America.

Manawatu Herald, 4 March 1899, Page 2

America.

Hall Came, the noted idealist, dramatist and novelist, has gone to America, and is making a tour of the large cities for the purpose, he say?, >f studying Blum life there. What he has seen thus fur seems to have produced happier results than that of Anthony IJupe and several other Eoglishmen who have recently •' done " America. He has broken oat in a pea in of prune far all things American —a sort of a love song in.^ prose. Ha loves America for itfjq bigness, aad it 3 people for their freedom, activity, industry, sobriety* generosity and responsiveness to true •entiment. Ho loves American men for their cbivaliy, and American women because tbry can combine uuquestioned purity wi>h frank un» oonvemionality aud fiaa independence. He is very much interested m the condition of American employed women, especially servant girls. He said to an interviewer : " You see these women by-the-by are to be married ; they are to become mothers ; th y are to develop into women and men. The men will be oitizsns. They will take part in government. Their intelligence •hould be of the highest order. This 13 only to be brought about by beginning with the mother to be. She must have her conditions improved, be better protected, better oared for, given more to live for, ensured that care and upholding that will enable the best in her to come out." Further along, in the same talk he declared : " The fate of a nation rests upon the woman. She gives to the child the most of its color ; more of her is breathed into the future citizen than it of the man ; she i 3 the inward inspiration of man's being. How important, then, that work for the improvement of her conditions should progress.