But As Regards Our Own Revolution,
They Aren't Quite Sure Whether It Was Started By The Boston Tea
Party Or Mrs. O'Leary's Cow.
Languidly they inquire whether that
quaint Iowa character, Uncle Champ Root, is still Speaker of the
House?
And so the present Vice-President is named Elihu Underwood?
Or isn't he? Anyway, American politics is such a bore. But they
stand ready, at a minute's notice, to furnish you with the names,
dates and details of all the marriages that have taken place during
the last twenty years in the royal house of Denmark.
Some day we shall learn a lesson from Europe. Some fair day we
shall begin to exploit our own historical associations. We shall
make shrines of the spots where Washington crossed the ice to help
end one war and where Eliza did the same thing to help start
another. We shall erect stone markers showing where Charley Ross
was last seen and Carrie Nation was first sighted. We shall pile
up tall monuments to Sitting Bull and Nonpareil Jack Dempsey and
the man who invented the spit ball. Perhaps then these truant
Americans will come back oftener from Paris and Florence and abide
with us longer. Meanwhile though they will continue to stay on
the other side. And on second thought, possibly it is just as
well for the rest of us that they do.
In Europe I met two persons, born in America, who were openly
distressed over that shameful circumstance and could not forgive
their parents for being so thoughtless and inconsiderate.
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