man loss I so and Is I probably As Lrave as any man livinarbut Site mMes respond more quick to his brain thAn tho of star other human bdng lie sf I T C feels condition We are strongly Inellned at and Ito to many lie suspect feel Americans everything that the ell mbles the condition or overtralned men nr hoco And that ncthlly our brain continued o-ur generations Is I In jurlou In a dry climate to biKlll Ialth He the cause what II may the American la liable to be excited I land his excitement wblch sometimes of lremendou itself In hunts hOa nts of Biyety ometlme in offegnYetlY nergy Incurahle uclry Ie In 01101 I out Imithall constantly wars him dlsllncton between iI I the greatest him and Ito more stolid Englishman oldest him And the w rattler between f English colonists the Anglo Irish mail |
