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Show AMERICAN WOMEN AS SEEN l BY AN ENGLISH POET. H The men of America have come to Hj the dead-end that the most successful H! materialism will end In and the future H! greatness of America will bo directly HJ attributable to her women, declares H Cecil Roberts, a young English poet in an article on American women appcar-ing appcar-ing in The Christian World, an Eng-lish Eng-lish publication. The writer pays high tribute to the women's clubs in the United States and. ho tells his British readers that they know nothing about American women and hear little except when the fl wife of a millionaire loses a valuable Hj necklace. Then he proceeds to call the I American woman the moat emancipated emancipat-ed and most Independent woman in the world. "America has got everything but a soul," Roberta writes. "There may be a soul to this vast, wondrously efficient effi-cient body, but it Is certainly very elusive elu-sive if in existence. Everything is brilliant, quick, hard, noisy, efficient, and self poised with determination in this land of mathematics and electricity. electric-ity. The men 'have little imagination, much common sense, and great ability and love of hard work. But they do not understand the subtle side of human hu-man nature, and therefore they do not understand their women." This failure to understand their woman, wo-man, the poet says, has resulted in the independent life the women lead. He j says they have as much money at their disposal as their men can make for them It seems strange to him that this independence and wealth have not resulted in disaster, but he says fortu-jnately fortu-jnately the American woman has done wonderful things with her wealth and ' independence. Then he tells about lec-1 jturing before women's clubs and he j is loud in his praise of the club woman. '. "As an audience I found them (the club women) the most discriminating,' the quickest wittcd, and the best from a lecturer's point of view that I have encountered here or in Europe," he (goos on. "They have a passionate singleness sin-gleness of purpose which mnkes them a penetrating power. Their organiza-: tion is careful and thorough," He tells how the" club woman takes ( up studies, picks apart and analyzes .the public questions of the day. "These reports," he writes, "weve-j splendidly presented .nor , was that i frailty, amiably but endlessly referred . to by man, in any way discernible. The discussions on the resolutions were j short, to the "point and models of political po-litical debate." He declares there is an Intense, in-iccssant in-iccssant desire for progress at any cost , displayed by the American club wo-'man wo-'man and this desire, he says, accounts ifor what he declares is the amazing' jatlendance at public lectures, and in conclusion he says that the women are creating the soul of America and are making human atmosphere and with it human history. i I nn i |