Show US FADS somo of tho forms has taken people who boio are aggressively american in england anil and pronouncedly ung english in Ainer amello lex aping foreign aristocracy those thoroughgoing thorough going out and out americans who think that undo uncle S sams ims citizens bulit ought 0 to be americans first last and all the time will probably ay be bet to thinking by the criticism thata eliat a member of actress loie fullers company brought over from england last week some americans said the actor A 4 are aggressively american when they are on the other side bide and pronouncedly english 0 when they get back home again the thespian who the now new york sun says thinks america good enough for any aidy man had been making a philosophic study of a certain class of american travelers who are the butt of ridicule when they get back from a E european trip namely the they tire arc beginning to congregate on the promenades and in the hotel and theater lobbies these afternoons and they make themselves ludicrously conspicuous by the exaggerations that they introduce into the english mannerisms of dress and idiom that they strive to copy they have come home with the same old extraordinary fondness for carrying their arms al akimbo cimbo as if they were loosely hung to the shoulders by springs 1 they cover their heads with hats that are most woefully unbecoming rr carry their gloves in one liand hand instead of putting them on put on the toothpick slices shoes and display other peculiarities that have barbed the satirical pencils of the caricaturists these are lim however ever only a part of the disagreeable peculiarities that some of the returning swells take delight ta in foliating upon public attention the most striking idiosyncrasy that these persons have brought over is what is ea claimed aimed to be the very latest proper caper dont you know it has hasteen been called the I basso prof uno p ro renunciation n uneca and those who have heard it declare that it beats the record for absurdity tt consists of the drawing of words with the most tedious deliberation and sinking a the voice very deep indeed an american who heard this extraordinary affectation sought an explanation and got it in the statement that it was considered clever to conceal the somewhat sharp nasal pronunciation that many americans possess and which the londoners Lon doners had got so accustomed to that they could distinguish americans anywhere by this style of utterance to escape the comments of the englishmen these gotham swells divided ordinary words into as many syllables as they possibly could and pronounced them with a deep and monotonously long 0 drawn out drawl for example the name charles which is spoken sharply and decisively by most americans became a guttural chaw acs les it was tho the same with by jarve and how dyo dye daw and a hundred undred li other commonplace exclamations nobody has been able to discover why tho the swells do this sort of thin thing nobody alivo alive and in his senses talks in that style in england and the pronunciation nuncia tion always caused a smile when used in new york thre threatens aters or hotels hot els some of the slang that the dudes have bave brought 0 home to throw around to the consternation of everybody is unusually comical this year most of it appears to have been picked up in the london music halls and is of the kind hind jenny hill introduced to american theater goers some months a ago 0 0 at tony toiv they dont say baggage an moro more as they used to it is loot look after me luggage a good fellah they speak of their clothes as some togs D got on the alie other side me boy they are a bit fuddled cuddled fudd led dont you know when they have taken more liquor than is is good for them their 44 money has bas become brass and worst of all the guardians of tho the peace have bave become lobbies |