Life — May 5, 1921 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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SUPPOSE that of the Americans who cross the Atlantic to visit Europe, the majority are bent upon pleasure and pure travel and the minority on business; whereas with the English who go to America, the reverse is the case. Very few English are attracted by America as a land to wander in for the joy of sceing admiring. But absurd this is! and how The English are just as much in need of a new country to study as the Americans are in need of the Old World to rest them- selves in: those who retain any capacity to rest themselves any- where! If the great lure of the Old World to the Americans is its Old Worldliness, there should be a similar at- traction to the Eng- lishman in the New Worldliness of — the New. I am convinced that it is as important for an Englishman to see New York as it is for an American to see London or Paris. The Yellowstone Park is as well worth visit- ing as Venice, and Niagara as the ca- thedral at Chartres. For every American who goes to Strat- ford-on-Avon, an Englishman should go to Mount Vernon. For American every who The Sedative and the Tonic By E. V. LUCAS “ America,” a traveler was saying the other day, “is too democratic for me. I'll give you an example. I went to have my nails done in a big manicure saloon in New York, and all the time the girl at- tending me was talking to the girl at the next ch In London that would be im- possible: each girl would be giving her YAMET WONTEOMERY FLACe THE FIRST STEP id friend to cute You're taking up art, Id Had your first lesson, “Yes, Mil tell the world so— Don't you see?—it was bobbing my hair!” Florence Adair, plaining of a certain leisureliness and formality in English life, and failing to realize that it might be very good for them as a remedy for too much restless. That should be part of value to the over-hustling, The American who said to the guide at the British Mu. seum, “ Now understand, I want to see everything, but I don't ness. want to see anything twice,” was not the best type of tourist. It is scamper throu land. England, for the Ame be a sedative, and America, for the Eng- absurd lishman, a tonic, Problem ITTLE girl (watching her mother spri furs with powder ng her napthaline and placing them away in the cup. boards) : What do you do that for, 1 “To keep the moths away, dear.” “Why?” “ Because moths eat other? clothes, dear.” “Were there moths in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve lived there, mother?” “OF course, dear.” “Well, what did they eat, mother?” New Stuff “ HAT shall we reveres the Invalides, n Englishman should revere the Lincoln Memorial at Washington, that superb and dignified temple. It is as important for an Englishman to see Fifth Avenue as it is for an American to see Westminster Abbey; not merely because Fifth Avenue’s trafic but to absorb some of the vitality of that thoroughfare and to study the a farers and the efficient shops. Even more so it is a good educative thing for the English to taste the savors It is the kind of corrective now so perfectly under contra ert way- of a Republic, that many of us need, individual Such versations would not be tolerated.” client her care. cop- “Were your nails badly done?” T asked. “No,” he said, “I can't say that they were, irritated.” “Perhaps,” I said, “that is one of the reasons why America is good for us—to but I was nervous all the while and wean us from such impatiences and get some of the feudal superstition out of us. It was only a reminder that Jill can he as good as her master and that the world does not topple if she is.” Similarly I can imagine Americans com- say of this Rep- resentative in Congress?” “Oh, say he's a two-fisted American” “p But it’s a lady.” A Rising Star R you have an infant prodigy ia your fami ave we.” “Indeed. Who is he “Grandpa.” EVILLE: Is ready for the fishing seasc Butuek: Well, enlarging device for his camera. Glenshaw getting T saw him buying av comicbooks.com