The eagle., November 06, 1895, Page 14, Image 14

About The eagle. (Silver City, N.M.) 1894-1???

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TMBUTE TO AMERICANS.
An Englishman's Opinion of Yan
kee Tourists.
Our Good Dollars Are Very Welcome to
European Tradesmen A Warning;
Suggestion to Those Who
Bush Abroad.
At last comes a bit of appreciation
from a source whence it has long been
withheld. A young Englishman, who
has been doing the rounds of the Amer
ican cities, writes home hi praise of us,
and, better still, an English weekly,
the Gentlewoman, publishes it, as fol
lows: "The Americans I simply love;
they are so wonderfully sympathetic
to one. There is no trouble they will
r.ot take, or personal inconvenience j
.hey will not suffer, if in any way they
can render one a service." The name ot t
;his extraordinary young Englishman,
is not given or it should be blazoned
forth.
The weekly paper, in reproducing;
Mie extract, takes its cue from it, and
urges Londoners and all English folk ,
o appreciate the "boundless kindness ;
and hospitality which they (Amer-,
icans) heap upon us," and be ready to
"receive the strangers right royally"
in return. It calls attteution further
to the unprecedented influx of "men
and women from all parts of the
'.'nited States" who are now crowding,
..ml will for the next nix weeks crowd, i
..ondon, and then separate for wander-!-gs
all over England, and. makes a
plea that they be well treated. There ,
!s a bit of policy in its concluding ad-i
uee, which every one who has suffered
the extortionate impertinence of the
London tradespeople an imperti
nence none the less because it is often
enveloped in fawning servility will
say a hearty " amei." to: "In these
bad times of depression in trade, it
would be as much to our advantage
as to theirs, not only to welcome, but
retain the Americans in England as
long as possible. Not all Americans
are rich, though most are generous.
We are sadly in need of their dollars,
but need not be extortionate, for all
that."
One is provoked and indignant to
think of the thousands of dollars these
'crowds of Ameiicaiis" will spend, not
only in Euglnnd but through Europe,
before the autumn v.ll send them
home again. Provoked because many
of the thousands will go for 'thing;;
that will be bought ui.dt i the impres
sion that if they aie the sume price
they are better than can be bought ot.
home, while, if they are cheaper than
the same goods here, it will still be sup
posed that they are of the sume
quality.
A woman buying gloves in Paris
last summer wns surprised at the price
charged her for the make of glove
she was accustomed to buy for con
siderably less in New York.
"Ah, mndame," said the glib shop
girl, "but we send only our 'seconds'
w .New Vorli." ur uns wit- I
wholly untrue. It is absurd to sup-
lose that skilled American wholesale
uyers are going to bo imposed upon
,-ith seconds of : v'nLT. much less
.iioves, whose qua.. i known quan
tity every time t'' . expert in the
trade.
The same woman's experience in Lon
don was similar. Prices were always
equal, and often greater, than in New
York, but stress was invariably laid
an the superior wearing qualities, a
stress that wns expensively disproved
:i the case of most articles. Tourists
"rom this country are looked upon
abroad every time as geese to lay golden
figs. They are geese to give their gold
for the value they get, nine times out
of ten. V. Y. Times.
Kash Declarations.
"I never heard a young girl say, as
young girls are often :ond of saying,"
observed an old lady on the summer
boarding-house piazza, "what sort of
a man she will marry and what sort
o :ly, that I do not think of certain
speeches to which I myself have
listened from pretty lips before this.
A school friend of mino so held New
Jersey in djtjstation that she tore its
map from her gjopraphy. She used to
say that nothing woul.l induce her to
marry a man who w is a widower, or
wore a wig, or lived in New Jersey.
And tii j man of her ciiolce was guilty
of all three of these enormities. I
used to tak over my future with two
cousins. I would not marry a business
man, I said. Kate would not think of
:i clcr' y man, or Carry of a fanner.
And we married respectively, a busi
ncss ma'!, a clergyman and a farmer,
ft is all like a smart young American
help' in my grandmother's kitch.-n,
who was wont to declaim to us chil
hvn o:i the scun in which she held all
men, always winding up her denuncia
tions of the sex by: 'No, I wouldn't
marry nnv ma i that walks on two
legs.' And sli.Mli.l.i't. She married a
one-legged man!" X. Y. Times.
HIS FUTURE OCCUPATION.
One Bad Boy Thought He Would Drive a
Coach and Trench.
' Ex-Attorney General Miller was born
and spent his early life in a small New
York village. At the little school
house where he first learned to read
and play "hookey," says the Indian
apolis Sentinel, there was a fellow
pupil who, although about the same
age as Mr. Miller, was noted through
out the village for his pure cussedness.
That boy, according to Mr. Miller's
statement, would sit up of a-night to con
coct some scheme to make the people of
the town miserable. lie would chase
the cows, stone the dogs and pigs, put
ropes across the path at night, set pins
on the seats at church and scare the
wits out of all the old maids for a mile
around. AYhenever any devilment was
done it was laid at the door of this one
boy, and usually correctly. At school
he was a terror to all. Stubborn and
defiant, there was no restraining him,
and the schoolmaster was in despair.
One day he thought he would make a
last effort to reform the. boy by argu
ment, and he called him up to the
desk.
"Now, Tom," he began, "you are a
bright fellow, but you are spoiling
your future. Just think what yon can
make of yourself if you only behave
yourself. Now, have you ever thought
of what you will do when you grow
up to be a man?"
The boy looked at him for a moment,
and then, picking up a straw from the
floor, he picked his teeth for a moment,
as though in deep thought.
"Yes," said he, "I 'lowed I would
drive a coach an' preach some."
TALK AS YOU EAT.
Qu mccock St RiU'fty.
I once reared a gamecock by hand,
keeping him secluded from his kind
until he was uiiult. 1 then placed him
n a large collection ol barnyard fowl
where there were half a dozen mongrel
jocks, a i.ri Ice f the muscovy variety,
cvcral f tinders and two turkey gob
'. lers.' Immediately and in rapid sue
c: sion he settle ! his accounts with
t.'.ie mak's of his own kind. He short
ly ovoreauie the drake unci tho guilders.
.!o the:i .levulu.l what was left of his
.'oives to hauling with tlio turkeys,
ik'i-j he found himself in great dilli-
i'.ty, .or the reason that these great
ilrdt would seize him by the head and
lit his body off the ground, llow
vor. he soon learned an ingenious
rick, whicli protected hira from this
anger. When gathering breath in the
alervals between hisassaults ho would
over himself between his antagonist's
keeping step with the awkward
:vature in its eil'orts to trc.tawavfrom
In This Instance Your Topics Are Chosen
for You.
The latest fashionable fad is the con
versation luncheon, which is not to bo
despised as uu up-to-da '. e mode of en
tertaining. Small tables are-used, and
at each guest's plate besides the name
card is placed the menu, with a topi j
of conversation wriltii beside each
course. All convors.it ion except that
pertaining to the specLI subject is for
bidden, and in many cases this re"tri -tion
itself makes the liruhcon a very
jolly affair. At a recent, conversation
luncheon held at Newport the subjocis
chosen for conversation were as iol
lows: With the iced boni.lon the giicsls
discussed the questio:i: "Is the mascu
line idea of humor a s rt of hors.i
play?" The conversation with the ilsh
treated entirely of "the new woman
and the way in which she will clothe
herself." The entree was eaten while
bicycle tales were being told. Vith the
salad was discussed the college-bred
girl. Frozen fruits were eaten while
the conversation turned toward the
weather, and the coffee was sipped
during the intervals of a heated dis-
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