Through English Eyes.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10852, 29 April 1911, Page 5 (Supplement)

Through English Eyes.

Mrs Desmond Humphreys ("Kita")

is siomieiwhat sevel'e on the Americans! in lier ne^v book, "America Through English EVes." Tho only thing 1 she fcineiwrely ivdinired was Theodoi'o Blocse^lti. She deiv'oited herself to ."NVw York, Washington, and Boston. The first she found vulg-.u- beyond 1 \vo<i<da Silie wont to the Erexel-Gonld wfcddii?^. Theire were thous.anus of crazy, hysterical Women in F'ifili Avenue, struggling, fighting!, s.hriekin<*, in the pouring rain—ftnd all they saw was a commonplace young 1 man and woman g;et out of a motor car. Inside the church hcA been transformed into a theatre, ami there the select women fought with their umbrellas like wild cats. The American child is one of the saddest of being's. The little girls seem ti>

liave no hah', and the little boy is a weird reproduction in niiniature of the "fashion" ol' his papa. As the result of co-educaition, the one sex has no cliiv'alry and the oilier no icPoials. Americans, says "Rita." treat marriage as a jest or legal contract. They begin with a, show and end with a whow-up. In Ameiicia. you mai'i^y to <?et rid of your wife's society ; husband and wife seldom move in the same net, and if they odcasionally meet, often find each other quite interesting.