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Show oo FRIVOLITY OF AMERICAN WOMEN. The American club women usually meet at one another's houses The houses ihemsclveB are the clubs The oidlnnry middle-class English woman has no conception of the feminine club life In the United States It is a distinctive American trait Nor does the typical English woman care for dress with the passionate longing that her American slater dlsplayn. Ccrtalnlv very right-minded Amorican Amori-can woman likes pretty and attractive attrac-tive clothes. But there Is a limit, which the American woman simply disregards. I have listened with amazement to feminine discussions In Now York about the proper width of silk lncos for shooa and other similar trivialities. The detail ol aigumeut nn American woman can uoc In discussing dis-cussing the width of shoo laces Is amazing: "Why should thcro bo so considerable consid-erable a difference between the women wo-men of the two countries?" I askod "I belloo the lmmcnsoly greater prosperity of tho average American family Is the, basic reason," replied tho piofessor. "Them can be no 'doubt whatever that -the Americans receive more higher earnings than do wo In England. The tariff system sys-tem of tho United States largely Is accountable for it. The Amorican women aro tho victims of protection." "In what manner9" I inquired. "Thov nro too prosperous. Thoy have too much idle time on their hands. You understand, of course, I am talking about the middle classes. The middle-claBS women of England havo to play a much greater part In the economy of tho houaehold than do the women of America. They have to attend more closely to the dutios of the home, for tho men cannot give them tho amount of money to run tho homes that Americans aro ablo to givo to their wives. Tho foreigners supplying sup-plying our English markets take too much from us for It to bo otherwise. Close attention to tho small details of home management Is necessary on the part of English women. This Is not the case In tho United States. Tho Amorican woman, thoroforo, has much less to occupy her thoughts at homo She develops in other directions. direc-tions. Sho becomes moro EolflBh, for there is not the necessity for tho development de-velopment of sacrifice to which all English people, raon as -well as women, wo-men, must submit while our earnings oro as small as they are "J. W. T. Mason, New York correspondent London Lon-don Standard. |