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I think it is indeed one of the hopeful features of the situation that nearly all our adopted citizens, who are themselves thoroughly Americanized, share strongly in this view. Indeed, many of them seem to realize the danger more keenly than do the native-born citizens. I was very much interested, at the New England Chautauqua the other day, to hear Mr.
Exclusive of the Penguin, there were seven classes, graded according to their degree of advancement. Our reception committee of the day before volunteered his services as guide, and took us from one class to another, making comments upon the nature of the work of each in a bewildering combination of English and Americanized French.
His questions, fortunately, were intelligent ones, and as he remembered with accuracy the answers given him and applied the knowledge thus gained to future conditions he made amazing headway in becoming Americanized. He got books and read them; he visited the churches, Library, and Art Museum.
Gone are the good old days, but the Americanized Sitka does not propose to be behind the times. I discovered a theatre. It was in one of the original Russian houses, doomed to last forever a long, narrow hall, with a stage at the upper end of it.
I explained that junks had been blown over to America for the last three thousand years, and that in my country there were many records of voyages to the Western land, ages before 1492. You see I soon began to be Americanized and to claim things. China discovered America and gave her the compass as well as gunpowder.
So Don Bolossi, Americanized to "Don Blossom," transferred all his affections to Sabella, and with the hand-organ, for which no claimant could be found, was added to the attractions of "Cap'n Cod's Great Panoramic Show."
It is not done that way nowadays. Panama is Americanized. You will need a pianola and an automobile." "And all the romance is gone?" "Oh, there is romance everywhere; there is quite as much in Pittsburg as in Andalusia. But to speak of more practical things" Mrs. Cortlandt hesitated slightly "I heard you tell the purser the other day about your financial troubles, and it occurred to me that Mr.
By this time their walk had led them imperceptibly to one of the gates of egress from the Park, and Heliobas, pointing to a huge square building opposite, said: "There is the hotel at which I am staying one of the Americanized monster fabrics in which tired travellers find much splendid show, and little rest! Will you lunch with me? I am quite alone."
To look at a Chinese slipper, one might imagine it impossible to shape the original foot to anything less cumbrous and roomy, yet a neater-fitting boot than that belonging to the Americanized Chinaman is rarely seen on this side of the continent.
Half a dozen Americanized Finns, who had evidently been the inspiring cause of this influx of new citizens, had come to the wharf to greet the new arrivals. They had the same short stature, the same stolid features, as their relatives on board; but there was a difference.
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