In another Letter to President Wilson, Mr. Page said of Sir Edward Grey, now Lord Grey: '"'He'd make a good American with the use of a very little sandpaper." It must not be assumed, howe hat Mr. Page found everything in England lovely. In_a letter written to his brother in December, 1913, he said of us English:—
They don't really like bathrooms yet. Toby prefer great tin tube, and they use bowls and pitchers when a bathroom is next door. The telephone—Lord deliver us!—I've given it up. You can't buy a newspaper on the street except in the afternoon. Cigar stores are as scarce as hen's teeth. Barber's shops are all "hairdressers"—dirty and wretched beyond description. You can't get a decent pen; their newspapers are as big as tablecloths. In this aquarium in which we live (it rains every day) they have only three vegetables, and two of them are cabbages.
How good it is to see ourselves as others see us—and how surprising But with it\all—the antipathy to bathrooms aid the insufficient cigar stores—the English to Mr. Page were "a fink race to be sprung from." In a letter to President Wilson he wrote: You and I can never be thankful enough that our ancestors came of this stock."
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