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Show GENTLEMEN WONT LIKE THIS ENGLISHMAN'S OPINION American Girls? Wonderful! American Men? Bores! expreae themselves. Thjr re minor expert on everything from child-rearing to art. It'i novelty for an Englishman to find women who are articulate on subjects other than draperies and nursery chorea, "American women go wherever their men go, and never seem out of place. "They really run their homes deciding how much la to be saved each week and who are to be the' next week-end guests. "After watching them go about their business gay-looking, trim, feminine It is a shock to go back to London. The average English woman by comparison looks appallingly ap-pallingly shoddy, has big legs and big feet, is wearing the very thing she shouldn't, and is wearing it sloppily." So, the man you are reading this to says: "Oh, he's just trying to get in good with Americans. Of course he Isn't going to find any fault with us." r - By KITH MQXKTT If you have a man handy, read him this. But don't expect him to like it - C V. R. Thompson, the Englishman English-man who wrote "I Lost My English Accent," that witty and aware book Americans are reading under soft lamps and in subways, puts cynicism cyni-cism aside when American women are mentioned and just beams. "They' are wonderful," be says without a single chuckle-provoking reservation, and willingly tells why he thinks so. "America Is not a man's country. It's a woman's country. And no wonder. "American women have decided minds and decisive tongues. They know what they think and how to American woman: ". . doeidad! minds. . . ." |