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Show 00 FOREIGN OPINION OF THE AMERICAN GIRL. ' i I The American girl is the subject lot an Interview given to a New York ' patter by Princess lxwensteln I j Worthclm. The princess doe not draw a very flattering picture. She 1 j says: "What a curious product 1 the American girl Her eneigy. which she doe not seem to be able to direct di-rect to one special purpose always is j seeking some other channel of activity. activ-ity. She has no ease. Even when reeling she Is moving, j Take your American rocking chair. She swings to and fro and craves for' 'roo-.cment even in her moments of I Immobility. The American girl is j a slave of fanaticism, of exaggora-I Hon She is a creature of extremes ! She either adores or hates Her 1 njnvments, her experiences are! 'cither 'wonderful,' corking' or 'horrl-l : ble' and 'stupid.' She will tell ou 1.. all seriousness chat she is in love with chocolates' and that the policeman at Forty-second street Is ndorable.' She has no power of deliberations ami less of consistency. She believes till In miracle, thinks that luck will or at least should decide- everything every-thing in her fnvor. which I suppose explains the many elopement marriages. mar-riages. She loves to be run away with Alter a couple of months she wants some one else to flirt with, and divorce follow Far from being a drawhock I believe be-lieve international marriages are a blessing for the American girl'' (sometimes to lhe foreigner as wellli 'Life m Kurope creates a different dif-ferent thought m the American girl. Those who can afford it should send their daughters abroad. They will bring home in this country something It needs hadly a little more beautv. something of ho easj crace and more of the ideal, which are found In Kurope Kur-ope ' The princess reminds one of giobe-trotter. who passing through a state on a fast train, writes a history of the people he has seen from the; car windows The lorelgn critic may j have described the girls she has met' In New York s society but she knows nothing of the plain, sensible, refined, modest American girl of he average Xmencan home The objections discovered by the princess applv somewhat to herself. indicating her choice of company. o doubt that. In high society in .New York, there is to be found the frivol-0,13. frivol-0,13. nervous. man-craz girl described describ-ed by this foreign visitor, but beyond thil set, In which pampering and idle, ness have produced the neurotic, 1 he J American girl is as gracefully charming charm-ing as the very best of European girls. The European girls, in the circle In which the princess moves, must be sad-featured dreadfully serious creatures, crea-tures, made so by "the don'ts" that constantly face her When accorded their freedom, perhaps thev are nearly near-ly on a level with the American girls who marr counts and no accounts. |