Tips for Tourists

For Britons planning to brave the terrors of tourism in the New World, especially to see the "exhibitions" in New York and San Francisco, the Manchester Guardian's New York correspondent last week sent to his paper timely warnings and encouragement :

>Do not regard Americans "as just transplanted Englishmen. . . . The differences between the American and the British temperament are profound." Americans most resemble Frenchmen though they are a little like Russians.

>Never try to speak his native slang to an American: it changes every six months. "Almost innumerable groups" of Americans "have languages of their own."

>Touch gingerly on the subject of the World War. The average American is "greatly disillusioned about it."

>"It is wise not to praise American skyscrapers to informed citizens of the United States except on esthetic grounds. The skyscraper is regarded as a bad mistake. It is unlikely that many more will be built."

>Do not refer to U. S. trip as "coming out here." "To the American this suggests he is on the periphery, a provincial, perhaps even a colonial. . . . The truly ingratiating phrase would be 'over here.' "

>"Every train that a tourist is likely to use is now air-conditioned. . . . Many of the leading hotels in the chief cities are also air-conditioned. When they are not, a firm request that all the heat be turned off and kept off will usually help."

Final warning: Look left when crossing a street. "You will live longer."

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