The daily sentinel., 1908-01-04
NEWS AND VIEWS
OF new YORK CITY
blue Monday for the Old Town When Ihaw Trial Again
Starts up-Critcs Of American Women There Will
be No Vanderbilt Wedding "A Spicy, Refresh
ing Letter Of Doings in the Metropolis

his back. The American woman Is
a fiirt and a hypocrite. as well as a
!, goose"
4 Isn't that Disseminating. really?
Here are we poor. downtrodden.
heartbroken American meL. playin &
the role of the victim in the tragedy
of the cat and the mouse, and we
didn't know 1t until this kind French
man happened along and impaired
the Information. We were hugging
the fond delusion that our women
folks were all the candy. and that
they had the feminity of all other
nations faded to frizzled FRAGILE.
only to be rudely awakened and told
that 'tis only a pipe dream. And NJ.
Ular heartlessly fails to tell us what
to do to be saved from these fair
tyrants who are breaking our hearts
and our bank accounts.
But what NJ. Ular had to say was
mild and tame compared to the opin-
ions expressed by Mrs. Elinor GlyL.
based her opinion of Yankee women
ON visit to a party given by the
Pilgrim Mothers. With all respect
for the Pilgrim Mammas. it may be
whole United States. although 1t is.
in sporting .parlance, cinch that
they would compare more than fav-
orably with any similar aggrevation
of our English sisters.
Listen to Mrs. Glyn:
81 went to the Pilgrim Mothers
party because I was told that l would
Z meet a lot of brainy women and be-
cause knew it would be scream.
And 1t was a scream. a huge one.
Once inside the room | thought my
legs would give way. Never in my
young life have / seen such an ag-
gregation of dowds. tabby gats and
frumps. Bless my soul. what a
crew they were, A lot of breast
less. slab-hlpped. pancake footed
frights of things that went at their
fodder tooth and claw. and licked
their stubby finger tips after they
were through. l turned and saw a
fat. old. dough-faced trump and an
other creature that seemed to be no
sex at all. 1T" was as plain up and
down as a pickerel ana had a rough
hewn draymens face, but l conclu-
ded that it called itself a woman.
from the fact that 1t had a tiny blue
velvet toque on top of its block of a
head"
Aud after this outburst Mrs. Glyn
added
"Oh. those dear, delightful Pilgrim
Mothers, Why. to look at them. Il
they didn't placard themselves hs
mothers" anybody in the world
would suppose they were perfectly
moral
Say. Bo, (excuse me, | can't help
1t, l was once a sporting editor)
how is that for language, hot from
the bat? Isn't this Glyn person all
to the ginger when II comes to empt-
ying out the dictionary? With that
fiow of unrestrained langwidgt. a
a sporting editor would have his
fortune made. what?
feel that Mrs. Glyn should be
called down and that Immediately
AS for me, beg to pass up the job
A woman who uses that good old
Anglo-Saxon word leg" in prefer
ehce to limb" is not to be challen-
!; ged lightly to duel of words.
No Vanderbilt wedding.
Excuse these tearsi The marriage
of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and Count
, Szechenyi. which II was once rumor
} ed would finally take place about tn,
} middle of January. is now apparent
ly off. Alas. for loves young dream
Alas. that the Szechanyi family
which is one of the Oldest in Hun
gary, should have to continue t.
ride in hired carriages and go hun
CRY to its ancestral bed.
Il According to reports from Buds
Pest. which are no more unreliabl,
than the hundred other rumors, tn,
, hitch Is over the price count is t,
receive for his title. 1t is alleged
that the twelve million dollars which
/ Miss Vanderbilt has in her OWE righ
r were not sufficient to satisfy the mod
4 est demands of the counts RELATIVES
> and that Reggie and Alfie Wander
bilt were expected to sit into thu