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Show MAONF.T FOtt AMERICAN Oinf-tt. I .s.,n, ., , Wh. ,i,., ... " rnslLhm.n. k ,f do" lh" American girl marry ne IlrltenT Haa ehe any adequalo lus.iit.tlon Do you suppose It pays jier sod can auch a choice on her part be Winded on large grounds as pro-tnou' pro-tnou' of tho greatest good of lha pesteit numbert la It a fact, as has Wjpantly suggested, that she !"" lo Ungland to gel country life """" e have no good roads hero yet, or, on the contrary, can It be demonstrated dem-onstrated that one reason our country roads are so bsd la that the American lrl cannot abide the country and proaptijr carried her man ott to town t tbs earliest moment that seea hla enoisvora blessed v. 1th the necessary Income? Is It her fault lhat country Interests tend too much to fall to the cats of a tesldunt that Is too poor to KM avay, or hss the country llfs not Dseh to do one way or tho other wlti her Ilrltlin propensities! To be hon it, there are other conceivable reasons tor marrying an Kngllsh gentleman bo-Idti bo-Idti his country roads. He may be a eUralng gentleman they are said lo bs so one. In a while who can win a wits by plain, personal courtship, and whom any woman might bs Justified In msrrrlng on general principles and I without specific excuses, or he may be a good "average" aort of man whose advsnlage over hla American brother Is a matter of else or complexion or hale appearance I have known American Amer-ican women who ventured to assert that ths feminine eye rejoiced more In ths tipe of mate human that treads ths pavements of I'lccadllly and Pall Mall than In the contemporaneous pedes-trains pedes-trains of Klfth avenue and Ilroadway. Or may bo It la hla auperlor stolidity that electrifies In the llrlton. It la to bs feared that there la no truth In that tile Mr Kipling or somebody waa telling tell-ing of how phlegmatic merchants of Us east bad discovered that the way to beat the American waa simply to put him off and let him fret hlmsell reckless. Stolidity Is not quite ths ssms as repose, but to persona who are suffering from an acute dearth of repose re-pose It may appeal as a tolerable substitute, sub-stitute, so that one can Imagine an American maid, worn with ths restless asplrattona of her high pressure countrymen, coun-trymen, turning with sincere relief to ptltow her fair young head upon a bosom behind which lurked no threat ct heart failure |