The Cellophane Society

October, 1957

American idiosyncrasies are legion for even a perennial English visitor like myself. No doubt all travelers find that certain customs of a foreign country seem perverse or illogical-expressions of a unique national psychology. Why do the French put chicory in their coffee? Why do we English drive on the left-hand side of the road and have such a complicated currency? Why do Americans...But perhaps only an American can answer the following riddles:Why is it that in America nearly everything comes...