WAYSIDE STORIES
(New Discoveries, Vol. 1, p. 436.)
[Detroit Evening News, March 21, 1894]
Curiosity, says our Hindoo visitor, is the most conspicuous trait of the American people, but he added that it is the way to knowledge. This has long been the European estimate of the American, or more strictly the Yankee character, and perhaps the Hindoo’s comment was an echo of what he had heard the Englishmen in India say of the “Yankee.”