Chapter 5

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The Isolation of the United States--American Ignorance of the World--Sensitiveness to Criticism--Exaggeration of their Own Virtues--The Myth of American Chivalrousness--Whence it Originated--The Climatic Myth--International Marriages--English Manners and American--The View of Womanhood in Youth-- Co-education of the Sexes--Conjugal Morality--The Artistic Sense in American Women--Two Stenographers--An Incident of Camp-Life--"Molly-be-damned"--A Nice Way of Travelling--How do they do it?--Women in Public Life--The Conditions which Co-operate--The Anglo-Saxon Spirit again.