THE AMERICAN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19964, 4 December 1926, Page 21

THE AMERICAN.

POPULAR WITH LADIES. “Ladies prefer Americans,’’ said Ethel Mannin, author of “Sounding Brass.” “We hear so much about the American woman and her loveliness and charm. I have yet to meet the Englishman who could order flowers for his lady without being selfconscious about it. But the American is like the Latin in his complete lack of selfconsciousness. When an American gentleman admires a lady he sees to it that she is paid tribute florally as well as verbally, and he does it as effortlessly and as naturally as he takes his hat off in the elevator. “Another charming point about the Americans is their punctilliousness over the small courtesies of life. In addition to being the most hospitable people in the world, I hereby wish to place it on record that they are also the most polite. The American is ‘always the gentleman.’ “It was a French dressmaker who said that it takes an American woman to wear a Paris model to perfection. Perhaps it is on the same principle that the really well-dressed American man is the lastword in masculine distinctiveness. True, he will generally insist on wearing a straw hat with it, but that is to an American what the English ascent is to an Englishman—he just can’t help it. “And then, the American male has re markab'.y good teeth He takes trouble with himself. He knows what an oranee stick is for and the sweet uses of peroxide, and he doesn’t go about smelling of whisky or cigars, althou eh he drinks as much whiskv nrobaMv—in spite of Prohibition—and certainly =rnokes move '’'Tars than the average Englishman. He is essentially an hygienic creature.’ 5