Life — January 5, 1893 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE = 23 M. A, WOOLF. Meu Lapy (gently): We are not all nervous and imper- tinent over here. Come visit us oftener, Mr. James. THE MipGe: Oh, who would say so cruel a thing about us? I've found everybody so kind in New York. Miss FAN (astéde to Life): A little Bohemian from the French quarter—that kind is alway They live in such a little bit of a world and have to help each other. THE EGyprian: It seems to me that all you American girls know too much. You have no illusions, no romance. In Scotland we still oc Miss Fan: How only happens in Bowery hote generous. asionally die for the man we love. horrid! Over here that sort of thing . among foreigners. Barrie: Ay. But what does the real American lass do for the man she loves with all her soul ? Miss FAN: her, and would not if he could, T! of you good people who write our novels. shallow in our artifices, and often so vulgar and impertinent. Really, don’t you see that the girl of the period uses fixesse We are Marries him, every time. He can’t escape at is why I don’t approve You make us so with sincerity? That is where you misinterpret. us. not artificial ; we simply combine the business tact that we inherit from our fathers, with the fidelity and religious in- stincts that we inherit from our mothers. comicbooks.com