ENGLISHWOMEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 8 January 1912, Page 2

ENGLISHWOMEN.

“The Englishwoman, despite all her critics and detractors, is still the finest wife and mother in the world.” This is the opinion of Mr. Frederick Townsend Martin, American millionaire, and author of “The Passing of the Idle Rich,” which criticises the leisured classes of the world. “Why all this talk of England’s decadence when there is no sign of it?” ho said. “For forty years 1 have been a constant visitor to England, and have never missed spending the summer in your midst, and I can surely claim some right to judge. “As for the women of England, who are popularly supposed by Contbiental critics to loiter through a life of indolence and pleasure—where could you find a finer race? Take a country house-party—it is real, hard work all day, everybody is busy from daylight to dark. There is no idleness—the mother of all vices. “I take off my hat''to the women of England, and among them I include the American women who have married into English society, and have adapted themselves splendidly to the English model. “England has been through many revolutions, and each one has left her slrdngor and more united than ever before. She need not fear the present revolution, which will result in a closer understanding between the upper and lower classes, and greater unity and strength nil round.”